Got that one
Ask me same question tomorrow

Here you go Roy😉
One for you, so, Stage centre, knock yourself out😁

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I agree with Harwind. I chose answer "A" because I don't think the flag in question actually exists. Where does the Ai get it's info from?

The dive flag used in the UK is the International maritime signal flag Alpha, or "A". It's a blue and white pennant tail flag, except for the United States is a red flag with a white diagonal stripe. It's also known as the diver-down flag.

Oh dear Oh very dear!☹️
I'm sure our Mexican members will be most upset at the way this question (24.01.25) was posed!
The US has nothing to do with it.
At least not so far, maybe DJT will make a grab for it?
Oh sorry. I forgot. Mexico will be walled off☹️
BTW Another repeat.
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Should have been more specific by saying 'YOUR left hand side of the boat when facing towards the stern'.😊

After reading the question 3 times, I answered correctly.
But, since when is the right or left side of a car-boat-plane-etc described as if one is facing the rear?

Sneaky question

Rubbish!

Roman, you have obviously offended AI and it’s out to get you 🤣

Wonder why, as I get more correct answers, my score goes down?

Deja vu³ 🙄

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Blame it on dear Viktor Peter.
He's upset the EU once too often so they removed Hungary from the map😁
Shame coz I've been thinking of visiting Lake Balaton for some time.
Came close when I was cruising around SE Austria and was in Gornja Ragona in Slovenia but never quite made it.
Hang in there Pete🤞

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This question must have been asked 3 times now. How can I get it wrong every time! By the way, Hungary is still here as far aes I know but still missing from the list above. This happened last time there was a score process change.🤗

Anyone know the total number of questions asked, including repeats?
Roy

As I said, the only way would be down, even if I got it correct. 🤣

It is bit annoying. I have been at 100% all week and today I log in and find I am at 89%. The explanations given the past make no logical sense to me🤔.

Boatshed
It’s weekend!! So just relax do everything to ease your mind! Nothing should turn you on and remember don’t let your blood pressure rise.
It’s all part of the game! Not more not less😂😂😂

Yes as I predicted, I dropped back down from the 91% from yesterday to 90% and answered todays correctly. Still 90% stupid game.
I don't know why I answer these questions but I think it's just to try to keep my brain functioning.
Trying to keep dementia away, I suppose.

Hi Doug as a latter time exponent of the Rumba my experience was that we were remarkably sober when dancing. I danced Latin and Ballroom for over 25 years with several different partners. The dancing these days is wiggle and jiggle and no art form as such.
The best and less known of the dances are from Argentina with their Argentine tango Tango-waltz and the Milonga.

As Michael Caine might say.
"Not many people know that"

Strangely enough men with a maths background are attracted to dancing as it is precise and several dances have interchangelable steps sequences. Just the timing differs. The ladies will dance with anyone who can keep time and their hands from wandering.

Line dancing is the sloppy end of dancing and here I would agree with Doug many of the dancers look 2 sheets to the wind if not actually inebriated.

Roy

I hear complaints that scores have gone down since the change, but has Hungary 🇭🇺 left the planet!😐🤔

No problem Jump😊
You drink, you fall over. No problem😁
'Hooray and up she rises early in the morning'.
Cheers, Down the hatch. Doug😎
PS, A tangential thought: I've sometimes wondered if Rum helped to inspire the creator of the Rumba!?🤔
Do anything you want but don't you step on my blue suede shoes!😂🤣
On that inspiring note🙄, G'night All💤💤💤💤

After a solid week I have stumbled mightily the last two days. Must be the rum that got left behind by one of my kids during Christmas.
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Hi Nick,
Re "I've been at 100% for weeks yet now I find it down to 88%! "
Similar here Nick, down from 100% to 92%☹️
As Stephen announced; he has changed the system from last 30 days to a total aggregate score as a %age of right answers. Presumably dating back to the inception of the QoTD contest.
Thus our sins of the past (duff answers) are now catching up with us🤔
Cheers, Doug😎

Hi Stephen,
Thanks for your explanation to Boatshed.
I've tried several times to explain the 30 day system, including arithmetic examples, but with some it just doesn't gel. We're all built differently thank God (whoever he/she is), some are engineers and mathematically minded (like me) some are artists etc etc.
Re the new aggregate system ...
Any chance of a Top Ten list of the best of the best individuals?
(Hmm! Considering the number of repeated questions that could turn out to be a Memory Test for us Old Fogies😁)
Cheers, Doug😎

Nick the steam
It is the circle of life unfortunately.
Some things are more important than a score. Don’t let your blood pressure rise because of it👍

Just changed it.

