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Exploring the Movie 'Fish' and Its Themes

This quiz tests your knowledge about the movie 'Fish', its characters, and themes related to fish symbolism in culture.

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1 What role did Todd Bridges play in the movie Fish?

2 Who played Will in the movie Fish?

3 In the ________ of Buddha the fish symbolize happiness as they have complete freedom of movement in the water.

4 What does the following picture show?  A Whale shark, the world's largest fish, is classified as Vulnerable.   A 3-tonne (3.0 LT; 3.3 ST) great white shark off Isla Guadalupe   An example of zooplankton   These goldband fusiliers are schooling because their swimming is synchronised

5 [43] ________ may approximate pre-jawed fish.

6 Who played Loomis in the movie Fish?

7 Who played Bernice Fish in the movie Fish?

8 What role did Stephen Moore play in the movie Fish?

9 Who played Angela Duncan in the movie Fish?

10 Who played 1 in the movie Fish?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the tropical marine fish razorbelly scad (Alepes kleinii, pictured) has a complicated taxonomic history in which the species has been described and named no less than seven times since 1793, including twice re-classified in 1833.
  • the bagarius, a carnivorous catfish that lives on eating other fish, breeds in rivers prior to the beginning of the annual flood season in southeast Asia.
  • the barndoor skate (pictured) is a species of fish that is threatened with extinction from overfishing despite not being targeted by the commercial fishing industry.
  • the tropical fish cleftbelly trevally (A. atropos, pictured) has no scales on its chest between its pectoral and pelvic fins.
  • the Polish lake Morskie Oko was once called "Fish Lake" due to its natural stock of fish, which are uncommon in lakes and ponds of the Tatra Mountains.
  • the bulb of the Wavy-leafed Soap Plant can be used to wash your hair, to stun fish, to cure rheumatism and to make brushes.
  • the European great raft spider eats small fish and tadpoles.
  • the fish Coreoleuciscus splendidus had a movie named after it in 1999.
  • the Blood Parrot, a cross-bred fish, has neither a binomial nomenclature nor a distinctly known parentage.
  • the bluestripe snapper (pictured) was introduced to Hawaii in the 1950s as a sport fish, and now outcompetes native fish for space and food.
  • the Splittail, a cyprinid fish native to the Central Valley in California, is the sole living member of its genus.
  • the blind crustacean Polycheles typhlops preys on fish and on other crustaceans, probably acting as an ambush predator.
  • the majority of St. Thomas' ciguatera cases are linked to the same species of fish, the bar jack, or Caranx ruber.
  • the spadenose shark (pictured) exhibits the most advanced form of placental reproduction in fishes.
  • the grunion is a sardine-sized fish only found off the coast of California and Baja California that comes up on sandy beaches at very high tides (during the new and full moons) to lay its eggs.
  • the environment of Florida supports the breeding of 34 species of non-native fish, a higher number than any other place on earth.
  • the Gangetic whiting (pictured) is the only known species of fish to host the intestinal parasite Dichelyne alatae.
  • studies of the inshore marine fish small-scale whiting (Sillago parvisquamis, pictured) suggest the female starts life smaller than the male, but grows faster and is larger than the male within two years.
  • some species of fish undergo a genetically programmed sex change during their development.
  • Bubba the Grouper, the first known fish to receive chemotherapy, died recently in Chicago, Illinois.
  • discards are the portion of a catch of fish which is not retained on board during commercial fishing operations and is returned, often dead or dying, to the sea.
  • aquarium filters are necessary to support life as aquaria are relatively small, closed volumes of water compared to the natural environment of most fish.
  • Boneless Fish is a Japanese frozen food made from fish, which is deboned by hand and then glued to its original shape using a food-grade enzyme.
  • pig fat, cannabis oil, fish, scorpions and hot sand were used in various offensive weapons in ancient and medieval warfare.
  • females of the tropical fish subfamily Glandulocaudinae are able to hold sperm in their ovaries for several months.
  • fishes from the genus Alepes are characterised by a curve in their lateral line.
  • Lake Urmia, Iran's largest lake, is too salty to support fish.
  • Lumpsuckers are fish that have modified pelvic fins which have evolved into adhesive discs that allow them to adhere to their substrate.
  • during a flood in 1937, Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky was partially submerged, and a worker caught a two-pound fish in the lobby.
  • in Hindu mythology, Meenakshi was born with three breasts, fish-eyes and a smell of fish.
  • in addition to human spaceflight, there have been many animals in space, including monkeys, apes, mice, dogs, guinea pigs, frogs, rats, cats, tortoises, fish, newts, insects, snails, spiders and nematodes.
  • although related to modern filter feeding baleen whales, the recently discovered prehistoric whale Janjucetus had large serrated teeth implying that it fed on large fish or even sharks.
  • although it is used in aquaculture, there are only two known cases of Palometa being traded as aquarium fish over a five-year period.
  • Ossubtus xinguense is an endangered species of fish that has an unusual downturned mouth which gives the appearance of a beak.
  • Phreatobius cisternarum, a species of catfish, is one of the few fish species that lives underground.
  • climate change and rising ocean acidity are affecting fisheries and modifying fish distributions.
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