20 Racing Questions: films and fiction
20 Racing Hub Questions – films and fiction
Welcome to the third in the series of Racing Hub quizzes, each one on a specific theme – in quiz number three we tackle films and fiction
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1 – What was the name of the racehorse hidden by the inmates in the film The Belles of St Trinian’s?
2 – In which Carry On film did the budgie Joey, owned by the character played by Sid James, pick the names of winning racehorses?
3 – What was the name of the character, an injured ex-jockey who became a one-armed private detective, who appeared in four of the novels written by Dick Francis?
4 – In the film Champions, who played the part of trainer Josh Gifford?
5 – In which Sherlock Holmes short story does the detective refer to “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time”?
6 – Who wrote the novel National Velvet upon which the film starring Elizabeth Taylor was based?
7 – Who performed the theme song to the short-lived BBC TV series of the early nineties, Trainer?
8 – What do the racing themed films Dry Rot, Make Mine a Million and The Rainbow Jacket have in common?
9 – Which race features in the film The Yellow Rolls Royce and what was the name of the fictional winner?
10 – Who are the authors of the following books
- Narrowing the Field
- Stone Cold
- The Dilemma
11 – In which Bond film are there sequences filmed at Ascot and Chantilly?
12 – In which Anthony Trollope novel will you find the racehorse trainer Dot Blake?
13 – How did fiction meet real life in the film Grand National Night starring Nigel Patrick?
14 – Who wrote the racing crime thriller set in Victorian times where you meet George Happerton, Captain Raff, Rebecca Gresham and Tiberius?
15 – Ronald Wycherley plays the part of Billy in a 1965 film where a racehorse is smuggled backstage during the rehearsals of a big musical production – what is the name of the film and what was the stage name of Ronald Wycherley?
16 – What’s the name of the character played by Groucho Marx in A Day at the Races and who was the leading lady in the film?
17 – Who designed the costumes for the film My Fair Lady including the Ascot Gavotte sequence (in which the horses raced in the wrong direction) where the crowd wore black and white?
18 – In an episode of the Simpsons, Bart and Homer rescue an abused horse from the state fair and train him to run in the Springfield Derby – what is the name of the horse? (will accept either of two answers)
19 – Who wrote the following and in which book did it appear?
“The child, sitting down with the old man close behind… had been thinking how strange it was that horses who were such fine honest creatures should seem to make vagabonds of all the men they drew about them…”
20 – What links a six-year-old gelding trained by Roger Varian with a castaway?
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Answers
1 – What was the name of the racehorse hidden by the inmates in the film The Belles of St Trinian’s? Arab Boy
2 – In which Carry On film did the budgie Joey, owned by the character played by Sid James, pick the names of winning racehorses? Carry On at Your Convenience (the first Carry On film which did not cover its costs on cinematic release)
3 – What was the name of the character, an injured ex-jockey who became a one-armed private detective, who appeared in four of the novels written by Dick Francis? Sid Halley
4 – In the film Champions, who played the part of trainer Josh Gifford? Edward Woodward
5 – In which Sherlock Holmes short story does the detective refer to “the curious incident of the dog in the night-time”? The Adventure of Silver Blaze – Spoiler alert: Holmes deduces that the kidnap of the racehorse and murder of its trainer was done by someone who was known to the trainer’s dog as it made no noise when the culprit took the horse away
6 – Who wrote the novel National Velvet upon which the film starring Elizabeth Taylor was based? Enid Bagnold
7 – Who performed the theme song to the short-lived BBC TV series of the early nineties, Trainer? Cliff Richard
8 – What do the racing themed films Dry Rot, Make Mine a Million and The Rainbow Jacket have in common? They each had Sid James in the cast
9 – Which race features in the film The Yellow Rolls Royce and what was the name of the fictional winner? The Ascot Gold Cup, won by “June The Tenth”
10 – Who are the authors of the following books
- Narrowing the Field AP McCoy
- Stone Cold John Francome
- The Dilemma Jenny Pitman
11 – In which Bond film are there sequences filmed at Ascot and Chantilly? A View to a Kill
12 – In which Anthony Trollope novel will you find the racehorse trainer Dot Blake? The Kellys and the O’Kellys
13 – How did fiction meet real life in the film Grand National Night starring Nigel Patrick? Patrick played racehorse trainer Gerald Coates who accidentally kills his wife, played by Moira Lister, during a row and hides the body – the police become suspicious but he receives an alibi from Joyce Penrose, played by Patrick’s real-life wife Beatrice Campbell
14 – Who wrote the racing crime thriller set in Victorian times where you meet George Happerton, Captain Raff, Rebecca Gresham and Tiberius? D J Taylor and the book was Derby Day
15 – Ronald Wycherley plays the part of Billy in a 1965 film where a racehorse is smuggled backstage during the rehearsals of a big musical production – what is the name of the film and what was the stage name of Ronald Wycherley? I’ve Gotta Horse/Billy Fury
16 – What’s the name of the character played by Groucho Marx in A Day at the Races and who was the leading lady in the film? Dr Hugo Z Hackenbush/Maureen O’Sullivan
17 – Who designed the costumes for the film My Fair Lady including the Ascot Gavotte sequence (in which the horses raced in the wrong direction) where the crowd wore black and white? Cecil Beaton
18 – In an episode of the Simpsons, Bart and Homer rescue an abused horse from the state fair and train him to run in the Springfield Derby – what is the name of the horse? (will accept either of two answers) Duncan/Furious D
19 – Who wrote the following and in which book did it appear?
“The child, sitting down with the old man close behind… had been thinking how strange it was that horses who were such fine honest creatures should seem to make vagabonds of all the men they drew about them…”
Charles Dickens in The Olde Curiosity Shop
20 – What links a six-year-old gelding trained by Roger Varian with a castaway? The racehorse is Defoe, and Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe
