Hi Pat. I suppose it depends on where you get the information from 😉.

https://etc.usf.edu/maps/pages/10400/10489/10489.htm

Not the person I was thinking of I believe Eratosthenes was the first person to calulate the circumference of the earth - good try though 😀

Eratosthenes

Here's a question for all you nautical people from a simple sailor - who made the determination of Longitude possible thereby making it safer for the navigation at sea

Thanks for that explanation Roy

Good question I have had my laptop on at 0200 GMT and the new day's question has not yet appeared.
Roy

What time zone does the start of the 24 hours relate to?

OK lets go through it. There are 30 dashes under your avatar. Blue is right answer, red is wrong answer and the light grey is failure to answer.

Each day one drops off on the right and another unanswered one comes on to the left in light grey. Your score then drops by 3% and the unanswered heading goes up by one.

You answer correctly and the left dash goes blue and your score goes up 3 %. If wrong it goes red and your score stays as it was.
You have 24 hours to answer the question before the next day, then the dash stays grey.

You can monitor your own score by looking at the dashes blue is one, red and grey are zero, with 30 dashes, i.e. the last 30 answers work their way along. The two columns at the end are headed unanswered and wrong to separate the red and grey.

I think that covers it, so no mysterious algorythms just a bit of arithmetic.
Roy

Well I got my question right but still moved down one place on the ladder - would be interesting to know how the algorithm works

There several graving docks in the Wallasey/Birkenhead dock system, most now filled in but Cammel Lairds maintain one in the West Float. Lairds also have one or two in the yard proper...

Just a good guess today. I have never heard of a dry dock being called a graving dock, but to me it was the only shore based option based on the last part of the question "characterised by permanent shore-based construction rather than being a floating or mobile structure" 😁

The majority of questions can be answered by careful reading of the question, there are usually clues to the answer within. For example, re the question about working condition regs., the answer was obviously (to me at least) the Labour regulations as opposed to SOLAS regs. This last question, regarding dry docks, the fact that the question mentioned attached to the land could only mean the answer was graving dock, as a floating dry dock isn't constrained by land. Careful reading of the question, followed by a process of elimination, starting with the eliminating choices that it could not be before referencing possible answers with the text of the question. As for leader board positions, I never seem to get past third, even after a long run of correct answers. All part of the fun.
I will leave you with this question. If it takes a week to walk a fortnight, how many apples in a barrel of grapes?

Got today’s wrong.
Oh well that’s that, I drop down again. 👎

Thanks - I do enjoy the questions and I never ask Mr Google until I have answered - and then only if I get it wrong

I do find some of the question very obscure - personally - I would like to see more questions about the Royal Navy 😉

I don’t mind the piss taking as long as it stays light hearted

Hi Southport, no offence of course, and you are right about getting the answers right in public as well! So a bit of joshing keeps the banter going.

By the way Fireboat I have missed seeing Titanic as an option lately!

The QoD is a piece of amusement and no one takes it seriously. Many of those at the rear end of the scores have not answered many questions anyway.

I looked at your harbour and the models look great, and so many!
regards
Roy

Yeah,
How about, Where did Nah get the Gopher wood and how long did it take to build the ArK?

Wooah another one right

Roy..

Quote... "I view it as we have to have competitors like you, so that we can feel good about ourselves by beating you.😎"

I love it when comments are put so 'succinctly' 👍👍

I know what your saying but I like my quizzes and aim to win them all but seldom do lol

I would much rather see someone giving proper nautical or modelling question than some of the crap AI is coming up with though

Remember Southport it is the 'taking part' that matters not the winning.😀😀

I view it as we have to have competitors like you, so that we can feel good about ourselves by beating you.😎

Roy

All the crew on my boats keep Schtum, receive no pay and are largely ignored, any talk of them joining a union and it is back in the garage and made ready for the next clearout.
Otherwise I have always thought of myself as a touchy/feely and concerned sort of person.
Roy

Don't know about the Bible - perhaps Nostodamous would be more useful these days !!!

We need some questions from the Bible
How many cubits was Noah’s ark ?
What kinda fish ate up Jonah?😀

Bloody hell I seem to be going down not up :-(

What's it have to do with real boats or seamanship come to that

What a question! That have something to do with model boats? That question must have been written by a lawyer.

Certainly seems very difficult to rise any further up the ladder

I think i am just standing still i answer one right go up then come down again🤔
Philuk👍

Seems the nearer you get to the top the harder it is to mover forward !!!

Great got this correct today, hope this keeps going👍

If you put in todays right answer and the last right answer falls off the end then your stats remain the same
Roy

Well go todays right but my stats don't seem to have changed at all :-(

there most be a ghost name on the forum....;
i answered the question with A and then it says you have already answered the question false with B which i didn't????????,
Who is behind 😂😂😂😂😂

Answer A states “row or sail”, sailing requires a rudder so this answer cannot be correct.

Aw shucks BS🤔😭
That's happened to me a couple of times.
I vowed that there would NOT be a third time.
My motto now-
STRIKE - WHILE THE WALLET IS HOT😛😍😉😋🤑🤑
(And the better half in the shoe shop down the street😁)
Commiserations, Doug😎

Well that’s a lucky guess.
Just taking into account that it says a double ended fishing boat that’s why I went for answer A. It seemed to make more sense to me.
I have been out all day in Great Yarmouth.
We are up here in our motorhome for a few days, we just came back from a bus ride into the main town.
Just chilling now for the rest of the day. The weather is great, but toooo hot for me
I found a stall selling wooden models that slot together and I thought I will get the one of the Titanic on the way back. He was closed when we got back there.
I am not happy about it. I really wanted that one.

I like the Norwegian fishing boats and dim and distant past remembered that Faering just means 4 oars. So a rowing boat and that was the only option.
Roy

Pook!🐱☹️
Another sneaky snake😠

😎

Uhmmm I got this one wrong - so like many I expect I consulted Mr Google - not clear here the answer you gave - but hay ho thats AI for you - its a machine - you cant reason with them

For me this was a hard question as I had to take a bit of time and think about it. Got it correct😊👍

At least with the pink dashes moving left to right you can get an idea of when you might stop oscillating 3% up and down every day 😁. Or is it the blue moving right to left ?

Well got that one wrong

Well I can’t seem to get any further forward - I do wish the questions would stay related to ships and maritime history as well as model boat building

AI is not only taking over the questions, it is now analysing our results to make sure everyone gets a crack at the 100%?????? Can you bribe AI?

Good morning ship modelers. I think Nick and Doug are right, this time we got there by logic. I don't want to speak before time, I'd wait until the end of the day to comment.

Momma, what's one hundred percent?😉😉

Pure logic got me through today.
Must have some Vulcan genes🐱😁

@BOATSHED, Phil & Roy.
This quiz is like Snakes & Ladders.
You spend 30 days struggling up the 100% Ladder,
only to immediately meet a Snake😮 and go slithering back 30 days😠

😎

PhilH
I seem to be just the same.
I get one right then the next few wrong.
It’s like they know I know nothing about sailing and that other SOLAS or whatever it’s called.
They do it on purpose, they keep a check on what I get wrong I think then slip more in on what I don’t about.

No matter what i do I can't seem to be able to get more that 20 questions right and seems to drop back ever night to 63 % then when I get next one right it goes up to 67% but drops down again.
Philuk👍

Personally I don’t mind the history questions - I find the quite interesting although I have caught a few out as being inaccurate

I do however hate the questions on thing like SOLAS regulations - don’t mind collision avoidance regs