Portal:Fish/Quiz/Archive6

Question 1
Since nobody's posting a question, I think I'll start. This silvery king of fishes is well known to anglers because of its size, inaccessible haunts, and tremendous fighting spirit when hooked.  bibliomaniac 1  5  01:26, 23 September 2007 (UTC)


 * King Mackerel?--Dwaink 04:25, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * King Salmon?   L' Aquatique      talktome   04:36, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Just learned that outside of AK king salmon are known as Chinook Salmon. Sorry if that caused confusion.   L' Aquatique      talktome   05:07, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Atlantic tarpon, also known as th Silver king?? --Cynops3 05:21, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * In the article for Atlantic Tarpon, it says it has accessible haunts. Wonder if that was a typo on Bibliomaniac's part?   L' Aquatique      talktome   20:21, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Whoops, sorry, that was a typo on my part. I was referring to the Atlantic Tarpon, so Cynops3 gets the point.  bibliomaniac 1  5  00:37, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

Question 2
What fish can make the fastest recorded motion by an animal?? --Cynops3 01:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I think this question should be rephrased as the fastest motion of an animal is an eye movement, thousands of times a second. Not to be a stickler, but should you have even answered the last question, as it was supposed to be yours?Dwaink 02:49, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Scomber japonicus?   L' Aquatique      talktome
 * I probably shouldn't have answered that last question, and I definitely won't answer any more. So far no answeres have been correct. --Cynops3 14:30, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Perhaps my response was a bit more "snippy" than i intended,but please be aware that you have just as much right to answer questions(and pose them) here as anyone. Don't take my quoting of the rules as any sort of intention to oust or offend you. I had no such intention i assure you. I do have a quibble with the "motion" part of your posed question though as saccadic eye motion is the fastest motion of any sort that i have ever heard of:

"The dynamics of saccadic eye motion give insight into the complexity of the mechanism that controls the motion of the eye. The saccade is the fastest movement of an external part of the human body. The peak angular speed of the eye during a saccade reaches up to 1000 degrees per second. Saccades last from about 20 to 200 milliseconds." and there are microsaccades that have even faster times. Please accept my apology if you have taken offense to my comments.Dwaink 21:35, 24 September 2007 (UTC)


 * "I definitely won't answer any more"... what does that mean? Don't leave the quiz, Cynops, we love you! I'm stumped by the way.   L' Aquatique      talktome   20:11, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

No offense taken, I had already been planning on taking a short break. I didn't mean forever...--Cynops3 01:51, 25 September 2007 (UTC) And as for the eye movement. You definitely could be right, I was just quoting the article. It involves the mouth movement. --Cynops3 02:04, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll try again, now that we have ascertained the Cynops is definitely not offended or angry with us in any way! Anglerfish? From what I've been able to research they have the fastest "strike" of any animal. If I am right, perhaps the question could have been worded that way. If I am wrong, everyone can point and laugh at me.   L' Aquatique      talktome   05:35, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * More specifically, the family that contains the frogfish, but I'll give you the point. --Cynops3 15:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Question 3
A part of the human brain that plays a large part in memory is so named because its shape resembles that of this genus of unusual fish.   L' Aquatique      talktome   20:02, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * The Hippocampus, or Sea Horse.  bibliomaniac 1  5  21:38, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Got it! Although technically the term is seahorse (without the space). Nice job!   L' Aquatique      talktome   06:44, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

Question 4
This slang word is also used to attract sharks.  bibliomaniac 1  5  23:05, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Chum?   L' Aquatique      talktome   00:16, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Yep. The next one's yours, chum.  bibliomaniac 1  5  01:21, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks, king salmon! I mean, uh, chum. :p   L' Aquatique      talktome   04:30, 27 September 2007 (UTC)

Question 5
This small town just south of my hometown has been dubbed the "Salmon Capital of the World" because of the amount of salmon that come to spawn in the local lakes and streams, leading to a thriving commercial fishing economy.   L' Aquatique      talktome   04:34, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Ketchikan.  bibliomaniac 1  5  05:09, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Right on. Methinks that was too easy! ;)   L' Aquatique      talktome   00:16, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Question 6
When something is hard to classify or describe because it is like one thing in one way and another thing in the other, what idiom with the word "fish" do we use to describe this?  bibliomaniac 1  5  03:37, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * "be neither fish nor fowl"Dwaink 22:08, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Correct.  bibliomaniac 1  5  22:41, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Question 7
The strongest fish bite ever known?Dwaink 23:42, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Dunkleosteus?  bibliomaniac 1  5  00:50, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Indeed!Dwaink 05:06, 29 September 2007 (UTC)

