The answer to the 9/11 question is "none of the above".
The Kyrenia sank around 400BC and was discovered in 1965.
The Mary Rose was discovered in 1971 and raised in 1982
Since no answers were correct, I chose not to answer.
I'm sure this is a recycled question.
Dave

Agreed I am out of this quizz
Austing😆

I totally agree with Doug & Newby7 Let’s post builds & ask/answer questions pertaining to model building rather than getting upset & posting about AI’s continuous inanities. ☀️☀️☀️

Maybe we need a reset back to when we looked at new posts to read or to answer a question a member needed to carry on with thier project .
Must admit that I have not been posting much of late.
It seams life gets in the way and we forget that this forum is still the best going and our members continue to be active.
As Doug has said PS 'You need to answer today's "Question of the Day"before veiwing this post!
NO I DON'T👍👍👍👍👍
Rick

Hi all, I put together a few Quizzes for our club some years back. It is not easy but at least they were valid questions and mostly right answers.

I would warn all before the quiz that I am happy to receive any queries about the answers I provide, all written on either side of a £5 note, which is non-refundable. I think it would be a £10 now!

It cut any arguments!

Roy

@Doug

The best sentence of all time! 👌👌👌

it is time to send the AI back to school, or better into Digital Valhalla.

Thanks, Michel-C.

PS: QotD 10.9.24.
Yet another repeat!!!☹️
AI GO HOME😠😠

😎

Hmm! We're into a string of repeat questions🙄 Most of which are themselves questionable.
And sure enough the corresponding 'comments' to them are also repeating.
As WCMBC wrote, "Sorry SA. I'm leaving this codswallop👎👎👎", so have I.
The poor old cods have been walloped enough.

It's long since time to stop this nonsense. It has missed it's original objective of promoting maritime knowledge amongst our members. Although I do acknowledge that the ensuing debates have contributed to our general maritime awareness. but PLEASE not ad infinitum with the same same daft questions.
QotD, and to a lesser extent Wordle, are strangling this once wonderful site.
I've been tracking the 'Notifications' I still receive (despite recently 'cancelling' Quiz Notifications in my account😠) and I find that on average 80% are QotD or Wordle related. Mostly QotD debates over the AI cock ups.
Actual Model Boat related postings have significantly declined continuously since the introduction of these quizzes. Many of our once stalwart and expert contributors have gone silent☹️
Since the AI is obviously incapable of finding sensible questions, and checking that they ARE new have not been asked before and are truly maritime related (e.g. not CAPTAIN Hastings of the Poirot stories or CAPTAIN Peacock from 'Are you being served?') it is time to send the AI back to school, or better into Digital Valhalla.

@stephen (Fireboat) PLEASE can we scrap this nonsense and go back to the annual Christmas Quiz, with prizes donated by members? I would be happy (as before) to donate prizes from my plans, kits, books collection.
That would once again be something to look forward to once a year, rather than the current daily DREAD!!

G'night All, Sweet dreams, Doug😎
Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite😁😁😁

PS 'You need to answer today's 'Question of the Day' before viewing this post!'
No I don't! 😉😜

Yep, the Tomahawk can due just about anything these days. All four SSGN's Guided Missile subs (converted SSBN's) can launch 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles if required with "dial-a-yield" capacity of 5 to 200 Kilotons each. A scary thought.

Another BS question, cruise missiles can be launched by aircraft, ships and land based launchers as well as subs. The the same goes for ballistic missiles. So todays answer should be B and C or either. 🤔

Wrong button

Even after fact checking I wasn't sure if our AI would know what a personal flotation device is called. Turns out he she it they them is not so woke after all.😁

Roy the answer to your dilemma is the “fact” that China has inflatable stealth submarines.😂

Hey Rudy, facts on the internet 🤔
Next joke 🤣

I googled this morning to find China had 85 subs. Now it is only 65.
Nothing on the news about 20 missing subs or maybe I need to go to Specsavers, (again).
Roy

So who broke the internet? Not even facts are real anymore.

I went straight for Russia as that is who I thought would have been the the one with the largest fleet of Subs. Only to get it wrong.I have been floating at 96% for the last few days questions, and now dropped down to 92%. Bummer. I would have thought if not Russia it would have been America, never in my mind come up with China.

I have also now just Googled this and according to Google this is what the answer has come up as.

Russia has the largest submarine fleet in the world, with 65 submarines, followed by the U.S. with 64 and China with 61. Together, these three countries account for 40% of the world's submarine fleet.

So who is correct?

But it also says that America has the largest fleet of Nuclear powered Submarines in the world, 66 in total. So that beats Russia's 65 Submarines, So what is the answer,
If Google can contradict itself then who can get it correct ???
I'm lost completely.

And I might add it’s quality not quantity that’s the name of the game.

The only reason I put down China was that yesterday I saw a diagram of the top 10 and that listed China as number one, I thought that Russia was one and USA was two. I was doing research for my RC submarine when this popped up.
🤔

Let me guess. The USA? Simply because they always claim to be bigger better and smarter. One this is peculiar though. They never claimed to have the best education system or the most teachers. Trumps-up to the US👍👍👍 🤣🤣 Oh no. The AI is in the retirement home. It forgot about Russia. Sorry SA. I'm leaving this codswa
llop👎👎👎

China 61
Russia 65

Again this is getting ridiculous. I don't mind getting penalized for a wrong answer, but when the AI is completely wrong in its choice of answer I think we should be awarded compensation points. Who is the referee for the question page?

