Quite right Doug. I must confess, I did panic for a second after reading the question.😃

Simple process of elimination today (Bay of Pigs Day)😁

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Garth: Canadians are too busy digging out from the snow and putting up snow fences along the border ...

There is another thread with my go-to best fake news for a few weeks that Titanic was scuttled! As recent research shows that underneath the name Titanic it reads Olympic.
Roy

I think it is because todays date is also the anniversary of the event as well.
Roy

I'm sure that was the same question as yesterday, slightly rephrased. I got it wrong yesterday and answered exactly the same today - still wrong!

Yes Boatshed, the issue of the nation ranking was a bit controversial, it certainly didn't follow the same logic as the individual ranking. I agree.
In fact, I pointed it out in message no. 3669, four days ago (reread it if you want) about the 100% Czech.

With these individual ranking rules, disappearing from 100% to zero in just one day is impossible.
To get to 0 starting from 100 (if I understood the mechanism correctly) you have to answer badly (or not answer) for 30 consecutive times.
Evidently the nation ranking followed very strange rules, difficult to understand.

AI=Alleged Intelligence

What I don't understand?
On here it isn't showing one on 100%,🤔 where as previously when the other graph was presented there was some country showing 100%.
Where has that country disappeared to?? 🤔
And where is the person in it??🤔

Interesting to note how many of the high scorers contribute to the posts and interests on this web site.

This morning I have already prepared lunch, I shall have to resort to actual drawing the parts I have been trying to fit on my Wild Swan build. I am fitting a boomkin, looks easy but it is'nt!

Lovely day here but a bit chilly and have already had one day sailing at our lake.

Cheers for now
Roy

I hope I was clear. Now I'm going to reread the translation because I've definitely made a mistake.
If you don't understand something, you're right to ask.
I hope I explained myself well, but if you want, feel free to ask all the questions you want, there's no problem.

Hi SimpleSailor.
I'll try to answer you (even though I'm observing the trend carefully because some exceptions and inconsistencies still don't add up): There is no beginning and end of the month.
You have to consider your last incorrect answer (or not given). If from that date you have always given all the right answers then you can reach 100%. This is the maximum then each wrong question will lower your percentage. If, for example, after thirty days you have given 30 correct answers you will be (or should be) at 100%. If the next day you get the question wrong you will be at 29 correct answers out of 30.
Which means
30 : 29 = 100 : x
X= 29 x 100/30 = 96.67
97%
That wrong question will weigh on you for another thirty days.
For thirty days you will not be able to do better than 97%.
For thirty days you could make further mistakes and further decrease your score but you will not be able to reach 100%.
Logically, further errors (or omissions) will further postpone the thirty-day count.

Every day is a new 30 days. It rolls on.

Just a simple question and don't have ago at me me Doug 😉. When does the 30 days in the questions roll to the next 30 days? Or when does it start?

I love the new chart. Now I can spy on my fellow Canadians, and it doesn't seem to be a lot of participation from Canada. ☹️☹️

Jump,
Re: "Oh I get it. I have to answer more questions to improve my score! "

THAT'S what I'm talking about😉
Welcome to 'The League of the Enlightened Gentlemen'👍
Cheers, Doug😎

14th April 2025.
Oh dear oh very dear!🤔
AI stuck in a rut again?
Shucks! I gave everyone the answer to this yesterday🙄
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Yer pays yer money and yer takes your choice Michel😉
Ciao, Doug😎

A good pragmatic attitude and solution DG👍
Cheers, Doug😎

The problem with the AI search and response, she may not get the correct 'fit' for an answer, but you need to take the 'reasonable doubt' approach and choose the nearest of the 4 choices on offer. In this case there were 3 ships (a number of much dispute) that supposedly warned the Titanic of Ice on that night.. One of them and the one most popular ship to the TV documentaries was the one AI chose here as the 'correct answer'!!

It was the Mesaba after all!
👎
M-C.

Oh I get it. I have to answer more questions to improve my score!
😂😂😂

PS
"John George "Jack" Phillips (11 April 1887 – 15 April 1912) was a British sailor and the senior wireless operator aboard the Titanic during her ill-fated maiden voyage in April 1912.