Question 8
Easy question. This is the shark's equivalent of a penis.  bibliomaniac 1  5  03:35, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * Their modified pelvic fin, similar to how male livebearers' anal fins are fused specially to form the gonopodium.   L' Aquatique      talktome   23:18, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * What's it called...  bibliomaniac 1  5  03:02, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Claspers?Dwaink 03:06, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Well geez. We should both get the point for that, you didn't specifically ask for the name of the appendage. I gave a valid answer...   L' Aquatique      talktome   04:59, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll give both of you a point, since you were both "technically right." Any of you may start the new question.  bibliomaniac 1  5  00:49, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

Question 9
This bane of fishkeepers has an elegant but non medicine cure. The cure requires only 7 tanks of conditioned 80 degree water. Name the problem, the method of cure and why it works? L'Aquatique, as a point getter, you can not answer.Dwaink 04:10, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'll just say that that cure may be elegant, but hugely impractical. Thankfully I've never dealt with the "plague"... :D   L' Aquatique      talktome   05:18, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Hint#1-if you are seeing spots......Dwaink 00:35, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Can I answer now?   L' Aquatique      talktome   04:26, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Okay, I'll strike a guess. The problem is Whitespot, or Ich. The cure is the 7 tanks of conditioned 80 degree water with some salt treatment, because only the free-swimming stage of the parasite can be killed. Therefore, it is necessary to do the procedure for some time to allow any trophonts under the epithelium or the tomont cysts to mature so they can be killed. It's just a hunch, maybe L'Aquatique would be better off answering.  bibliomaniac 1  5  04:46, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The whitespot part is correct.....Dwaink 20:27, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
 * The 80 degree water speeds up the ich's life cycle. You put the fish in the first tank, leave it for some two odd days, then move it to the next tank, and so on and so forth. The reason that this works is that the cysts hatch and leave the fish, so as long as you keep it moving they cannot complete their lifecycle and pretty soon the ich is gone. Once the fish are safe they should be kept in quarantine, and their display tank should be left running, empty or w/ corals/plants for 40 days, since that is just past the maximum amount of time that the buggers can survive without a host. 72.173.34.51 02:13, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Correct answer 72.173.34.....,though i was also looking for the method(transfer method), perhaps u should log in as a user?Dwaink 02:39, 5 October 2007 (UTC)Hmm upon checking back i see this is L'Aquatique's number.....sigh point for you.Dwaink 02:42, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Haha! Victory is mine! I'm kidding of course, and would suggest you give the point to Biblio because he rocks and such.   L' Aquatique       talk to me     17:00, 5 October 2007 (UTC)

Question 10
This plucky little black fish is the damselfish... but it's also the chromis.   L' Aquatique       talk to me     07:15, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Chromis leucura ?Dwaink 19:26, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
 * You're on the right track, but no...   L' Aquatique       talk to me     15:22, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Chromis nigrura?  bibliomaniac 1  5  23:53, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Nope. Here's a hint... List of marine aquarium fish species   L' Aquatique       talk to me     20:06, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Chromis chromis?Dwaink 21:17, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Right on! Chromis chromis, common name "Damselfish" is the Damselfish. But it's actually the original chromis, hence the scientific name!   L' Aquatique       talk to me     21:47, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Question 11
What fish has the smallest amount of "junk DNA" of studied vertebrates?Dwaink 02:11, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Pufferfish of the genus Takifugu?   L' Aquatique       talk to me     02:35, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Takifugu rubripres, if you'd like to be specific with the species.  bibliomaniac 1  5  04:07, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Pufferfish sufices :), you guys are too quick!Point L'Aquatique.Dwaink 11:00, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Question 12
What fish was named after a drug? --Cynops3 00:04, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Is it just me or is the fish quiz dead? With just three current active users, it seems so. Maybe it should be turned into an animal quiz, or a vertebrate quiz. Just throwing this idea out to you guys. --Cynops3 19:27, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Tetraodontidae-Tetrodotoxin?...and i hope the quiz isn't dead, though participation seems slowed.Dwaink 20:08, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Drug as in narcotic. --Cynops3 22:56, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

Maybe I should throw out the hint that it is extinct. --Cynops3 13:56, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Kokanee salmon?--Gunnar Mikalsen Kvifte 15:17, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Kokanee salmon aren't extinct, I see them all the time... --( L' Aquatique : Bringing chaos & general mayhem to the Wiki for One Year!) 17:54, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

