Wednesday 25th February 2026
Difficulty: Medium
Sardines (#1,195)
Photo: Alastair Cassels (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Sardine (and pilchard) are common names for various species of small, oily forage fish in the herring suborder Clupeoidei.
1. What method of fishing is most often used to catch sardines?
2. The phrase "packed like sardines" dates from...when (according to Wikipedia)?
3. Which British TV series's first episode featured a group of adults playing the children's game "sardines" (a variation of hide-and-seek)?
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