Quiz of the Month April!

[saracen]

This months competition is simple, and hopefully fun!

I will provide you with 8 photographs of beautiful fish, and all you have to do is identify them! Hopefully I have made them challenging, but not too difficult, and I hope you will all have fun and join in!

All entries to me please, by Personal Message or E-mail, by the 29th of April, and the winner will be announced on the 30th.

Good luck everyone!

For the photographs, I have to thank Mark Rosenstein of the <a href='http://fins.actwin.com/index.php' target='_blank'>Fish Information Service</a>, who has kindly given me permission to reproduce his photographs here.

Fish 1

Photograph by Hiroyuki Tanaka

Fish 2

Photograph by Mark Rosenstein

Fish 3

Photograph by Mark Rosenstein

Fish 4

Photograph by Mark Rosenstein

Fish 5

Photograph by Niffken

Fish 6

Photograph by Grey Wyman

Fish 7

Photograph by Mark Rosenstein

Fish 8

Photograph by Charles Kraft

[The fish shed]

Great choice for a quiz. More of these type please. :tup:

PM sent. :tup:

[saracen]

Glad you like it! I had fun making this one!

[KittyKat]

lol do you want scientific names or common names?

[saracen]

Just common names this month.... we will get more complicated after I have settled in a bit!

[Sam]

lol, Well done making a proper quiz Saracen :tup:

Mine left a lot to be deisred, especially the subjects I made quizes on (saying as it is a fish site)

[Mick e. t.]

Great idea for a quiz, dont think you should of given a source link I think you will be picking winner out of a hat (if you know what I mean) :lol2:

[saracen]

Great idea for a quiz, dont think you should of given a source link I think you will be picking winner out of a hat (if you know what I mean) :lol2:

I'm trusting in the good concience (sp?) of my entrants! Or giving clues, see it as you will.... Haven't got a full house yet folks, so the comp is still wide open!

And where is your entry Mick? Hmm? :bmp:

[Mick e. t.]

I,m thinking I'll opt for the fith amendment in this instance :rolleyes: :lol1:

[tankgirl]

sheesh!! great idea!! but i will have to do LOADS of research, which is GREAT!

[saracen]

Go for it TG! The field is still wide open! Hope you enjoy entering!

[Apocalypse]

Email and PM sent. :tup:

[saracen]

Thanks for all your entries folks, but we could always do with a few more!

Come on and have a go!

[The fish shed]

Can I try again please ?

[saracen]

The contest is now closed!

A big <span style='font-size:14pt;line-height:100%'>BIG</span> thank you to everyone who joined in, we really do appreciate it, and we hope you all had fun entering!

Feedback is always welcome, so I would love you to drop me a line, and tell me what kind of Quiz you would like to see. Do you want them all fishy? Or would you like some other types....like, name the famous faces? I do intend to do a live quiz at some point, so do come and join in for that one!

Anyway....... the answers are....

1) Flame Hawk - Neocirrhitus Armatus

2) Moorish Idol - Zanclus comutus

3) Royal Gramma - Gramma loreto

4) Clown Trigger - Balistoides conspicillum

5) Polka Dot Cat/Angel cat(or any one of a million other common names!) - Synodontis angelicus

6) Wolf Cichlid - Parachromis Dovii

7) Firemouth - Thorichthys meeki

Endlers livebearer - Poecillia sp. Endlers (sorry, cant remember what the new clasification s... )

I did take the common names, so no one was marked down for not sending scientific ones!

I had LOADS of entries, and I was really pleased to see you all did so well! Thank you once again for entering, and taking the time to do such a wonderful job.

I had 4 entries that had the magical 8/8, and I really did put them into a hat.... It was drawn by my glamourous assistant, complete with sequins, the lovely husband, Mike!

And the winner is........Drumroll please.........






<span style='font-size:21pt;line-height:100%'><span style='color:red'>SURFACE!</span></span>

Congratulations Surface! And once again, thanks to all who entered, and I hpe you will be entering next months too!