Before the collision with the iceberg, Phillips and his assistant, Harold Bride, had acknowledged and passed along several ice warnings to the bridge. As the ship sank, Phillips did his utmost to contact other ships for assistance and coordinated a successful rescue effort with RMS Carpathia. He did not survive the sinking and his body, if recovered, was not identified.

On the evening of 14 April, in the wireless room on the boat deck, Phillips was sending messages to Cape Race, Newfoundland, working to clear a backlog of passengers' personal messages that had accumulated when the wireless had broken down the day before.[3] Bride was asleep in the adjoining cabin, intending to relieve Phillips at midnight, two hours early. Shortly after 21:30, Phillips received an ice warning from the steamship Mesaba reporting drifting ice, a large number of icebergs, and an ice field directly in Titanic's path in the area of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Phillips acknowledged Mesaba's warning and continued to transmit messages to Cape Race. The wireless operator on the Mesaba, waited for Phillips to report that he had given the report to the bridge, but Phillips continued working Cape Race.

At 22:55, Phillips was again interrupted by another ship, this time the SS Californian. Cyril Evans, the only wireless operator on board the Californian, was reporting that they were stopped and surrounded by ice. Californian's relative proximity, and the fact that both Evans and Phillips were using spark-gap wireless sets whose signals bled across the spectrum and were impossible to tune out, meant that Evans's signal was strong and loud in Phillips's ears, while the signals from Cape Race were faint to Phillips and inaudible to Evans. Phillips quickly sent back, "Keep out; shut up, I'm working Cape Race", and continued communicating with Cape Race, while Evans listened a while longer before going to bed for the night. "

Enough disastricles for one day😮🙈, I'm going back to the snooker now.
Ciao All, Doug😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Phillips_(wireless_operator)

Hi Stephen,
Cyril Evans was the radio operator on SS Californian!
The operators on Titanic were Harold Bride and Jack Phillips who was on duty the night of the sinking. Following info was culled from witness reports and the proceedings of both Inquiries in London and New York.

"On Sunday 14 April at 18:30 ship's time, Californian's only wireless operator, Cyril Furmstone Evans (born 1892 in Croydon, Surrey, United Kingdom), signalled to the Antillian that three large icebergs were five miles to the south.[23] Titanic's wireless operator Harold Bride also received the warning and delivered it to the ship's bridge a few minutes later.[24]

Californian encountered a large ice field at 22:20 ship's time,[4] and Captain Lord decided to stop the ship and wait until morning before proceeding further.[25] Before leaving the bridge, he thought he saw a ship's light away to the eastward but could not be sure it was not just a rising star.[26] Lord continued to the engineers' cabins and met with the chief, whom he told about his plans for stopping. As they were talking, they saw a ship's lights approaching. Lord asked Evans if he knew of any ships in the area, and Evans responded: "only the Titanic." Lord asked Evans to inform her that Californian was stopped and surrounded by ice.[27] Lord ordered Evans to warn all other ships in the area, which he did.[28]

Titanic's on-duty wireless operator, Jack Phillips, was busy clearing a backlog of passengers' messages with the wireless station at Cape Race, Newfoundland, 800 miles (1,300 km) away, at the time. Evans's message that SS Californian was stopped and surrounded by ice was heard very strongly on Titanic due to the relative proximity of the two ships and drowned out a separate message Phillips had been in the process of receiving from Cape Race, bringing Phillips told Evans to stop transmitting in the straight diction of wireless operators: "Keep out. Shut up; I am working Cape Race." (or, in morse code, "DDD").[29][30] Contrary to belief, Evans was not offended nor took the common code for "stop transmitting" to be an insult. Instead, he listened in for a while before he switched off his wireless equipment and went to bed.[31][32] A few minutes later, at 23:40, Titanic hit an iceberg.[33] Shortly after midnight, she transmitted her first distress call. "

Californian was only 16km away from Titanic when it hit the iceberg so her WT signal would have been so strong it drowned out signals from further away. Hence Phillips' reaction!
Apart from the reference to Mesaba's warning (see table below) there is no other reference to her or her position / distance relative to Titanic, or if she received Titanic's distress signal, which only Carpathia, ca 100km away, appears to have heard and responded to.

