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(POSTED: December 4, 2006)
Lobster Quiz
Questions
| Q1. |
What do you call a female lobster? |
| Q2. |
When is a lobster a chicken? |
| Q3. |
When is a lobster a pistol? |
| Q4. |
Why wouldn't a lobsterman with shorts on want to meet a fisheries officer? |
| Q5. |
Why shouldn't a lobster walk into the kitchen? |
| Q6. |
What’s the record for the largest lobster ever caught? |
Answers
| A1. |
A hen. |
| A2. |
When it weighs about one pound. |
| A3. |
When it has no claws, usually because of an encounter with a predator. Fortunately, lobsters regenerate their claws. |
| A4. |
Having shorts on means that he has lobsters that are undersize, and don’t meet the legal limit. Undersize lobsters must be thrown back. |
| A5. |
It’s the first chamber of the lobster trap—the second chamber is called the bedroom or parlor. |
| A6. |
Nova Scotia holds the world record for the biggest lobster ever caught—a whopping 44 1/2 pounder caught in 1977. Imagine all the melted butter you’d need for that guy! |
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