So this is probably more about me trying not to be an “I told you so!” know it all type and less about actual horse trivia, but my barn had a holiday party tonight with a horse trivia quiz.
My team had no clue on the LOTR, Harry Potter, or Toy Story questions, we nailed a bunch of other questions.
One question was, “What US show jumper has the most Olympic medals? And how many?” One team mate immediately said Beezie Madden and I said no. We tossed around a bunch of names - Joe Fargis? Anne Kursinski? Leslie Burr Howard? I was convinced it was a woman but not Beezie and we were all just throwing out names and finally were just like “McLain Ward has gone to a lot of Olympics and definitely has medals. It’s not him, but whatever” So we put down Ward and picked a random number (6).
The accepted answer was Beezie Madden and 4. And I felt bad about directing my team away from the correct answer.
I just got home and started googling because I am a curious sort (and the quiz was generated with AI and I do not trust AI). Beezie does indeed have four Olympic medals. Courtesy of Paris, McLain now has 5.
I am posting here instead of the barn chat because no one likes a know it all and it truly does not matter. I just think it’s funny that I gave an answer that I was sure was wrong and was marked as wrong, but it seems like I was right?
Anyway, anyone have any good horse related trivia?
