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Is it known which quandles arise as the knot quandle of some knot? I seem - vaguely - to remember hearing that all (finite?) quandles arise this way but I've failed to find a reference to this fact.

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 Personal anecdote, John Stallings showed me the initial knot quandle paper, showing that the quandle did a wonderful job of classifying knots. His comment was that there were plentiful imponderables, such as deciding whether a prescribed quandle was trivial. – Will Jagy Nov 3 2010 at 17:25
what is a quandle? – Paolo Aceto Nov 3 2010 at 18:14
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racks_and_quandles $$ $$ – Will Jagy Nov 3 2010 at 19:16
@Will-Jagy, so a quandle has to have both the right-distributive and the left-distributive properties of a rack, along with having $a\triangleright a=a$ and $a \triangleleft a = a$? Is the matrix-form the best way to represent it? (sorry to be asking another question as a comment...) – sleepless in beantown Nov 7 2010 at 3:48

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