Cooking with gas here too!

On a roll, all answered correctly recently 😊

I chose…….wisely😁

Pas de Calais
Ärmelkanal
Englischer Kanal
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Ciao, Michel-Cl.

I believe our French members may dispute this question😮
Parce que c'est La Manche!😉
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Well I'm glad I answered that correctly, otherwise it's back to school and 500 lines, 🤣

DG.
Ahhh,all received…over.
Many thanks,and appreciated,
Regards
Bill 👍

I didn't edit your post.. I cut and pasted your question to my post and then answered...

Apologies.. I removed your question.


DG

Dear All.
I note that somehow an extra comment has been added to my posting commencing PLEASE PLEASE in relation to the Brass and Iron Age.
The extra paragraph was not added by me.

DGoss999,not sure how you managed to edit my post but could I politely ask if you could remove the paragraph as I am unable to do so.
Many thanks.
Bill.

" Removed "

I think copper tin and Bronze came before Iron... You need high temp (1500+ deg C) to melt Iron Ore.. Wood/charcoal wont do it...

Its actually stainless steel.
invented by prehistoric men in Sheffield,
in days of old when knights were bold and women wer'nt invented, they drilled a hole in a telegraph pole and stood there quite contented.
Whoops i think ive doubled up on the meds again.

Hi, I thought it was just Yorkshiremen that talked about Brassss.
Roy

Well Bill, I am still in the stone age here in rural Herefordshire.
Cheers Colin.

PLEASE….PLEASE do not now let there be a debate as to which came first BRASS or the IRON AGE or vice versa.
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Yours pleadingly.
Bill

I think the real question is who or when was the line put down? Being brass it may well have been there before the Iron Age!

Who discovered it and how did they trace its' length. Sounds like there was a civilisation there before us.

Perhaps the Hitch Hikers guide could help here? Perhaps someone or perhaps a consortium bought the world but had to have a techie set it all up?

I know my recent replacement of a laptop shows how difficult setting up can be.

The answer is out there!
Roy

This was probably black originally but footfall has worn the paint off to bare metal!.

Are you sure that is the correct line. My map shows it as a black line.😬

The first true system was set up by Jacques Cousteau, around about the end of the war. SCUBA was coined by Christian J. Lambertsen in a patent submitted in 1952, and is the trad name of a diving equipment company in the USA I had to look up the part about Lambertsen, in my old dive manual from when I took my advance dive exame.

This could be one of those things that the sea-farers keep to themselves. So many of them look with scorn on us landlubbers, I expect there are other secrets too.

Like where actually is the tropic of cancer? I have flown over it and never seen it, was Dr. Livingstone secretly looking for it?

And as well, nobody actually found the North Pole, do'nt know why they bothered about looking for the South one, which I always thought was the other end anyway.

I suppose all above our pay grade now especially us pensioners.

regards
Roy

Being a land lubber and never been to sea I would imagine the line is made of cork!!
Also I don’t think the Titanic never went to Cleethorpes, did it? Although it seems to crop up everywhere else.

Nice to see they matched the brickwork with the line.
Is there anything supporting the line underneath?
I can see there would be on land but what holds it up at sea? I suppose the boats just go over it.
Never heard of any shipwrecks because of it. Maybe it was part of the Titanic sinking?

Roy

Been there,I’ve seen it, it’s at Cleethorpes, one question I knew the answer to without guessing.

Scratchbuilder
I am in Peacehaven

Fred.
Great post re the answer.
I wonder how many others (like me)looked at your details to see where you live on the line.
Regards
Bill 👍

Goood question today I did have a little think about the date line then remembered it is far from straight and not 0 degrees either.

Roy

Mouldbuilder - you need to go to the old observatory in Greenwich, and there you can stand with one foot either side of the meridian line.

I went to Greenwich some years ago. I looked for that line all over the place but never found it.😬

Fiddle fingers this morning, hit the wrong answer, must drink more tea 🍵 and steady fingers. Better still, enlarge the screen 😂

Todays question was an easy one for me as the line runs through the village.