Lets see how you all get on with all-time averages 😁 😁 😁

Shouldn't have to worry about scores changing when not answering anything now 👍

Stephen

I've been at 100% for weeks yet now I find it down to 88%!

To me that makes no sense, I don't understand it. Come tomorrow, as once again tomorrow NEVER comes I could drop back again to 90% by what you say.
I'm lost by it all. It hurts 🤕my brain, that's if I have one.🤔

Hi Boatshed,

It’s based on the last 30 days. So if 30 days ago you answered correctly, it may go to 91%, but once tomorrow comes, that win 30 days ago is then 31 days ago, taking you back to 90%…

Your last 30 days is constantly changing! Maybe it should be based on all-time records?

Stephen

When I answered yesterday I went up from 90% to 91%
I have opened up today to find I only have 90% again answered to days question and it's back up to 91%, Whats going on it's a bit of a con somewhere down the line I think. ??????

Oh dear! My partner here in Germany (wer auch immer das ist?) got it wrong again🙄
Maybe he wasn't already a member the last time we had this question, or is too young to remember such events.
Hey ho. Doug😎

On a hot streak, but how long before I screw it up?!
Oh wait…I have probably just jinxed myself. Dammit!
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In Roy’s wise words, finally 100% so the only way is down.
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Har!!

‘Tis North Carolina ye’ bilge rat!

Well said Dougal, I was picturing Blackbeard on the bridge as she sank. Yelling out "Keep that orchestra playing or I'll have their guts for garters"!

Roy

But I so wanted to believe it was the Titanic 🤣🤣🤣

Haiti? My-hiti!😁 Another repeat, with the same mistake as before.
Blackbeard ran his ship aground off Beaufort Inlet, North Carolina. The wreck was found in 1996.
However, everyone should get this right coz the other three options are so obviously ludicrous.
🙄 Cheers All, Doug😎

O/K AI is stupid you need to ask the proper question to get answers what ship did Lemuel Gulliver sail on was it the Hopewell
Yes, Lemuel Gulliver, the protagonist of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels," did sail on a ship called the Hopewell. In the book, he embarks on multiple voyages, and the Hopewell is one of the ships he sails on during his adventures.

Sorry Garth but your AI is another example of Artificial Ignorance.
David Balfour (Kidnapped) only sailed on the Brig Covenant, supposed to take him into slavery in the Carolinas but was driven back to Scotland by gales.
In part eight of Gullivers travels he sails to the East Indies with Capt. Robinson aboard the Hopewell.
Cheers, Doug😎
BTW: The real Hopewell was a Pilgrim ship which left London, England mid April of 1635 bound for America, master William Bundocke, arriving in Massachusetts Bay.

I ask my A.I and it check twice Answer was are you sure I think it was Lemuel Gulliver
I double-checked, and it looks like the correct answer is indeed David Balfour from "Kidnapped" by Robert Louis Stevenson. Lemuel Gulliver is the protagonist of "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift, but he didn't sail on a ship called the Hopewell.

Got the bug from his predecessor Old Cal Coolidge.
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Just as well as I got it wrong last time!
Greetings to all for the new year and only 356 questions to go!

Roy

Deja vu .. Again🙄

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Yay! I knew this one from an episode of “Vera” or “The Bay,” just can’t remember which one it was mentioned in.
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I suppose it would have been a bit lonely as a crewman on a canoe!😀
Roy

It would have been a bit embarrassing to get today's question wrong seeing I'm a Crewman in the RNLI 😁

Merry Roger is a new one on me!!!

Hi all just got to 100% for the first time! Now the only way is down.
Roy