Hi Guys. The ability to see past questions is certainly to do with if you pay or not. I do not pay a monthly fee, but on occasion give a donation. It clearly says that you can only see past questions if you pay. However when I have donated I have NOT been able to see past questions. I was going to complain but life is too short 😁

Hi Alessandro, I doubt if it is paid or unpaid but it could be due to the browser you are using. Actions of Code in a web page can vary from browser to browser. This is one of the biggest headaches to coders in web development.
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The Venetian lagoon? wasn't there a movie made made about that place. The Creature From The Black Lagoon?
I certainly would not swim in it.....🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hi Edw, hi Austin.
I don't think it's what Edw says.
It's a paid privilege.
The reality (if I'm wrong, the more attentive and experienced members will correct me) is that Edw can view and answer questions from past days.
Austin can't; he can only see and answer the current day's question.
This is because Edw is a bronze member while Austin isn't.
Those who don't pay don't have this privilege.
Austin, can you see questions from past days?
I don't think so.

Thank you

To go back to a date can be a slow process if the date is way back. Above the current question is a series of date tabs, click on the left most one and they will scroll across. Keep doing that till you see one that is grey. Click on it and that days question will appear.
Good luck🤞

Hi Edw, How do you go back to that day for unanswered questions

I'm glad I knew Janet's dive fast or it would have been a guess today

Hi Roy, the grey dash is an unanswered question, you can go back to that day and answer the question and the grey will hopefully go green and up your standing.😁

Hi Ed but usually I wait maybe 10 seconds and watch it update. Is this a possible reason why because the page did not update we have what becomes an unanswered question? I have a grey dash working its way across,
Roy

Roy, web pages do not update automatically, the require input to force an update. Clicking in the grey would provide that type of stimulus.
Refreshing the page would achieve this as well.

Interesting! I got the question right but it still registered unanswered, I waited but still a grey dash. I clicked on the grey dash and it changed to answered and the score increased.
Roy

Twitching now is it?

Good old David Attenborough helps again with this one 👍 😀..
I only got involved with the question of the day because I spent ages reading all the amusing and very funny comments that had been posted about the quiz 😂😀 so I thought that I had better join in.
And, it is only fun ...

Point well put !! I do wonder if I take it too seriously !! I do find some of the questions very obsure though and the ones I do get right sometimes it a pprocess of illimination rather than knowing the answer straight away

Spare a thought Pat for these poor people who seem to have no green days in their life. Not sure what causes a grey day, other than the weather 😁

Bloody hell - I thought we was playing a game of nautical knowledge not snakes and ladders lol

Hi Pat the scoring is right. You still have to get rid of 5 incorrect answers before you can reach 100%
Roy

I am sure whoever designed this Algorithm needs to look at it again - for the last seven days I have not got a question wrong but I have gone down the ladder on each day - I rest my case about relying on computers and the internet

The dolphin structures, a new one for me, it seemed like there were 3 dodgy answers and so I went for piles! Ouch!
Roy

Yet another no brainer.
Wow! I’m on a roll.

Hi Jump,
Re "Sounds like a good build idea some day. "
Go for it Jump👍
Would make a great Action addition to your magnificent freighter.
Or are you planning to build a tanker?
Cheers, Doug😎

Tell me about it Ed😉
With my 6' 2" I learned that the hard way very early on!🤕

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Doug, that makes two for us but then the higher you are the harder you fall 🤣

Yahoo!
My last wrong answer vanquished😊
Must now try to keep my nose clean🤔

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Sounds like a good build idea some day.

I was ranked 2nd for ages now relegated to 4th..

You wait Pat, the system will get you before you get to 100%. Either it will swear blind that you have already answered it and got it wrong. That's another point how come when I am told I have already answered it I have always got it wrong!
Then it will disown you and say it refuses to listen to you and so you failed to answer today.

If you have been married for a shed load of years then you will know what this is like on a day to day basis. There is no justice no wrongs are righted and even if you were right anyway it will not work in your favour and so best swept under the carpet.

It encourages you into religion when you can believe that there is a final 'reckonong' after the lights slowly fade away and peace descends at last.
In the meantime I must face reality and next month it will be 62 years and still not allowed to bring my models into the house except for storage.

Roy

I think I am glued to that 5th or 6th place with epoxy glue lol

That one was a no brainer.
Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do.

The boats are built practically in the neighbourhood here. So the question wasn't that difficult for me.😁

That question wasn't too bad today especially if you have seen the Tom Hanks film Captain Philips, I think that was what it is called 🤕 ?
Based on a true story with one of those types of life boats involved in quite a long part of the film 👍..
I can go to bed now happy 😊

How Canadians did privateering

Personally - I dont ask Mr Google unless I get the answer wrong which I do on many accasions - but not many know much more about "life in a blue suite" or sailing ships than me !! 😁😁😁but when it comes to merchant shipping rules and ship design I am lost 😠😠😠😠

All these members with no pink strikes - I wonder how many of them answer themselves or ask Mr Google first - I jest of course - but it may get some heated conversation going - remember it only supposed to be fun 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hi all, what was yesterdays question? as I am pretty sure I answered it.
Roy

Well of course I knew that. I got it wrong just to see if the AI was paying attention.
I thought that this was a model boating web site, not a geology course....😊

I was away yesterday so I missed answering yesterdays question.
And today it says i have already answered ??
And I had not been on it yet???
Why does this happen??
This is not the first time this has happened.

Oh dear I am going down again

This has to be my best run in a long time.
Well for me at least since I have seemed to notice this form of working the % scoring.
12 days in a row of correct answers.
Cannot be bad for me.
I was only getting 2 ot 3 then getting one wrong then drop down again.
Tomorrow is the so called by my wife the unlucky 13. 👎☹️☹️
Never been very supersticious, but we will see what tommorow brings. 🤔🤔🤔🤔

I'll see what I can find in the Euro Shops and Ebay Ross😁😂🤣

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Doug

only if you get it at 'used goods' pricing

Ross, will the one from Turin do?😁

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No TD. I'll settle for splicing the mainbrace.😋
Cheers All, down the hatch.
Doug😎

Without a boom vang you could do a Chinese Gybe.
Roy

Doug

if you keep comin' up with killer jokes like that, bring a shroud, too😁

I'll go back to my room now

Well I am slowly climbing the rigging and to be up there with the rest of the crew.
Philuk👍

Shrouded in mystery this question 😂. Having watch the building of "Arabella" (Acorn to Arabella) and the restoration/building of "Tally Ho" (Samson Boat Company) I would have been mortified if I got it wrong. It is funny how you spend years building boats, tanks, planes, robots etc... and you don't always know exactly what the name of the parts you are fitting are called. I have always visually known what I need to fit and simply said "well it's time to fit the rigging"

Doug,
With your aim, should we lower the poop deck?🤣

Perhaps the boom vang was named after Admiral Vang, who was boomed.😀