Good question, let’s have the same one tomorrow, but on the contra lateral side.

I dont know whether i'm coming or going now. Bunged up with sinus trouble and cant think straight.

It's OK Rogal it is just you facing the wrong way.
Roy

The question should have read what side of a ship is to your left when looking towards the stern. I got it right because I applied the mindless thinking process. Knowing the crafters of these quizzes has never set foot onboard.

It all comes down to punctuation - if there was a comma after side, then clearly it refers to the term for left side of the boat - without any punctuation the remainder of the question is in play.

Applied the same principle and got it wrong although I believe I answered correctly, hey ho, not going to lose any sleep 😁

If I am standing on the boat, facing the stern, the side of the boat on my left is the Starboard.
However, the question asked for the "term for the left side of the boat", which is always Port, no matter which way I am facing!
I may have got it counted as wrong, but I answered correctly .....
Dave B

ROGAL118,
Don't you have your shoes on the wrong feet? or is it your feet on the wrong legs? I think I am confused now.
When I had my little boat all though it was only on the Norfolk Broads, RED was PORT left and GREEN was STARBOARD right. That's also what my dad taught me, he was in the navy.

YEP, I got it wrong as well today. I read it about 3 times and still didn't read it correctly. I assumed no matter what way you are the ACTUAL LEFT side of the boat is PORT. Trick question ??

I don’t believe I got today’s question wrong, then I realised I had my socks on the wrong feet. I won them in the Christmas competition a few years ago. The trouble is they didn’t come with instructions for “land lubbers”. Just noticed I was facing the wrong way as well!. Confused now.

We have seen this before and it depends how you read the question. I maintain the left side of the boat is port. The question itself is confusing and not worthy of the Q o D.
Roy

Rubbish!0

Its the same side if you are standing on the peer facing the stern.

I see no ships....

Wrong 😭

The question for tomorrow will probably be, “in 1912 which ship called the Titanic and wasn’t nuclear powered did not sink in the sea of cortez” ????

I had to run to the bathroom after reading the explanation why the correct answer is the correct one. PMSL 😂😂😂😂

I got that one! I read a John Steinbeck book once called The Log from the Sea of Cortez....

I think I got this question wrong last time as well! Gulf of California sounds like a made up name, but what do I know?
Roy

This is exactly why I will never own a model of this ship. It's like the flu.😛And here's a tip on the next question. In which year did the Titanic sink?

Congratulation's Roy, this is it, your lucky day! Let's all drink a toast.
I bet Titanic will be one of the answers again tomorrow.

Oh wow guys I never expected this, I am overwhelmed! Titanic is the answer! May the 18th. is now a special day for me!

I did get the answer right but my finger was shaking as I selected the option.
Looks like it will be a good day.

Roy

Mmmm now that is a very tricky one.🤔🤔🤔

Crackerjack!

I thought if I picked Titanic every time , I would get it correct eventually, today’s the day, yippee.
Strange how something like this can sink a ship.

Good thing Roy gave me the answer to this question might have guest HMS Royal George.😊👍👍👍👍
Rick

As I am soon to launch the Caltex Lumba-Lumba on her “maiden” voyage at the lake my knees have begun to shake. But, first a visit to my cardiologist! 😂

Yoohoo, Roy's favourite question, he'll be a Happy Camper today😁

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On the Boy George issue, I believe Continental Drift moved it from Spithead to Scotland. Well perhaps that was the 1997 discovery.

Captain Hook was Captain of Titanic right?

Alright, the Lusitania is the correct answer, and the Andrea Doria was in the list!! 👍😀

My AI has informed me that.
The shipwreck discovered off the coast of Scotland in 1997, believed to be the remains of the HMS Royal George, which sank in 1782, does not appear in the search results I have. The HMS Royal George is well-documented to have sunk while at anchor off Spithead in 1782, with a tragic loss of life estimated between six hundred and one thousand people1. However, the search results do not confirm the discovery of its remains off the coast of Scotland in 1997. It’s possible that there might be some confusion with another shipwreck or the information might not be widely documented online. For detailed and specific historical shipwreck information, consulting specialized maritime archives or underwater archaeology reports might yield better results. Can I believe you are a intelligent artificial thing that will take over the world one day ?

It was a tough one, but I got it.

Always nice to see the Titanic raising her bow again 😂

Hi Luckduck. it all comes down to whether you are a basic, bronze , silver or gold member. Perhaps in future these separations of the haves and have nots will determine how much enjoyment you are willing to pay for!

This looks like a slippery road to me!

Roy

Roy - with such few answers we need to know, does that mean that AI can take us over, and do its own answers for us - so really we need to do nothing?😭😭 Where will all the fun be?

Hi guys has it come down to trickery is that a word ? I got it right 🤣🤣
Philuk 👍

Always full of controversy but I would like to welcome back Titanic as an option. It seems ages since we have had this option afforded to us.
Unfortunately the answer is very seldom Titanic and I would like to form the TAINT club. The Answer Is Not Titanic.
There could be an apostrophe after the T as in the pantomime audience responses of t'is t'aint and the oft heard expression, look behind you Mr!

Other featured answer options like Lusitania, Bismark and Captain Scott are welcome and we also look forward to the answer being contained in the question, a novel approach not much seen elsewhere.

This forum, this seat of learning, this maritime convocation can only stride forth into the future with such questions, safely in the knowledge that there are so few answers that we need to know.
Roy

Bismark?

That was a pure guess.
Didn’t the Royal George sink off Spithead in the English Channel?

Quote.. "On 29 August 1782, the 100-gun warship Royal George, sunk whilst lying at anchor off Spithead and was Britain's worst shipwreck until the Titanic over a century later."

How did it end up in Scotland??

Wow, this one is difficult
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Im not going to answer this one. Its scary what people believe these days.

How can you get this one wrong?? the answer is in the question?? DERR!!!! Even I found that.😁😁😂

😂 @ Toradog. Yes, the Silent and the Sunken. aka the Quick and the Dead.😎

"Submarines are NOT ships."
"There are two kinds of ships, submarines and targets"😀

Lol Nick and in the USA the ship's crew often boarded the space shuttle and it does not even have a periscope. 😁

A submarine's 'crew' are refered to as the ships company, at least in the UK they are. Ship's company HO!

The first nuclear powered ship, IE surface vessel, was the soviet ice breaker Lenin. Submarines are NOT ships.
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Here we go again. USS Nautilus is a submarine not a ship.