Russia Russia Russia, same souce as DW...

I don't mind getting answers wrong, BUT I do mind getting them counted as wrong when I am correct!

"Russia has the largest submarine fleet in the world, with 65 submarines as of July 2024. The United States is second with 64 submarines, and China is third with 61. Together, these three countries have 40% of the world's submarine fleet."

This, verified by several sites .....

I think there is something going wrong as I have been advised again I have answered the QoD before. No score change except when I entered the wrong answer again.

I feel I am letting my country down!
Roy

The Government here are threatening me with deportation to Rwanda unless I buck my ideas up and improve my standing in the world quiz. Apparently there are lots of spare flights going for some reason or other.😬

Another repeat, I put keel before and got it wrong and so I put hull, wrong again. BUT my significant 'other' has been there before me!!!
I am being haunted on-line!
Roy

Dave. This is a repeat question. I picked “ running” the first time which although correct was pronounced as wrong. Knowing that I should not have participated in this one but did; with “close reach” as my pick even though I knew it was incorrect. I’m not even a sailing participant. 😠

Dave. . .
Take it easy, the best way!!!
👍👌🤣🤣🤣🤣
Michel-C.

As Simplesailor's chart shows, the only answer that is remotely correct is "Running".
The AI answer "Close Reach" is the most far from correct of the choices as it is by definition sailing into the wind.
My gut told me this was another of those questions left unanswered because Broad Reach was not a choice. So picking whatever choice AI thinks is the answer was a shot in the dark.
Running was my pick, because all sailing downwind is essentially some form of "Running" with the wind.
Frustrating .....
Dave B

Raumschott heisst es bei uns . . Close reach 🤔🤔🤔
Englischsprachige, komplizierte Sprache!

Room bulkhead is our name . . Close reach 🤔🤔🤔🤔
English language, complicated language!

😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫. Michel-C.

And therewith I start my golf game. The point of sail has nothing to do where the wind is behind the boat. If the wind is slightly behind the boat it means its at 89 degrees aft. That is not close reach. If its coming directly from the back you can still point close reach but it will be wasting sail space.

The quiz master said I have already answered this question. It is my ruddy alter ego again!
Roy

Oh! no it is'nt!!!!!
Roy

Right complete guess on my part I am no sailor😁
Philiuk👍

Absolutley right Simplesailor - we are in for some fun in real life when AI starts getting even basic things wrong - just imagine when it takes over calculating taxes we owe - we will probably be thrown into debtors prison for the taxes we do not really owe.

Well the AI has that wrong. This is from the Royal Yachting Association.

huh?

If the wind is coming from an angle behind the boat, to my understanding that’s a broad reach, a close reach is somewhere between the wind coming abeam to over the bow at an angle.

There was a very good episode on a paddle steamer in Egypt!

But he is not the type to be too close to because of all the crime around him, dodgy altogether.
Captain Hastings is a product of the private schools in the early 1900s, terribly nice been in the army and trades on his last rank of Captain, but a good gopher.

However the actual filming is a delight and alternate episodes were directed by their own team and both won awards.
I love the old London taxis used and had a dinky toy model of one when younger.

The series could not go on forever and eventually he dies on his last case!

Other actors have tried their hand in the role but pale (especially the current one) into insignificance in comparison to David Suchet. Some might note his brother was a TV newsreader.
I should add I did like Peter Ustinov in the part!

Roy

Another marine related question🤔

Perhaps it will be more fun if we played golf and enter wrong answers only. Lets see who gets the lowest score😜

I’ve had enough, no more stupid questions to answer, what a waste of time.I’m out of the quiz from now on.am I taking this too serious?. After all we only play against ourselves. It’s frustrating when you interpret a question one way only to find the question setter, says you are wrong I was looking at from this perspective,

It changes every time the boat reverses direction. They have a special crew member on board. LAMP CHANGER. Bit of a tedious job, but necessary. The job description goes something like:

MUST BE ABLE TO CHANGE ALL LIGHT BULBS SIDE-TO-SIDE AND END-TO-END WHILE AT TERMINAL LOADING AND UNLOADING CARGO AND PASSENGERS.

What!?! You don't believe me? Look it up!

The more modern double-enders have 2 different bulbs at each lamp and a switch connected to the ENGINE REVERSE. Wired sorta like back-up lights on the cars

And what happens with a double ended ferry?☹️

I simple put down"the other side"....😀

So what you are saying is:

TO QUAY OR NOT TO QUAY, THAT IS THE QUESTION!

(yes, I'm leaving now)

If you're standing on the quay, the left side will be irrelevant. You will be more worried about the shore side and the sea side.

We've been here before.
The answer could be port or starboard, depending on whether you are standing on the boat facing the bow, or off the boat facing the bow.😉

If England is more advanced I feel sorrry for the Canadians.
Roy