I should also mention that it is a group of fish at family level or larger.--Cynops3 20:50, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Must admit this one really has me stumped.....Dwaink 21:10, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I'll just put out the answer, and let some one else post another question. The answer would be Pituriaspida, named after the Aborigene narcotic Pituri. --Cynops3 22:34, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

Pituri isn't a narcotic, it's a hallucinogen.  bibliomaniac 1 5  A straw poll on straw polls 02:12, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Oh, sorry. I hadn't known the difference. --Cynops3 02:43, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

Question 13
Why is it so easy to weigh fish?Dwaink 22:27, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Cause they have their own scales?  bibliomaniac 1 5  A straw poll on straw polls 22:38, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

Yes indeed silly!!!Yehaw point for biblio.Dwaink 05:04, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

Question 14
Why are pikes so hard to filet?  bibliomaniac 1 5  A straw poll on straw polls 23:11, 9 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Because of the y bones that are all through their flesh, and their skeletal structure is such that only the larger fish have enough of a filet to get. That said they are fine eating, caught on a Popiel's Pocket Fisherman on a Missanabi whitewater rapid,gutted and sliced in sections, and cooked on the bank in the coals of a campfire, wrapped up with foil....Dwaink 18:49, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Right-o. A point for you. Where'd L'Aquatique go?  bibliomaniac 1 5  A straw poll on straw polls 19:32, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

Question 15
This tiny salt water fish is an excellent example of symbiosis, with predators bringing it food, to a set location.Dwaink 02:06, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I would guess cleaner wrasse which "clean" visitors of parasites and other things. For the visitor, it's a cleaning service, for the wrasse, it's a feeding station. Mind you, there are a lot of fish and other marine creatures who provide this service. Jnpet 03:03, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * A valid guess but not as tiny as i was looking for.Dwaink 04:51, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * A cleaner goby of some sort?  bibliomaniac 1 5  A straw poll on straw polls 04:58, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Getting warmer, need the specific goby....Dwaink 21:21, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * These gobies operate in the Gulf of Mexico, and while only one is the true " " goby, there is a large group of gobies that are called this.Dwaink 12:41, 14 November 2007 (UTC)


 * The Neon Gobys? --Cynops3 14:32, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Point for Cynops.Dwaink 22:58, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

Question 16
The head of what fish is preferred for an asian soup. --Cynops3 14:35, 15 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Have seen it made with Red Snapper heads, Silver Carp heads and Giant Trevally(Caranx ignobilis) too.Dwaink 21:01, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

All three of those? The article on fish head curry only mentions Red snapper, so you get a point. I realized that none of those were originally used for curry, since the only one native to Asia was the trevally, and that has the toxin ciguatera in it. --Cynops3 22:36, 15 November 2007 (UTC)

Question 17
This Chemoautotroph is thought to be one of earth's first inhabitants, and is critical to life in water. While not a fish, no fish could live without them. What critical function do they perform?Dwaink 12:10, 16 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Aerobic or anaerobic.....??Dwaink (talk) 18:33, 20 November 2007 (UTC)Happy Thanksgiving(if you are into that sort of thing) by the way!!!!Dwaink (talk) 03:58, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Anaerobic?Bewareofdog (talk) 23:02, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Anaerobic what?Dwaink (talk) 03:30, 25 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I suppose those bacteria that produce organic compounds from the hydrothermal vents?  bibliomaniac 1  5  05:00, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I was looking for nitrobacter, but will offer the point for bacteria.Dwaink (talk) 04:56, 26 November 2007 (UTC)

Question 18
This was a method of fishing that was often employed by trout poachers, as it used no potentially incriminating equipment.  bibliomaniac 1  5  02:08, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Trout tickling? Jnpet (talk) 03:28, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Noodling?Dwaink (talk) 05:02, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Noodling is mostly for catfish. Point goes to Jnpet.  bibliomaniac 1  5  04:20, 28 November 2007 (UTC)

Question 19
This illness/poisoning in humans is caused by eating marine species whose flesh is contaminated with a toxin, which is present in many micro-organisms living in tropical waters. Like many naturally and artificially occurring toxins, it accumulates in lower-level organisms, resulting in higher concentration of the toxin at higher levels of the food chain, an example of biomagnification. Predator species near the top of the food chain in tropical waters are most likely to cause the illness, although many other tropical species have been found to cause occasional outbreaks. Name either the illness, poisoning or the toxin for a point. Jnpet (talk) 05:50, 28 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Toxins from dinoflagellates that cause Shellfish Poisoning.  bibliomaniac 1  5  05:55, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Good guess, but not the answer being sought. This illness comes from eating mainly predatory fish. Plus, I'm looking for a specific toxin which also gives the illness/poisoning its name. Jnpet (talk) 06:58, 28 November 2007 (UTC)


