QUIZ TIME - Some of the questions last changed on 02/10/03 Compiled by David Marshall
The answers appear after the second photograph
Question 1 - Find an answer to this joke - Why are male Lionfish unable to use electric shavers?
Q. 2 - What does the genus name Apistogramma mean?
Q.3 - What colour would you expect to find on the tip of the dorsal fin of a Black Lancer Catfish?
Q.4 - Which gigantic Chinese freshwater fish is often known as the 'Last Emperor's Fish'?
Q.5 - 'Quiddle' is an alternative name for which well known sea creature?
Q.6 - True or False. The fish Colisa lalia is known in our hobby as the Dwarf Gourami?
The fish in the photograph is the golden version of the Thick-Lipped Gourami, Colisa labiosa. This photograph is copyright of Mr. K. A. Webb
Q.7 - Name the four pigment colours which occur naturally in Goldfish?
Q.8 - What is the scientific name of the Iridescent Flyer?
Q.9 - Upon the body of a Pumpkinseed Sunfish, Lepomis gibbosus, were would you find a 'flash of red'?
Q.10 - In the movie 'ET' what type of fish did Elliot keep in a goldfish bowl?
Q.11 - What is a Garra?
Q.12 - To which country is Malpulutta kretseri endemic?
Photograph of Malpulutta kretseri. Photograph is copyright of Mr. David Armitage. This fish acheived fame when a major aquarium fish food company used it on an endangered species calendar in the early 1980's.
ANSWERS
Question one - Because Lionfish have no mains.
Q.2 - Unreliable line
Q.3 - Black
Q.4 - Amur Sturgeon
Q.5 - The Squid
Q.6 - True
Q.7 - Yellow, black, red, orange
Q.8 - Betta unimaculata
Q.9 - Behind the operculum (gill cover)
Q.10 - Guppies
Q.11 - A loach. A member of the Cyprinid family these fish are cousins to Goldfish and Barbs.
Q.12 - Sri Lanka