2021 USDF/IDA Quiz Challenge

Membership and Quiz Challenge Registration

Membership Requirement: Participants in the Quiz Challenge must be active IDA members, and current USDF members. USDF membership can be a Participating Membership, a Group Member Organization (GMO) Membership, or an Education Membership. Your membership must be current from when you register until the conclusion of the Quiz Challenge.

• Both memberships must be in place in order to register for the Quiz Challenge.
• Go here https://www.usdf.org/join/ to join or to renew your USDF membership.
• If you are over 21 and you want to do the Education Membership, please email your request to Jamie Humphries at [email protected] to receive the $10.00 youth education membership rate.

Registration: Online registration for the quiz challenge can be found on this page: https://www.usdf.org/education/quiz_challenge.asp. You must be logged in to your USDF account in order to access the registration button. The final day to enter is March 10.

• Once your entry has been processed, you will receive an email with further information regarding how the 2021 Quiz Challenge will be administered.
• Coaches will be sent an email listing all registered participants from their school on March 5.

Quiz Challenge Round 1

• The first round of the quiz challenge will open on March 12 and close on March 26 at midnight. 
• Round one will focus on information from the USEF Dressage Rulebook and the following in-depth studies on https://www.usdf.org/education/university/kb/courses/indepth.asp:
• Classical Training: https://www.usdf.org/education/university/kb/course.asp?ID=1812
• Riders Aids: https://www.usdf.org/education/university/kb/course.asp?ID=1810
• Seat and Position: https://www.usdf.org/education/university/kb/course.asp?ID=1814
• Pyramid of Training: https://www.usdf.org/education/university/kb/item.asp?ID=2310&q=pyramid%20of%20training
• The results of Round One will be announced on April 1st. 

Round 1 of the quiz will be online, but in a monitored situation

• The coach (or other school authority) will set a day/time that their team will take the quiz together, in one location, in a monitored situation. Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the teams may have to split up to take the quiz this year. Always follow your state and local guidelines.
• The coach will send an email to the USDF Youth Programs Liaison ([email protected]) informing her of the date/time the team took the quiz, and will include a list of the names of those team members participating.
• The quiz results “date stamp” will be verified against that list.

Championship Round at IDA Nationals

2021 Grand Prize