re word of day can't the clues be be removed

Thought that was a sword (Game of Thrones)

I tapped VIEW RESULTS in the upper right corner and it came back

Ok Gents:
You're going to think I'm nuts or at least slacking off, but where is the question?

So Doug

I can see they didn't have to replace your funny bone😁

@roycv Funny! I thought Friday was stuck on a Caribbean Island with Crusoe!🤔
What was he doing trolling about in the Himalayas??😉

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the question about a narrow passage of water fooled me must have had a dim moment flopped on that on

Doug

Johnny Horton song




SINK THE BISMARCK

First lines of the song

IN MAY OF 1941 THE WAR HAD JUST BEGUN
THE GERMANS HAD THE BIGGEST SHIP. IT HAD THE BIGGEST GUNS

@RossM
You piqued my curiosity! Johnny who?🤔
😎

My money is on when did they conquer Everest for Friday.
Roy

I am afraid to ask what the QOD for June 6th will be

I wondered if this might be the question for today as it is again an anniversary.

Roy

That is a very topical question,as the anniversary is today 24th. May.
Roy

Ok How many of you heard the first line of Johnny Horton's song playing in their head?

Or perhaps part nearest the accident.
Roy

@RossM Or 'Sharp end'? 😮😕

MAY 22, No choice named THE POINTY END?!?

Scoring fixed 👍

Perhaps its drunk with power thats why its got a hiccup
Philuk👍

scoring has a hiccup. it is posting results totalling 31 days

Well today was easy wish they were all like that

Well, my 404 error messages just stopped and "permission to come aboard sir."
Happy to be back!
😀

@RonH I agree it was brilliant as it was this comes up sometimes up with all sorts of messages change is good if for reason if just for change sake seems daft a poll would have been good

Took a bit of doing but got there today bit silly but i got it, i think a i is taking the wiss it goes with silly look of the site in general how old are we all, are they trying to attract young kids on site? Still not sure but all the bits ate here whete the score athe the bottom so we know what we have missed.

@SouthportPat: I agree with you Pat. However it could be the Ai lulling us into a false sense of security before increasing the complexity of the questions. Watch out..😉

Is it me or are these questions getting a lot easier these days - perhaps someone has had a word with AI and he has listened but ATM there is nothing to tax the brain !! Just my opinion - anyone else think the same ?

Hello ship modelers, we've covered this topic in several very interesting threads.

Now, to understand how Stephen (Fireboat) great did, just search for a keyword (which I remembered related to this topic) and easily find all the threads and posts addressing the topic (because the search was done in the texts, not just the titles), even though they were very old.
It was impossible before. There's always room for improvement.

I don't like it at all! Please return to the old format, or at least hold a poll because from what I can see there are more against than for. I haven't been able to find my Harbour or threads that I have followed. Sorry, but I can't get my head round this new format, the old one was well well better...

That works
Thanks

Hi Ron,

You can change the default sort order to Newest first, that’ll flip things in forum threads so the newest posts are always shown first.

I’ll make this the default later on once I’m home.

Also looking at your screen - far too many ads. I know you’re a basic member, but I think some of those ads are overly obtrusive. I’ll look into that too.

@chugalone100 - what’s not working for you?

Thanks for the screenshots too. I can’t login as everyone, so it’s useful to see what others are seeing.

Thanks,
Stephen

I see EDW has made a response to RonH but here again I am not able to Read and Reply because I get this on my screen and the first message on ghe screen was when Stephen introduces beginning this Question of the Day.

Sorry guys, but this new system is not working for me.

I can understand the frustration of this new site. For instance, in my emails I see this message,
But when I click on Read and Reply I get this screen .

It doesn’t go directly to the person’s comment but instead I have to read through ALL the responses from day 1 to find the comment made by RonH

That’s Frustrating!

Ron
The site takes a bit of getting used to but when you do it is great. The site reflects the modern user interface on websites and as technology moves forward features used on the old website stand to stop working.
If you are experiencing lag, check your browser is up to date.
If had issues with performance of my old iPad so I switched over to my new laptop, the difference was fantastic
Regards
Ed

Sent out a reply on the new Question of the day and no reply. The change to this and the whole website is terrible. Very slow and difficult to move around. Who ever decided to change this should reconsider that they destroyed this site and will be loosing people to other forums that are easier to manage. The old style “Question of the day” had me opening up the site everyday, then once done I would look at other posts. I am sure that no one will answer me on this as it is hard to reply on a individual post🤔😕

What happened to the website? I use to like the question of the day and now it has changed. This helped me everyday to go on this web page and while doing the question of the day I would also look at the forum for information. Bad decision to change and now I will not be looking at this everyday. There are other forums out there and now I will be looking elsewhere 😕

Capital idea!

I agree SS Great Britain was made from iron not steel - I only selected Great Britain as I knew what they meant but it does not alter the fact AI was wong

This answer also contains inconsistencies with the question, but it's certainly understandable when compared to the other options.
What is meant by ancient Egypt?
We're thinking more of the era of the pharaohs than the Arabs.
It's true, however, that the shape of the boat has remained very similar, even though the term is from a later period.

