Yes something has changed with the scoring again. Mine went from 100% to 89% even after being correct for a couple of weeks it still remains at 89%.😂 or should it be 😭

Got last five questions correct score still 87%.
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Yes I got this one right, I think it has been on before and I remember it from that. I got it wrong last time as I dent fro diesel fuel.
I am on a roll of about 5 or is it 6 days now I'm not sure.
Lost count. Anyway still holding at 90%.

Not sure if the correct answer is right or wrong. I did choose answer A only because I know that "Bunker Fuel" is a generic term and traditionally has been Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO) which is a disgusting thick oil and it has always surprised me that a marine diesel engine could even combust such junk. I have had some interesting discussions with my brother in law who was a marine engineer in the merchant navy for over 30 years and he assures me that HFO is horrible stuff. I agree with RNinMunich there is a move to more cleaner oils, certainly since the IMO 2020 regulation came into force.
https://www.imo.org/en/MediaCentre/PressBriefings/pages/34-IMO-2020-sulphur-limit-.aspx

Sounds like i was not as wrong as th AI makes me think 🤣😆
Philuk👍

Today's answer (01.02.25) is WRONG!😠
Container ships typically are fitted with diesel engines, the size of a 4 story house block.
With cylinders you can climb inside. (I've seen 'em at the Daewoo shipyard in S. Korea.😮)
Bunker fuel AKA Heavy Fuel Oil - HFO, which CAN with additives be used in marine diesel engines, has been going out of use for years, for predominantly environmental reasons.
HFO is the 'refuse' resulting from cat cracking of petroleum, and is thus cheaper than refined diesel fuel, but causes more pollution coz it contains all sorts of nasties😝☹️😠.
Hence the migration to cleaner distillates such as Diesel fuel.
Doug😎

There are many uses for yellow buoys, marking swimming areas, areas where there is no safe channel, marking edges of firing ranges to name a few. When defaced with black bands they mark the outer edges of a channel..

All of the options are wrong🤔

Ditto repeato🙄

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TD; Or AI= Aggravated Ignorance🙄

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No way Michel!😠
I'm Edward Lear's father😁😂

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Hei Doug!
I don't recognise you . .
Are you the great-great-great-grandson of Shakespeare???
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Lg Michel-C.

AI=alternate intelligence

Not that I am counting, you know....😊😊😊😊😊

OK! I have gotten 4 correct answers in a row and my "average" has not moved. I do believe that somethin is amiss.....😆😆😆

Thanks for the Quangle quote Nick. Love it👍

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Thanks for the prompt Nick👍 I'd completely forgotten the sequel!🤔
"And now the conclusion"😁

' Long years ago
The Dong was happy and gay,
Till he fell in love with a Jumbly Girl
Who came to those shores one day,
For the Jumblies came in a sieve, they did,--
Landing at eve near the Zemmery Fidd
Where the Oblong Oysters grow,
And the rocks are smooth and gray.
And all the woods and the valleys rang
With the Chorus they daily and nightly sang,--
'Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue
And they went to sea in a sieve.'

Happily, happily passed those days!
While the cheerful Jumblies staid;
They danced in circlets all night long,
To the plaintive pipe of the lively Dong,
In moonlight, shine, or shade.
For day and night he was always there
By the side of the Jumbly Girl so fair,
With her sky-blue hands, and her sea-green hair.
Till the morning came of that hateful day
When the Jumblies sailed in their sieve away,
And the Dong was left on the cruel shore
Gazing--gazing for evermore,--
Ever keeping his weary eyes on
That pea-green sail on the far horizon,--
Singing the Jumbly Chorus still
As he sate all day on the grassy hill,--
'Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue
And they went to sea in a sieve.'

But when the sun was low in the West,
The Dong arose and said;--
--'What little sense I once possessed
'Has quite gone out of my head!'--
And since that day he wanders still
By lake or forest, marsh and hill,
Singing--'O somewhere, in valley or plain
'Might I find my Jumbly Girl again!
'For ever I'll seek by lake and shore
'Till I find my Jumbly Girl once more!'

Playing a pipe with silvery squeaks,
Since then his Jumbly Girl he seeks,
And because by night he could not see,
He gathered the bark of the Twangum Tree
On the flowery plain that grows.
And he wove him a wondrous Nose,--
A Nose as strange as a Nose could be!
Of vast proportions and painted red,
And tied with cords to the back of his head.
--In a hollow rounded space it ended
With a luminous Lamp within suspended,
All fenced about
With a bandage stout
To prevent the wind from blowing it out;--
And with holes all round to send the light,
In gleaming rays on the dismal night.

And now each night, and all night long,
Over those plains still roams the Dong;
And above the wall of the Chimp and Snipe
You may hear the sqeak of his plaintive pipe
While ever he seeks, but seeks in vain
To meet with his Jumbly Girl again;
Lonely and wild--all night he goes,--
The Dong with a luminous Nose!
And all who watch at the midnight hour,
From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
Cry, as they trace the Meteor bright,
Moving along through the dreary night,--
'This is the hour when forth he goes,
'The Dong with a luminous Nose!
'Yonder--over the plain he goes,
'He goes!
'He goes;
'The Dong with a luminous Nose!'

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BTW I believe that the Dong is the unit of currency in Vietnam.
Means something totally different in Australia if I'm not mistaken🙈🙉🙊

https://www.nonsenselit.org/Lear/ll/dln.html

On the top of the Crumpetty Tree
The Quangle Wangle sat,
But his face you could not see,
On account of his Beaver Hat.

For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide,
With ribbons and bibbons on every side
And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace,
So that nobody ever could see the face
Of the Quangle Wangle Quee.

