Thematic Fish Trivia

1. Which football (soccer) team, won promotion to the Football League in 2012 and is nicknamed the Cod Army?

From Quiz One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish

Answer: Fleetwood Town

After just two seasons in League Two, Fleetwood won promotion to League One in 2014, their sixth promotion in just ten years. The club nickname comes from the town of Fleetwood's history as a deep sea fishing port and fishing related industries within the town. Trivia fact, Fleetwood's stadium is named Highbury, which was the name of Premiership giants Arsenal's stadium before their move to The Emirates.

From Quiz A Very Fishy Tail

Answer: Carlo Lorenzini

Carlo Lorenzini, born in 1826 and writing under the pen name 'Carlo Collodi', became well known as the author of "The Adventures of Pinocchio" published in 1883. "Pinocchio" was the second full length animated film to be released by Disney, following the success of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" based on a fairy tale written by the Brothers Grimm in 1812. Giovanni Arpino, born in 1927, also wrote stories for children as well as being a journalist and playwright. Francesco Falconi, born in 1976, has amongst other things written fantasy books for children.

From Quiz Fishy Tales

Answer: Edvard Eriksen

'The Little Mermaid' is a fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen in 1836. Copenhagen built a statue in her honour and later Disney produced the film. The Little Mermaid statue is only 1.25 metres high and weighs about 175 kg.

From Quiz "Sleeping with the Fishes"

Answer: Trout Quintet

The Trout Quintet is written for piano, violin, viola, cello and double bass. It is a beautiful piece, but it is not Italian opera. Schubert also wrote a "String Quintet in C major" but it has no connection to fishes.

From Quiz The Humble Anchovy

Answer: Fish

Anchovies belong to the family Engraulidae, and are found in temperate oceans worldwide, with large concentrations in the Mediterranean Sea. They are preyed upon by almost every predatory fish in their environments, and also by humans.

From Quiz It's All a Bit Fishy

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.

From Quiz One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish

Answer: Ken Loach

Loach began movie directing with "Poor Cow" in 1967, after directing hard hitting TV plays such as "Cathy Come Home". Kes was voted the seventh best British movie of the 20th century by the British Film Institute, although as it told the story of a family in a Yorkshire mining community, the dialect caused one American reviewer to comment it would have been easier to have understood a movie made in Hungarian! Steve Guppy was a football (soccer) player, Mike Carp was a first baseman for the Seattle Mariners and Bill Roache is an actor, most famous for playing Ken Barlow in "Coronation Street".

From Quiz One Nation Under Cod

Answer: Cape Cod

It's Cape Cod! A beautiful place to visit, and a great tourist attraction for its sunning, fishing, and picturesque places to stay, including the typical "Cape Cod Cottage", a cozy and compact rectangular dwelling, oftimes with a small second floor, central chimney and steep gable roof. The preferred places are on the water, of course! In New England, one always 'goes down' to the Cape, regardless of which direction one arrives from. Cape Canaveral, a.k.a. Cape Kennedy, is the NASA launching site on the coast in northern Florida. Cape Hatteras is off North Carolina, and Cape May is at the southernmost tip of New Jersey.

From Quiz Fishy Tales

Answer: Albert Brooks

'Finding Nemo' is the story two clownfish called Marlin and Nemo. Lee Unkrich directed the film, along with Andrew Stanton. Walt Disney produced it.

From Quiz Here Fishy Fishy

Answer: Herringbone

This kind of pattern is called herringbone or "Opus spicatum"- spiked work. It can be seen in roman masonry like Trajan's market in Rome, Italy. Just a simple, but decorative zigzag design. It is also a common parquet style and is used for a special cloth, quite often tweed, a way to braid your hair and a special step in skiing.

From Quiz "Sleeping with the Fishes"

Answer: Patagonian toothfish

Sea bass is best the Venetian way: Orata Al Forno Con Gli Aromi (Roast Sea Bass with Herbs). Use butter instead of olive oil (sorry Godfather) and serve with a Soave wine. At a restaurant, always order sea bass by its proper name "Patagonian toothfish".

From Quiz The Humble Anchovy

Answer: Intestines

As well as being an ingredient in almost every dish in the "Apicius" ancient Roman cookbook, garum was used as a remedy for dog bites, ulcers, and dysentery! The city of Pompeii was famous for its garum.

From Quiz It's All a Bit Fishy

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".

From Quiz One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish

Answer: Jackson Pollock

Despite achieving fame as a "drip painter", leading to "Life" magazine asking "Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?", Pollock stopped drip painting in 1951, with his later works, especially during his so called "Black pourings" phase, disappointing many art collectors, so great was the shift in style. Pollock died in 1956 in a single vehicle alcohol related car accident.

From Quiz A Very Fishy Tail

Answer: A Fish Called Wanda

Micheal Palin is the former Python in question (Monty Python's Flying Circus and unfortunately his favourite fish is eaten alive by one of the baddies. However, most of the characters in this film about treachery and greed are less than pure. The film also stars John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis and Kevin Kline. A very funny and worthwhile watch.

