Q 01/05

What is fishing with a hook and line called?

A) Jigging

B) Trawling

C) Angling

D) Seining

Answer · why

C) Angling

The hook was formerly called an angle.

Q 02/05

Which fishing line material is prized for near-invisibility underwater thanks to its refractive index?

A) Fluorocarbon

B) Nylon monofilament

C) Braided polyethylene

D) Dacron

Answer · why

A) Fluorocarbon

Fluorocarbon (PVDF) has a refractive index of about 1.42, close to water's 1.33, so fluorocarbon leaders are far less visible to fish than nylon monof...

Q 03/05

The world's oldest known fish hooks, found in Sakitari Cave, Okinawa, are made from what?

A) Whale rib bone

B) Knapped flint

C) Sea snail shells

D) Red deer antler

Answer · why

C) Sea snail shells

Sea snail shells: the Sakitari Cave hooks, carved from shell and dated to between 22,380 and 22,770 years old, were reported in 2016 as the world's ol...

Q 04/05

Which magazine named the fish hook one of the top 20 tools in human history in 2005?

A) Popular Mechanics

B) Forbes

C) National Geographic

D) Time

Answer · why

B) Forbes

Forbes named the fish hook one of the 20 most important tools in human history in 2005, alongside the knife, compass and scythe, noting that humans ha...

Q 05/05

The earliest fishing reels are documented in paintings from which country and era?

A) Rome, Imperial era

B) China, Song dynasty

C) Egypt, New Kingdom

D) Japan, Heian period

Answer · why

B) China, Song dynasty

China, Song dynasty: the earliest known pictures of a fishing reel are Chinese, including Ma Yuan's painting Angler on a Wintry Lake of about 1195.