This is not the crew AI wants to tangle with when the discussion turns to ancient maritime construction☺️

I think I have heard the name SS Servia as the first all steel hull. Anyone heard different?
Roy

Hello everyone, ship modelers and followers (even those who always say they're abandoning the "question of the day" and then continue to participate assiduously) of the question of the day.
As I've already said, I think the answer can be changed or dismissed for everyone, because there's room for interpretation.
I say this because I understand that common parlance has its own customs and we need to be flexible and understanding.

However, if we want to be precise and rigorous (perhaps even restrictive), iron is not an alloy; it is a metal, and more precisely, it is a chemical element with atomic number 26. Its symbol is Fe, from the Latin ferrum (which in Italy we call "ferro").
Calling mild steel or extra mild steel iron is commonly accepted in commercial and industrial settings, and in common parlance, but it's inappropriate.
Also because dealing with pure (real) iron is rather rare and unlikely. This must be understood.
I believe it's the same in your Anglo-Saxon countries, but correct me if I'm wrong.

Then there's another issue: if it's true that Henry Bessemer patented the Bessmer converter in 1856, making low-cost industrial mass production possible, it's also true that that wasn't the birth date of steel.
Absolutely not, we can't date the birth of steel back to 1956.
It's a very important milestone, but it's not the beginning.
Steel was born in ancient times.
The first finds of steel products produced by heating iron with charcoal date back to 1800 BC in Anatolia.
In 300 AD, Wootz steel was created in India, a high-purity alloy produced in crucibles, the ancestor of the famous Damascus steel.
In 1740, in the United Kingdom, Benjamin Huntsman rediscovered the crucible technique in Europe, enabling the production of superior quality (considered modern steel).
In 1783, H. Cort adopted a new method (puddling) that consisted of using coal instead of wood.
In 1856, Henry Bessemer patented the Bessemer converter, making low-cost industrial mass production possible.
In 1913, Harry Brearley in Sheffield discovered the corrosion-resistant alloy (stainless steel).
And I've left out many intermediate stages that occurred in the classical and medieval ages, as well as the more modern evolutions of special steels.
This is to clarify what I mean. Steel was born well before 1856.

So, if we want to talk about iron even when we're talking about steel, that's fine, but we must be aware that we're playing on a question of lemma.
To accommodate the opinions expressed so far, it can be said that the first ship built with "mass-produced steel" was not the SS Great Britain.

This is simply my opinion (which is debatable).

The only thing I can say about todays question is, I got it right. However I did have help. Stephen might have missed it in his update of the site. Prior to the update you couldn't see conversations about the days question but now you can.

Wrought iron is not steel. One more wrong answer and it all becomes a guessing game, not for me
Roy

The correct answer is Titanic.
The Great Britain was built from Iron in the early 1840s, the Bessemer Furnace, the first way to produce steel comercially, was invented in the 1850s.

Good morning, sorry, I don't want to contradict anyone, but I'll give you my opinion on the matter, and I'm sorry that this time the AI ​​is right. However, those who claimed the answer was wrong are not entirely wrong.

Even in high school [1st grade, 14 years old] I learned that (in practice) we never have iron (in the true sense of the word) but always steel because a small percentage of carbon is always present in industrial uses.
If the percentage exceeds a certain limit, we're talking about cast iron.
In the naval sector, we almost exclusively talk about steel. Pure iron is not used for structural purposes because it is too soft, heavy, and vulnerable to corrosion.
Today, what we commonly call "iron" in shipyards is actually mild steel.

It is true, however, that the iron used for the SS Great Britain contained lower percentages of carbon than what is considered mild steel today.
So, in my opinion, those who call extra-mild steel iron may be right, based on the common belief that below a certain percentage, we can already call it iron (even if that's not exactly true).

Therefore, given the uncertainty and debatable nature of the answer, I am in favor of resetting and re-asking a new question (or making it acceptable for everyone).

Just my (debatable) opinion.

P.S. Thanks for the return of the confetti, Stephen, hahahaha.

Go back to original this too slow as well as not intuitive Sorry not a fan of this new version

All those four names listed as answers above, none of the ocean lines are the first steel-hulled ships.
RMS Titanic was oldest steel hulled, launched 1911.
SS Normandie was steel hulled launched 1932
SS United States was steel hulled launched 1951
The wrong answer SS Great Britain , launched 1843, she is iron hulled not stee hulled.
The actual correct answer is SS Servia, launched in 1881, it was the first ocean liner build entirely of steel.
You must fix your answers.

Ross, I also believed that the SS Great Britain was built by Brunel out of iron 🤔 and NOT steel 😐😐
Good old Ai again. 😕😞🐥🐥.

S S GREAT BRITIAN WAS WROUGHT IRON NOT STEEL