Bad day, got this one error wrong, hopefully will do better tomorrow n Wednesday. I look forward to doing this question thing everyday😊🤪👍

Hi Doug,
I just think that there should be some relationship to model boats rather than obscure (and inaccurate) historical facts. And duplications but they have already been commented on.
Having said that I continue to enjoy this site!
Best wishes
Edward

Cenbeth.
The basic premise of the QotD quiz has always been 'Maritime' not specifically Model Boats.
Aren't there already enough Model Boats specific Qs and As on the Forum itself?
Doug😎

Are these model boating questions???

Briefly put Guys and Gals,
It's a farce! 😠
And not even a funny one, like the Brian Rix farces were😂🤣

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In reality, AI has understood our inner discomfort and wants to bring us all above 90% of correct answers by asking the same questions again.

Good question. Ask the same question tomorrow, make it three in a row

Again and again and again...... 😂

OK, so it was easy enough to answer this one yesterday a week or two after it was previously asked, but asking the same question two days in a row is taking it too far (or maybe too close).

A.I. has no knowledge of time passing and is not in the real world. A concept or an emulation of something real but no knowledge of existance.

Back in the day when computers were the actual centre of many companies, change was resisted as it could also mean a re-write of operational programmes. So some of the new faster and very different advances in computer hardware were able to run an emulation of the previous operating system so the customer ran his workload as before.
It often worked better that way as well!

Our A.I is unreal and does not know that the o/p we see is a 'contested' set of questions, let's hope it never finds out it is at the bottom of the human pecking order!

Roy

We had this one yesterday...

Didn't we have this question already. Ground Hog Days or is it Deja Vue ?😂

Absolutely right Dave.👍
AI is wilfully circumventing Stephen's NO REPEATS order by simple rephrasing the question😠
A clear case of repeatedly Disobeying the Orders of a superior officer!
A Court Martial Offence.
Cheers, Doug😎

That wasn't too difficult, I am sure I have answered the same question with the same answer recently on here.

There seems to be disconnects between places, dates and times with these answers and any internet research.. 🤔

According to ai it was hms a1but there you go
Philuk👍

Took a guess. Wrong....

Yet another submarine question! And yet another wrong answer as I know nothing about subs!

What happened?
No Royal Navy ship disaster today?
So AI has to ask about bulkheads again
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Strong sense of deja vu with today's question.

All you Canadians on the East Answer Question at a little after 8 P/M that way no one will be sending e-mails to remind you to answer the question of the day I think the question is put on the web site at 12 A/M in England I think because it's 10:10 P/M In Canada answer it in 2 hours .

Got this one correct today, just looked the the suggested answers and remembered the time lines of most then chose.

We learn the facts but not the dates!!

I chose the only answer that seemed feasible for the date given, and for once, I got it right!

Hmm!
If I'm not mistaken the Imperial German Navy was already using gyrocompasses (compassi?🤔) in 1908?
Close enough Mr AI.🙄
Ciao, Doug😎

Finally, got this one correct😊👍

The whole K-129 disaster and partial recovery is one of the greatest engineering feats ever attempted.
Howard Hughes helped bankroll a CIA plan to recover the K-129; codenamed Project Azorian. The ship was called the Hughes Glomar Explorer and it managed to lower a giant mechanical gimbal recovery vehicle (affectionately known as Clementine) 16,500 feet and actually managed to embrace a large section of the K129 and raise it. On the way up a mechanical failure with "Clementine" allowed the section to break apart and only about a third of the section was salvaged. Six Soviet sailor's bodies were recovered and given full military burial at see by the American crew of the Glomar. Nuclear tipped torpedoes and some cryptographic machines were also recovered. A model of the wreck based on Project Azorian is attached.

https://deepseamining.ac/article/11#gsc.tab=0

Well, I am a disaster. The only difference between me and the the Titanic is that the Titanic had a band.

I remember the K-129 sinking and operation to eventually locate it. It was on the BBC news a number of times in the 60's. I think the USA eventually helped as they had the deep diving gear that the Russians didn't have.

