It's All a Bit Fishy Trivia Quiz

Answer: Kipper tie

Mr. Fish, both the name of the boutique and the soubriquet by which he preferred to be known, introduced the wide tie in 1966. Though it may not have been his original invention, Fish's ties, with their garish designs, became hugely popular and the garment was dubbed "the kipper" both because of its designer and because of its shape, which vaguely resembled a fish.

Fish was at the forefront of what became known as the "peacock revolution". This revolution saw 1960s men's fashion pivot towards a more showy and flamboyant look, with crushed velvet, frills and bright colours replacing the more buttoned-down grey tones of the start of the decade.

Answer: Kurt Vonnegut

Kilgore Trout is named for the real-life science fiction writer Theodore Sturgeon. Though they share a profession, Trout's life is otherwise quite different from that of Sturgeon. In fact Trout is different from novel to novel with his biographical details changing to suit each particular narrative. He also plays different roles in the novels - graduating from a minor character in his first appearance in "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater" to be a central character in novels such as "Breakfast of Champions" and "Timequake".

Trout broke out from his confines within the works of Kurt Vonnegut to write his own novel, "Venus on the Half-Shell" in 1975. At first this was assumed to be another work from the pen of Vonnegut but it was soon revealed that it was written by Philip José Farmer, based (with permission) on an extract of Trout's writing first published in Vonnegut's novel, "God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater".

Answer: Fish Islands

Fish Islands is a group of islands lying off the west coast of Graham Land, the northern part of the Antarctic peninsula. Lying on the north-west coast of Antarctica close to the South American continent, the Fish Islands comprise of Salmon Island, Trout Island, Mackerel Island, Flounder Island and a smaller group of islands called The Minnows. The islands are home to several thousand breeding pairs of Adelie penguins.

Cape Cod in Massachusetts is similarly a peninsula, on the north-east coast of the United States, popular with tourists and artists alike and famous for its whale-watching expeditions.

Bass Harbor in Maine is a major lobster-producing port that was known until 1961 as McKinley after the 25th President of the USA.

Pikeville, Kentucky is home to the Pikeville Cut-Through, the second largest earth-moving project in the world after the Panama Canal, created to give space for a four-lane highway, a railroad track and a redirected fork of the Big Sandy River.

Answer: BBC Weatherman

The Great Storm of 1987 that followed just a few hours on from Fish's broadcast was the most violent storm to hit the UK in 300 years. Technically, the storm did not constitute a hurricane because it did not originate from the north Atlantic or north Pacific, so Fish was correct. However, despite mentioning that the south of the country would experience "very windy" weather, his failure to predict that the winds would be hurricane-force became a millstone around his neck for most of the rest of his career.

The storm caused extensive damage, particularly in the south-east of England, with gusts of up to 120mph bringing down millions of trees and damaging power lines and roofs of buildings. Nineteen people lost their lives from falling debris, a number that would likely have been much higher had the storm not struck in the early hours of the morning. All but one of the trees after which the town of Sevenoaks in Kent had been named were felled. Seven new trees were planted to replace them meaning that Sevenoaks now has eight oaks.

Answer: Catfish

The name for catfishing was coined after the documentary film "Catfish" (2010). The movie followed a photographer named Nev who began an online relationship with a girl called Megan, who he encountered via her sister, a child who had sent him a painting she had made of one of his photographs.

Nev grew suspicious of Megan when she sent him musical recordings that she claimed she had made but were downloads from YouTube. He travelled to her home and met Angela, Megan's mother, where over the course of time he discovered that Megan did not exist. Angela had concocted a whole tale of falsehoods to fool him into believing she was someone else and gain his artistic patronage.

The movie title came from a section where Angela's husband Vince told a story about how catfish were shipped in tanks with cod to keep the cod active and in the best condition for sale. Vince then compares his wife to the catfish saying that she performed the same role socially, making everyone's life around her interesting.

Answer: Ally McBeal

"Ally McBeal" hit our screens in 1997 and ran for five seasons. The show centred around Ally, played by Calista Flockhart, a lawyer in the practice of Cage and Fish. The show, which concentrated as much on McBeal's love life as her practising law, is often best remembered for the law firm having a unisex bathroom.

Answer: Marillion

Marillion headed up the musical movement known as neo-prog and achieved their greatest success with the single "Kayleigh" in 1985, a single that reached number two in the UK charts and helped propel its album "Misplaced Childhood" to number one in the album chart.

Fish, real name Derek Dick, was not a founder member of the band, joining two years later in 1981. He left the band in 1988 after a falling out and launched a solo career, hitting the UK top ten with his debut album, "Vigil in a Wilderness of Mirrors".

Answer: Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock's drip technique, whereby the canvas was laid horizontally on the floor and liquid paint was dripped across the canvas, was also known as action painting. It highlighted the physical aspect of the painting process rather than the precise placement of paint in more traditional painting methods, a method that Pollock said allowed him to be "in the painting." It was not a style of painting that was universally loved but it produced such masterpieces as "Autumn Rhythm" and "Number 5", which in 2006 became the most expensive painting ever sold at auction.

Pollock is a whitefish that is often used as an alternative to cod or haddock such as in fish fingers.

Answer: Franz Schubert

The official title of the piece is "Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667" but it was nicknamed the "Trout Quintet" because of its fourth movement. This movement was a series of variations on a melody that Schubert had previously written called "Die Forelle", German for "the trout".

The quintet is unusual because instead of a second violin, normally included in a string quintet, the piece instead had a part for a double bass.

Answer: Haddock

Mitchell, or Austin Haddock as we should perhaps call him, chose to take this action to promote National Seafood Week and to try and encourage the British public to support the British fishing industry, and to buy the local specialty of haddock in particular. Once a thriving industry in Grimsby, with the town being home to the world's largest fishing fleet, by 2002 it was struggling with the changes to the areas that local fishermen could work in, owing to the common fisheries policy of the EU. The town still retained the largest fish market in the UK but the majority of the produce sold there was imported.

Mitchell's wife Linda briefly considered changing her surname to "Chips" but not long after Seafood week was over, Austin changed his name back to Mitchell once more.