 * Mercury Poisoning??Dwaink (talk) 13:36, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ciguatera, caused by ciguatoxin? --Cynops3 (talk) 14:53, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Ciguatera is the correct answer! A point to Cynops3! Jnpet (talk) 01:46, 29 November 2007 (UTC)

Question 20
What person, who was a president of both a college in California and Indiana, had a somewhat small (as in smaller than two meters)cartilaginous fish and a wrasse named after him? --Cynops3 (talk) 03:12, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
 * Someone has been spending too much time on FishBase....Dwaink (talk) 04:37, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I think if there is a lack of response you need to start posting hints. --Jnpet (talk) 05:02, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Sorry. I can give a few more hints. The colleges are both parts of the organization AAU. --Cynops3 (talk) 18:51, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Dr John Welty? Auroranorth (!) 05:13, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, but no. It mentions the fish named after him in his article. --Cynops3 (talk) 15:11, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

David Starr Jordan? --Jnpet (talk) 09:51, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Thats it. --Cynops3 (talk) 01:25, 18 December 2007 (UTC)

Question 21
Which Monty Python movie opens with the six Pythons playing fish in a tank who engage in a brief philosophical conversation? --Jnpet (talk) 02:07, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Monty Python's The Meaning of Life.  bibliomaniac 1  5  04:17, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
 * That's the one! A point to Bibliomaniac15! --Jnpet (talk) 02:10, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Question 22
According to Ben Franklin, what is like fish, and why?  bibliomaniac 1  5  03:26, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Visitors, because they both begin to stink in three days.Dwaink (talk) 05:42, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Right, according to my poor uncle Richard.  bibliomaniac 1  5  23:21, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Question 23
The advent of trawling improvements and rail lines, aided by a collision of two products being cooked in the same way, one from the north and the other from the south, brought us this meal in the UK during the later 19th century.Dwaink (talk) 05:39, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Fish and chips?  bibliomaniac 1  5  05:56, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Too easy huh? Right you are, and close to winning!Dwaink (talk) 03:35, 21 December 2007 (UTC)

Question 24
This fish is known in Chinese as the "elephant fish."  bibliomaniac 1  5  04:41, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Chinese paddlefish? --Jnpet (talk) 10:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I was surprised to see this question remained unanswered for so long. I actually wanted to answer it on the 21st, but as I was going on a vacation, I decided not to. Anyway, may I suggest hints be posted every 24 hours if there is no response? It would help move this along. Unless of course interest has completely disipated. --Jnpet (talk) 10:37, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm back, and I say the Paiche, Arapaima gigas! :D   l'aqùatique      talk   17:56, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Sorry, haven't been around for some time. Jnpet gets the point.  bibliomaniac 1  5  19:07, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

Question 25
It has been reported that this fish has been used to catch sea turtles around the Indian Ocean. Name the fish. --Jnpet (talk) 19:40, 28 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm new here, and inexperienced with this sort of thing. Any hints?Jourdy288 (talk) 22:46, 28 December 2007 (UTC) Here's a hint: In ancient mythology, this fish was believed to stop ships from sailing. --Jnpet (talk) 10:29, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Hi Jourdy288. welcome to the fish quiz!
 * The remora?  bibliomaniac 1  5  03:04, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Yes indeed, remora is the answer I was looking for. A point to Bibliomaniac15! --Jnpet (talk) 03:07, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Question 26
This computer game by PopCap Games not only has the player tending to guppies, but also fighting aliens and keeping other pets ranging from whales to snails.  bibliomaniac 1  5  03:17, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Insaniquarium?Dwaink (talk) 18:17, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Correct.  bibliomaniac 1  5  18:37, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Question 27
"They have nothing of harm to dread,

But liquidly glide on his ghastly flank

Or before his Gorgonian head;

Or lurk in the port of serrated teeth

In white triple tiers of glittering gates,

And there find a haven when peril 's abroad,

An asylum in jaws of the Fates!"

Describes a fish, one who's markings are added to surfboards and these fish have also been known to follow ships for weeks...which fish is it?Dwaink (talk) 19:46, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


 * Pilot fish.  bibliomaniac 1  5  19:55, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
 * B I N G O grats on the win Biblio!Dwaink (talk) 22:02, 31 December 2007 (UTC)