Q 01/05

The word 'rodeo' comes from Spanish and roughly translates into English as what?

A) Wild ride

B) Horse fair

C) Cattle drive

D) Round-up

Answer · why

D) Round-up

It descends from the verb rodear, 'to surround', and in Spain once meant a pen for cattle at a market.

Q 02/05

Rodeo grew out of the working skills of which horse-mounted herders of Spain and colonial Mexico?

A) Gauchos

B) Llaneros

C) Huasos

D) Vaqueros

Answer · why

D) Vaqueros

The Great Basin term 'buckaroo' is thought to be a corruption of the Spanish word.

Q 03/05

Encyclopedia Britannica's 'world's first public cowboy contest' was held on July 4, 1883, in which town?

A) Pecos, Texas

B) Deadwood, Dakota Territory

C) Dodge City, Kansas

D) Tombstone, Arizona

Answer · why

A) Pecos, Texas

It started as an argument between cattle driver Trav Windham and roper Morg Livingston; Windham won and the prize was $40 and blue ribbons.

Q 04/05

Deer Trail, which claims the first rodeo competition in 1869, is a town in which state?

A) Wyoming

B) Montana

C) Colorado

D) Nebraska

Answer · why

C) Colorado

The town sits on I-70 about 55 miles east of Denver and had barely a thousand residents at the 2020 census.

Q 05/05

Which town trademarked the phrase 'World's Oldest Rodeo'?

A) Prescott, Arizona

B) Pendleton, Oregon

C) Cheyenne, Wyoming

D) Ogden, Utah

Answer · why

A) Prescott, Arizona

The trademark on the slogan was registered in 1985, nearly a century after the first show.