General Knowledge Questions
Oun weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to Mr. M. Mills, " Rock," Durlston, Swanage, for the following :-
Questions on Fish and Fishing
1. Who said " For here's nothing to be got nowadays Unless thou canst fish for 't " ?
2. Who baited his hook with a haunch of venison ?
3. Who " Knows the ways of crabs and lobsters most amazing " 4. What British fish builds a nest ?
5. What fish did Scottish servants decline to eat oftener than five times a week in the eighteenth century ?
6. Fishy disasters : (a) Who died from a surfeit of lampreys ? (b) Who lay no better than dead after eating limpets ? (c) Who was supposed to have been choked to death by a fish bone in his throat ?
7. Can you mention offhand half a dozen adjectives applied to the trout by poets and writers apart from " sea," " loch," river," " burn," yellow," " brown " or " rainbow " ?
8. Who used sting nettle to warm his feet after wading bare- footed, spearing loaches with a fork ?
9. Who wrote " The leaden-eyed shark, the walrus, the turtle " ?
10. Who had a codfish several sizes too large to go into the fore- boot of the coach ?
11. Who wrote " And pikes, the tyrant of the watery plains " ? 12. Who " Was to know what oysters meant and to see a play " ?
13. Who set out with an inadequate supply of H2O to capture the elusive cetacean ?
Answers will be found on page viii.
Previous page