More at links below, which tally with the docus I watched last night.
So in the context of the question set today Californian is the correct answer.
AI just got a little ahead of itself with the date, used today 13th April, instead of waiting until tomorrow for this question. Maybe nothing else happened on 13th April in the past?😁
Cheers, Doug
"Ice Warnings Received by the Titanic on April 14, 1912
Ship Time of Warning
Caronia 9:12 am
Noordam 11:27 am
Amerika 1:49 pm
Baltic 1:54 pm
Mesaba 9:54 pm
Californian 11:07 pm "



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Californian

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Professionalism/The_Sinking_of_the_Titanic

However, only one of the four response ships was in those waters at the time.
The SS Californian is much more famous for the failed rescue incident (of which it was acquitted).

A little iffy today, I think the answer should really be the SS Caronia given the date.

SS Caronia: Sent a warning on 13 April, acknowledged but not significantly acted upon.
SS Californian: Sent a warning on 14 April, but was dismissed by the busy wireless operator (Cyril Evans).
SS Mesaba: Sent the most detailed and timely warning on the evening of 14 April, but it never reached the bridge.

So, everyone knows that it is the SS Mesaba.
However, the options I see are: HMS Dreadnought, RMS Lusitania, SS Californian and SS Great Eastern.
Do these four appear to you too?
How do you choose the right one?

Vott a co-in-cidence!😉
I was just watching a couple of docus this evening about Titanic.
The sinking, The discovery, The investigation of hull materials salvaged.
BTW: The radio operator's name was Evans. He forgot to put the code MSG, signifying 'For the Master', at the beginning of his transmission. So it was not passed on to the bridge☹️,
Cheers, Doug😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Titanic#/media/File:Titanic_sinking_gif.gif

Now. The new score presentation I understand. 😊👍

Well, well, well! I am reinstated!
Roy

It still gets its knickers in a twist, e.g. today I answered the question, my score went up and the number of games played out of 29 was correct.

I opened this QoD and am presented with, Answer the QoD before you can read the posts ( I have already done this) and they are faded out. I again answer QoD with right answer and am told you have answered the question already but still blanks off the previous posts and my score has been reduced, which earlier today was 77% but is now 73%.

I wonder what tomorrow brings? Also will anyone be able to read this post?
Roy

Well Doug. Thanks for the explanation (again) I will give it up just for you 😉. However this is the clearest explanation so far. With my simple logical brain I found it strange to hover over the the individual score to see I had answered (as of today) 21 questions and got 17 correct but my % score was 57%. I had completely forgotten that we actually get 30 questions set and get a not answered registered as a wrong answer.

A dumb question today (12.4.25) for a dumb Comms engineer who spent nearly 40 years working on Naval Comms systems😁

PS for Alessandro: Naval in the English sense meaning the Military Naval Force.
Not general commercial marine shipping or pleasure boating.
But some regulations apply to both, e.g. GMDSS and SOLAS.
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Hi Stephen,
Re "There will be a reason why you’re hovering around 50%"
Surely it's blindingly obvious (except to Simple apparently!🙄)
As I (only a dumb Comms engineer😉) understand the system-
Every day at at 00:00 Zulu time a new question is posted.
Until one answers it it is registered as a 'No answer' and hence one looses 1/30 points (=3.333r% rounded to 3%). If during the next 24 hours one answers correctly the 3% are regained. If wrong one remains at -3%. Not exactly rocket science!!
If on that day you answer correctly and-
* a wrong answer drops off one's 30 day tally then you go up a further 3%.
* a correct answer drops off your tally - nothing changes.
If on that day you answer incorrectly and-
* a wrong answer drops off your 30 day tally--> nothing changes
* a correct answer drops off your 30 day tally--> you drop 1 point = -3%.
The only part of your 'new equation' I'm not sure about is the algorithm for weighting when members have the same number of correct answers but have answered fewer questions!
Cheers, Doug😎

My dear Simple,
"Well blow me down Captain. That old 30 day thing again"👎👎👎
Sorry to have to say it, BUT. Give it a rest PLEASE!!
Why is it so difficult to understand the simple logic and arithmetic behind the score calculation?
It's been patiently explained to you many times that the Leader Board scores are calculated over 30 days. So no answer to any question = no points! Just like any school exam.
For each non answer (or wrong answer) in the last 30 day period you loose 1/30 points = 3.33r%. Rounded to 3% on the Leader Board.
If you give a correct answer, and a correct answer at the back end of the 30 days (31 days ago) drops out of the calculation nothing changes coz you still have the same ratio of correct answers to the 30 days.
Your %age score will ONLY go up when you give a right answer and a wrong answer or no answer (31 days ago) drops out of the calculation. --> +3%😉
Since your 'week off' was quite recent you will have to wait around three weeks until those 7 non-answers start to drop out of the calculation.
Now PLEASE PLEASE stop haranguing us with your unfounded complaints.
It's becoming very tedious.😠
I'm beginning to wonder if you are just trying to wind us up, pulling our collective chains.
It's getting very irritating.😠
Doug.

