Here Fishy Fishy Trivia Quiz

Answer: Die Forelle (The Trout)

Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart wrote the poem "Die Forelle" between 1777-1778 while he was in prison for political reasons. It was a difficult time to write what you thought and you shouldn't attack Jesuits! He used the parable of the fish to describe his own bad personal situation: he was lured from a place were he was safe to the duchy Württemberg were he was arrested in 1777. In fact he was tricked just like the trout. Well, at least he wasn't killed - something that happened to the trout. Schubart was released in 1787 due to the intrusion of Prussia.

Austrian composer Franz Schubert known for his nine symphonies including the "Unfinished Symphony" and also composer of about 600 songs and a lot of other works, too, took this poem and gave it a melody in the year 1820.

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.

Answer: Yes

Beavers live near and in the water. Fish live in the water. Therefore: beavers are fish. Strange logic, but it worked. People were always inventive to circumvent rules. One source told me, only the tails and feet were allowed because they were fish like, the rest of the beaver was treated like all other game. But this maybe a local rule, other sources speak of the beaver in its whole being regarded as a fish.

You could also eat barnacle geese or turtles. In the year 2003 a group of Mexican environmentalists asked the pope to tell his Mexican followers of one area in Mexico to stop consuming sea turtle as food in fasting times. We are not so far away from the middle ages.

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.

Answer: Man's Favourite Sport?

Yes, Rock Hudson did make movies without Doris Day. His partner in this movie, released in 1964, was Paula Prentiss. She discovers that he is only a theoretical expert, they quarrel a lot and are, as usual, together in the end. The movie was produced and directed by Howard Hawks. It was planned as a homage to Hawks own "Bringing up Baby" but Hudson/Prentiss weren't Grant/Hepburn. The film is fun, in its own way, if you like jokes about men falling in the water and fighting with tents.

The wrong answers are also Rock Hudson movies.

Answer: Haddock

It is said Peter left his thumb mark when he caught a haddock in the Sea of Galilee. Which is a bit strange, the haddock is a fish found mainly in cooler waters like the Atlantic ocean.

If I whetted your appetite for this Miss Marple story: You can find in the collection "The Thirteen Problems" American name: "The Tuesday Club Murders". It was first released in 1932 UK or 1933 in the USA. Miss Marple appears in these stories for the first time. The story I mentioned is supposed to tell about the first murder case Jane Marple solved.

Answer: Aphrodite and Eros

Thyphon was the youngest and ugliest kid of Gaia and Tartarus raised to take revenge on Zeus and the rest of the Olympic clan. They had imprisoned the titans, something she wasn't happy about. When Aphrodite and her son Eros met Thyphon they fled as a pair of fish (or hold tight on a pair of fish) tied together on their tails to avoid to get lost. Thyphon was locked up in the end in the volcano Etna. He is the father of some nasty monsters like Cerberus and the Sphinx.

Like all myths there are a dozen other versions, but in the Greek style it seems to be always Aphrodite and her little boy.

Answer: Shaved Fish

John Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band released this in 1975. It was an compilation album with had every US single Lennon had released in the US until that moment put on it. It reached # 12 in the US, # 5 in the UK chart and turned platinum in the end. John Lennon, former Beatle, died in 1980.

The name "Shaved fish" was inspired from some Japanese edible(John's wife Yoko Ono was Japanese). It is called Katsuobushi. It's dried and smoked Tuna and used sliced as the main ingredient of the soup stock called Dashi and for some other recipes, too.

Answer: Shagreen

Shagreen was originally made from a kind of horse or wild ass leather but, with time, it was more common to be the leather made out of the skin of fishes like the stingray or shark. It is not only only used for shoes, belts and handbags but also for many decorative things like boxes and so on.

The stingray lives in coastal tropical marine waters. He is rather flat, glides through the water and is mainly a peaceful fish, most injuries of Human happen because the brush against the sting while wading in flat water.

While suede and chamois are linked with real leather, naugahyde is something completely artificial used instead of leather.

Answer: Babel Fish

It is the Babel fish, named after that famous town with the even more famous tower whose building and downfall let -at least that's what the bible tells us- to the confusion of language. No doubt that Douglas Adams got the name for his translation fish out of this story. The fish has to be inserted into one's ear and does his job there and then. The website Babel Fish was named after Adam's fictional fish and is owned by Yahoo!.

The other creatures are out of the "Hitchhiker's Guide", too. Just remove the fish I put behind them, they just swum by for company (and making it more difficult).