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

Round-up is what the word meant in English from the 1830s, borrowed from the Spanish for 'a going round'; only in the 1910s did 'rodeo' come to mean a...

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

Vaqueros left a second mark on English: 'buckaroo' is English speakers' reshaping of the Spanish 'vaquero', which comes from vaca, 'cow'.

Q 03/05

A July 4, 1883 steer-roping contest, often called the world's first rodeo, was held in which town?

A) Pecos, Texas

B) Deadwood, Dakota Territory

C) Dodge City, Kansas

D) Tombstone, Arizona

Answer · why

A) Pecos, Texas

Pecos, Texas, staged it after rival ranch outfits each claimed the fastest steer ropers; Fourth of July picnickers watched, and the prizes were blue r...

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

Colorado's legislature backed the claim in 1969, resolving that the world's first rodeo was the bronco-busting contest held at Deer Trail on July 4, 1...

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

Prescott, Arizona, rests its claim on 1888, when its cowboy contest charged admission and awarded prizes; the slogan was trademarked in 1985.