Well blow me down Captain. That old 30 day thing again. 😀

16 correct in the past 30 days = 53% 👍

Hi Stepehen. It is a bit strange. I noticed when I hover over the "SimpleSailor 53%" it says 21 played 16 correct, which is 76%

I shall have another go at the score board at some point. There will be a reason why you’re hovering around 50%… I think a lot of it is about publishing the numbers to the granular level, so you can all see how it’s calculated up at the top level. A bit like a ‘show detail’ option.

Stephen

Well, here I go again (A song I think). Since my last rant about the scoring I have been oscillating between 50% and 53%. I have had every question correct since re-joining at 50%, so I would have assumed that the score would increase each day. But NO. It is stuck in some ground hog day thing. Thanks for todays question I have found out a lot about the Indian Ocean. I didn't realise it was geologically interesting.

I am on a winning streak. Moving up. Do not know how long I will be having the correct answers. I look forward to these questions every day. Lots of fun😊👍

You're right Roy, but the scoring mechanism could be fixed just right.

Alessandro what has logic got to do with A.I. and Q.o.D?

I am getting very leary about reading items on the 'net. After a while you get to realise the style and over emphasis on description that A.I. uses. I wonder how many different versions there are of this s/w?

What with the advertising on You Tube which I now use far less than I did, due to random advertising. A couple of days ago I watched, on my TV, a cable channel programme on a WW2 naval incident. When it came to the credits I switched off to watch the news. The next day on my laptop I was asked if I wanted to continue watching it!

Paying to stop the ads on you tube is a bit like the 1950s /60s when Pubs and the like were often forced to pay protection money from crooks, or else!

I have Virgin cable IT which is not bad as I just have one number to ring if there is a problem, but they took away my standby email address! It was an Ntlworld domain, and as I do not use a mobile phone I have not managed to find another email address as they all want a mobile phone number as a reference.

It is all becomming a right b****r!

Roy

Alessandro
In the past there was some body who could change water into wine. I think this is the same

With the questions it seems like there is a clear improvement, but how do you explain that the Czech Republic is first in the ranking (100%) despite there being no Czech member in the top 20.
How do you think this is possible?

Where were the Titanic survivors buried?

Titanic has just brought a moment of joy for me this morning! I even got the answer right.

Should have realised it was 10th. April as we seem to be working through anniversaries. Perhaps the launch of Apollo 13 in 1970 for tomorrow?
Roy

Hi fireboat,
Finally a Titanic answer. There are hundreds more questions that Mr AI can come up with for Titanic for us.
I miss Titanic. 😁😁🤣🤣
Mind you Mary Rose gets missed.
My dad (R.I.P Pop) was a lover of that, I used to rib him of that, he was in the Navy and met my mum in the navy she was a Wren.
I used to say he was on the Mary Rose building crew.

Got a titanic question. I’ve been missing those…

Date and answer is right again though! I feel there may be more titanic related questions in the coming days 🤔

Stephen

Ref today's question; apart from having seen a docu on History Channel about Weserübung, I also had the pleasure of steaming passed the fortress last September, on the return leg of a Norwegian cruise on Mein Schiff 3.

Cheers, Doug😎
BTW: Operation Weserübung (Invasion of Norway) was the inspiration for me (at age 15) to build a 1/72 scale model of the destroyer HMS Hotspur. Scaled up from a 1/600 Airfix model after reading the Airfix resume of her action in the Battle of Narvik.
Seen in the attached pics on her maiden voyage at Radnor Park Lake, Folkestone, Kent,UK.
And after a major refit ca 1986, including RC upgrade, together with my 1/72 Type 1A U-Boot.
Scale 1/72 was chosen as I had dozens of 1/72 scale 8th Army and Afrika Korps soldiers, left over from my 'Backyard Battles', to use as crew members.😉