Game 1, Round 9 - Literature: The Horse in Literature

 
1. What book features the Houyhnhnms (h'WIN-ems)? That's spelled 
H-O-U-Y-H-N-H-N-M-S.

Gulliver's Travels 

2. What horsey bestseller became a movie that helped launch a star's career? 
It also featured Mickey Rooney.

National Velvet 

3. Whose horse was Rosinante (ro-sin-ON-tay)?

Don Quixote 

4. Mickey Rooney also appeared in the 1979 film version of Walter Farley's 
best known book. What is it?

The Black Stallion 

5. What horsey novella by John Steinbeck sometimes appears on high school curricula?

The Red Pony 

6. What play by Peter Shaffer won the 1974 Tony award?

Equus 

7. What former jockey and prolific novelist did in fact write at least one 
novel without horses in it? 

Dick Francis 

8. Which bestseller protested against the often cruel treatment of horses, especially 
working horses, and was the only novel its author ever wrote

Black Beauty 

9. The Pulitzer prize winning author of Moo also wrote Horse Heaven, 
which is set in the world of horse racing. Name the author.

	Jane Smiley

10. Strangely, the horses that are instrumental to the achievement described in the 
poem "How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix (pronounced EKS)" are given 
no credit. Who is the poet?

Robert Browning