From Quiz Fishy Tales

Answer: Amity Island

'Jaws' was filmed in 1975 and was based on the novel of the same name by Peter Benchley. Stephen Spielberg directed the film.

From Quiz "Sleeping with the Fishes"

Answer: marlin

Hemingway won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for "The Old Man and the Sea". It centers upon Santiago, an old Cuban fisherman who struggles with a gigantic marlin. I identified with Santiago, especially when he was fighting off sharks. This is my kind of book: it is only 127 pages.

From Quiz The Humble Anchovy

Answer: Domoic Acid

Domoic acid is produced by tiny diatoms called Pseudo-nitzschia and is a neurotoxin. It bio-accumulates in the food chain and if consumed, can cause permanent memory loss, brain damage, or even death!

From Quiz One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish

Answer: Canada

Salmon Arm is a city in British Columbia on the shores of Shuswap Lake, overlooked by Mount Ida, and Herring Neck is a small fishing community in Newfoundland and Labrador which was first settled in the 1760s.

From Quiz One Nation Under Cod

Answer: Codling

Codling is the term for both a baby cod, a small hake {fish} and a small unripe apple. There is also a codling moth, whose larvae live in apples, pears and English walnuts. In spawning grounds the northeast Atlantic cods lay eggs anytime between January and April at a depth of about six hundred feet where water temperatures are around 39 to 43 degrees F - 4 to 6 degrees C. - and the eggs hatch anywhere from 8 to 23 days later.

From Quiz A Very Fishy Tail

Answer: Babel fish

The late great Douglas Adams was of course the genius behind the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" books, radio and television show, and the incredible little fish you simply popped into your ear for an instant translation in any language! If you have never read the book and would like an insight into this very imaginative man's mind here is a taster... "Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindbogglingly useful could evolve by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing". "But," says man, "the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It proves you exist and so therefore you don't. QED." "Oh dear," says God, "I hadn't thought of that," and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "Oh, that was easy," says man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed on the next zebra crossing." Taken from The "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" By Douglas Adams.

From Quiz Fishy Tales

Answer: Suzy

Even though Flipper was portrayed as a male dolphin Suzy was actually a female dolphin. Other dolphins to occasionally play the part of Flipper were named as Patty, Kathy, Scotty, Squirt and Clown.

From Quiz Here Fishy Fishy

Answer: Billingsgate

In earlier time Billingsgate was a market selling all kinds of stuff needed, not only fish. In the year 1699 came an act of Parliament allowing the place to be "a free and open market for all sorts of fish whatsoever". With the exception of eels, they were restricted to Dutch fishermen because they helped a lot while the great fire of London was on. As the homepage of the Town of London informs, an average of 25,000 tons of fish and fish products are sold at this place per annum nowadays. It stretches over 13 acres of land and you find everything needed for this kind of business.

From Quiz "Sleeping with the Fishes"

Answer: sturgeon

Caviar is the salted roe of a large fish, especially the sturgeon and the salmon. Due to dwindling stocks of sturgeon, Russia began a 10-year ban on the harvest and sale of black caviar on August 1, 2007. No one in "The Family" was very big on caviar being included as part of the antipasti.

From Quiz The Humble Anchovy

Answer: Vietnam

Many people consider Phu Quoc fish sauce to be the best in the world. Three tons of black anchovies and one ton of salt are fermented in hand made vats for at least a year before the first tasting takes place. The Knorr company has a licence to produce genuine Phu Quoc sauce, and markets 2,500 tons a year.

From Quiz It's All a Bit Fishy

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.

From Quiz One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish

Answer: Georges Prosper Remi

Between 1930 and 2004, Hergé produced 24 volumes of Tintin adventures featuring the eponymous hero and his faithful dog Snowy (Milou in the original French cartoons) as well as Captain Haddock, Professor Calculus and the Thompson Twins. Postage stamps featuring Tintin have been issued by Belgium, France, Netherlands and Democratic Republic of Congo.

From Quiz Shark Bite

Answer: Greg Norman

Gregory John Norman was born in the mining town of Mt Isa, Queensland in 1955. He participated in a number of sports as a youth, and didn't take up golf until he was 15. By the age of 20 he had turned professional, and gained his first tournament victory in 1976 at the West Lakes Classic in Adelaide, South Australia. Much more success was to follow, including 331 weeks ranked at Number 1, and victories at The British Open in 1986 and 1993. Despite all his success, many Australians recall him more for his failures - he came oh so close so many times, but never won any more majors, and had some heartbreaking losses.

From Quiz One Nation Under Cod

Answer: Codeine

Codeine, used properly and following medical advice, is a very useful drug and rarely causes complications. The two 'Oxy' drugs are also pain killers, but have also become 'street drugs' where they are very expensive. A codon is a specific sequence of three consecutive nucleotides, part of one's genetic code.

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