Questions are fine, just the right answer does not relate to them!

i can see all answers for a b c d like 7% 10% 5% 79%
but unable to answer it show's correct answer

all better now working fine

Shucks I had it right before the change.
Rick

You may use compasses, but not on each other...
I don't mind having a go at some questions, just shout out and I'll div out my old Admiralty Manual of Seamanship...

Some changes from tomorrow:

* Lots of poor future Q's have been deleted
* They'll be the occasional repeat, as Q's are no longer scheduled, but picked at random, so old ones may come around again
* They'll now be an explanation of why the correct answer is correct and why the other options are not.
* Some Q's will have comical 'incorrect' options, it should be about the fun more than real intelligence after all!
* Most Q's have been checked, so more confidence here, but I can't 100% guarantee something wont slip through the net still. Let's see!
* No more 'who owns this super yacht' type Q's
* Less Q's on sailing and rigging
* As much as possible the Q's are internationally applicable
* Less banana's required 🍌
* Added the %'s of how many have gone for each answer. You can see the number of votes by hovering over the %.

-- If anyone has the enthusiasm to put together more Q's, fun ones! With fun answers, in an excel sheet / google docs, let me know 👍

Thanks,
Stephen

That's the spirit Commodore👍
"XO. Sound General Quarters.
Set charges rail one to 30m, rail two 60m.
We'll squash him like a bug.
All ahead flank. Fire on my mark."

From deep below-
"He's a devil Heini, a devil."
😎

Should have had my coffee first, my negative outcome might have been different

I have not yet begun to fight

Don't give up the ship

I have no opinion on this question or answer as the only reason I ended up with John Paul Jones was a stab in the dark by my trusted (sometimes) question answering finger.😬😬

I am rapidly forming the opinion that the questions emanate from the USA and as a result are possibly weighted politically as seems to be the case with many of the news items we see reported. What's not surprising is that both Barry and Jones were both considered Fathers of the Navy and were both emigrants from the UK.
dave976

Wikipedia states John Paul Jones was the father but sometimes credited to John Barry, John Adams and Joshua humphreys

For me John Barry is a multiple Oscar winner.

i think winning 5 Oscars trumps one third father of American navy and The other J.B. was Irish anyway!
Roy

In response to calls for the creation of a department specifically for naval affairs, President John Adams signed a congressional act establishing the Department of the Navy on April 30, 1798. By the end of 1798, the Navy consisted of 14 completed vessels, with more already under construction.
Naval powe is the natural defense of the United States.

— John Adams
The above unashamedly pinched from Google...

Me too Roy☹️

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I genuinely thought it was John Paul Jones, looked it up afterwards and found several others!
I assume they just had the one Navy?
Roy

Also Joshua Humphreys Nick!
He was the designer / builder of the US navy's first frigates thus pretty much 'creating' the navy.

"Joshua Humphreys (June 17, 1751 – January 12, 1838) was an American ship builder and naval architect. He was the constructor of the original six frigates of the United States Navy and is known as the "Father of the American Navy".[1] "
Hey ho! Any advance on four?🙄
To paraphrase what Ollie frequently said to Stan-
'This is another fine mess we've gotten ourselves into'🤔
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Humphreys

There are three fathers of the US Navy, John Adams, John Paul Jones and John Barry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_Jones
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Barry_(naval_officer)

I missed it. Here I am, a Yank and a Texan to boot….and I blew it. Like Bones would say on Star Trek…”Dammit Cash”🤣

I liked the sailing (ragman) question of the day ( answer Spin...r ). Spent my fair share of time on "stinkpots" too, enjoying water-skiing, fishing and cruising, both salt and fresh 😎 ❣

Stephen - sailing questions are great for us with a background in sailing, but the majority probably do not have that background. If you need sailing related questions to intersperse with all the other topics, maybe some of us with that background can help? Perhaps we should sort some questions direct rather than through an open forum, would hate to give the answers away?