HI SimpleSailor
I am the same as yoi I know nothing about submarines, so in the end I just took one lucky stab at an answer.
My guess was correct, I could NOT have been luckier.
I am now slowly climbing up the ranking table, I cannot believe it.
I am now Not the lowest on the ranking table showing page. WHOOPEEE !!!😂😂
now I'm speeding🚤🚤along 😊 happily.
That's until tomorrows question.
And the Ranking % drops for No reason every here and there. 🤔🤔.

On these topics (secret military tests and trials) I don't think there are very reliable open sources, especially on the former Soviet Union. I don't think AI (which is wrong on simple and known topics) can be taken seriously.

One positive thing: I discovered that I have never seen the movie K-19, even though it is quite old. I have to recover it and watch it.

Just checking a few calculations. There are 4 scores of 73% and each one is in error.
One should be 95% and the rest descending.
The questions have become obscure, the answers frequently incorrect and the scoring in error.

I rest my case!

Roy

Seems I already answered again, must have been my ghost. I wonder if I got it right?

Well once again the Ai is making it's own history up. After some research and logical deduction I chose what appears to be the wrong answer. My research came up with the K-140 as being the first to fire a submerged salvo.
Quote from records "The first Soviet submarine to try a ballistic missile salvo launch was the Project 667A or Yankee class SSBN K-140. In late 1969, the commander of K-140, Captain 2nd rank Yuri Beketov, was given the task to prepare his crew for the launch of eight R-27 Zyb (SS-N-6 Serb) SLBMs out of the total of 16 carried."

I give up. You go down the ranking for not answering questions and you go down for answering questions that don't actually have the right answers. It would be interesting o know what Ai programme is used to set the questions.

Thats it I really do not care anymore so goodbye to this thread.
Roy

Picked a wrong answer today. Had to guess. Do not know that much about subs🤔😶

O/k waited till 8:12 P/M to answer the Day Question so it must be midnight some were in England so you need not remind me to answer the question & I hope I'll remember to answer Question tomorrow a little after 8:00 P/M Because I think it will be 2025-03-19 some were.😜

Right on Ron👍
Holland 1 is now preserved at the RN Sub Museum in Gosport UK.
But AI screwed up the date yet again🙄
Holland 1 was only launched on 2nd October 1901 and dived for the first time, in a protected basin, on 20 March 1902. Proper sea trials in April 1902.
Cheers, Doug😎

Got this one correct today. It was easy for me as I researched Hollands subs. Live in Nj and close to Paterson NJ as there are two of his subs in a museum🤔👍

Another pile of AI drivel. I went for Shackelton's ship but got it wrong. Aura was lost doe to suspected enemy action in 1917. Declared a total loss by Lloyds in 1918. (Wiki)

Another answer wrong when I checked ai it says I was right.
Philuk👍

I went to answer and was told that I had already answered todays question. This has happened several times in the past.
And it was also the wrong answer.
But then I would also have gone for Endurance and that's what had been answered.
IS AI intervening here on my behalf, I am watching the Australian Grand Prix on SKY and decided to look at todays question at the same time.
I'M annoyed to see someone has put in my incorrect answer that I WOULD have put before me.🤔🤔
HOW does this happen. 👎👎
This is happening too many times, how can my account be opened and this happen ????😠😠😠😠

On no. Got this one wrong. Thought it was the Endurance🙁

I understand you Roy, after several consecutive correct answers (the last one I skipped on purpose, even knowing the answer, was the one on the phone) my percentage has been fixed at 73% for at least two days.
No big deal, but I'm sorry for the lack of national increase.
You should do an exorcism and chase away the elf that is rowing against you.

Yes sir!
The good old B11, first in the Dardanelles. Very famous world renowned ship. Internationally well known loved and remembered, hero of the First World War.
Next question

A lucky guess for me this time!
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Apparently my other self had a go and got it wrong!
Roy

Lucky guess on this one, as it helped me on the standings. Had a lot of wrongs answers but doing better😊👍

As mentioned before:It was B11, but in December 1914 not March 1915. B11 torpedoed the Ottoman battleship Mesûdiye. Again AI has got his calendar in a twist.
Wrong in the question, correct in the answers.
I despair🙄🤔

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Canada 62% I guess all the Canadian participant's are thinking more about Tariffs and buying Canadian or are to busy thinking what little Donny's going to do today to the rest of the world I will stop posting political thinks SORRY.