Hi TD,
Not quite.
I have to admit that after all these years (decades😐) I had to look up some of the middle verses. But the main reference and meaning was crystal clear to me.😉
Cheers, Doug😎

"The Chankly Bore is a region of Fillory containing a range of low, perfectly smooth hills with a single oak tree at the top, located east of the Nameless Mountains. The hills were equally the same height and arranged in perfectly straight rows."

I'll bet the last four lines of the sequel raise a few smiles (or blushes) in Oz land Down Under!😮

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PS are there 'Quangles in Your Wangles'?

The sequel...

When awful darkness and silence reign
Over the great Gromboolian plain,
Through the long, long wintry nights; —
When the angry breakers roar
As they beat on the rocky shore; —
When Storm-clouds brood on the towering heights
Of the Hills of the Chankly Bore: —

Then, through the vast and gloomy dark,
There moves what seems a fiery spark,
A lonely spark with silvery rays
Piercing the coal-black night, —
A Meteor strange and bright: —
Hither and thither the vision strays,
A single lurid light.

Slowly it wander, — pauses, — creeps, —
Anon it sparkles, — flashes and leaps;
And ever as onward it gleaming goes
A light on the Bong-tree stems it throws.
And those who watch at that midnight hour
From Hall or Terrace, or lofty Tower,
Cry, as the wild light passes along, —
"The Dong! — the Dong!
"The wandering Dong through the forest goes!
"The Dong! the Dong!
"The Dong with a luminous Nose!"

Doug,
I am impressed! All from memory, no doubt🤣
I can only remember : Itsy bitsy spider...." that's all folks...☹️☹️☹️

" It was actually "They" who went to sea in a sieve. They were going to visit the lands where the Jumblies live... "
I don't think so Nick.
My understanding/interpretation is that 'they' WERE the Jumblies' -
whose ' ... heads were green and their hands were blue and they went to sea in a sieve.' who were exploring other lands in their sieve.

Re "I wouldn't class a sieve as a container, too many 'oles... "
That's why this and similar poems / verses are known as 'Nonsense Poems'.
Another superb example being 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat'.
But they often have a deeper meaning than just 'fun to read'.

Oh! Did I not mention I scored a '1' in English Literature?
(Many many moons ago -Tempus fugit🤔)
But I suspect that the AI may not have😉
Cheers😎
PS Sieves strain out water. Who says it only works one way?😁

" II
They sailed away in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they sailed so fast,
With only a beautiful pea-green veil
Tied with a riband by way of a sail,
To a small tobacco-pipe mast;
And every one said, who saw them go,
‘O won’t they be soon upset, you know!
For the sky is dark, and the voyage is long,
And happen what may, it’s extremely wrong
In a Sieve to sail so fast!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.

III
The water it soon came in, it did,
The water it soon came in;
So to keep them dry, they wrapped their feet
In a pinky paper all folded neat,
And they fastened it down with a pin.
And they passed the night in a crockery-jar,
And each of them said, ‘How wise we are!
Though the sky be dark, and the voyage be long,
Yet we never can think we were rash or wrong,
While round in our Sieve we spin!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
IV
And all night long they sailed away;
And when the sun went down,
They whistled and warbled a moony song
To the echoing sound of a coppery gong,
In the shade of the mountains brown.
‘O Timballo! How happy we are,
When we live in a sieve and a crockery-jar,
And all night long in the moonlight pale,
We sail away with a pea-green sail,
In the shade of the mountains brown!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
V
They sailed to the Western Sea, they did,
To a land all covered with trees,
And they bought an Owl, and a useful Cart,
And a pound of Rice, and a Cranberry Tart,
And a hive of silvery Bees.
And they bought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws,
And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws,
And forty bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree,
And no end of Stilton Cheese.
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve.
VI
And in twenty years they all came back,
In twenty years or more,
And every one said, ‘How tall they’ve grown!’
For they’ve been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone,
And the hills of the Chankly Bore;
And they drank their health, and gave them a feast
Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast;
And everyone said, ‘If we only live,
We too will go to sea in a Sieve,—
To the hills of the Chankly Bore!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live;
Their heads are green, and their hands are blue,
And they went to sea in a Sieve."

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There's another thing. It was actually "They" who went to sea in a sieve. They were going to visit the lands where the Jumblies live...

" They went to sea in a Sieve, they did,
In a Sieve they went to sea:
In spite of all their friends could say,
On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day,
In a Sieve they went to sea!
And when the Sieve turned round and round,
And every one cried, ‘You’ll all be drowned!’
They called aloud, ‘Our Sieve ain’t big,
But we don’t care a button! we don’t care a fig!
In a Sieve we’ll go to sea!’
Far and few, far and few,
Are the lands where the Jumblies live; ..."

Another repeat🙄
Next up - 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat'?

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Their heads were green and their hands were blue and they went to sea in a sieve. I wouldn't class a sieve as a container, too many 'oles...

Wow, I got todays right. If the Titanic had been there I would have opted for that and dropped again.
I am slowly holding now on at 90%. how long for I don't know.
My general knowledge doesn't seem to be that great.
Bordering on 75 I should have listened to a bit more at school instead of wanting to leave at 14yrs & 11mths to start working in a butcher's and doing a 7 year apprenticeship. Then leaving that and going on to learning a totally different job, dry cleaning and Hoffman Pressing and doing that for 26 yrs then 17 years bus driving.
I am now loving just coming up to my 10 years retirement an totally enjoying it stuff what I didn't learn at school, I am glad I never learnt much french, I have never had a passport and never been out of the British Isles.

I thought it was the Bismark’s turn🤔

Hi all I am totally 'whelmed! I think it was the 1912 date that gave it away.

Roy

I looked up dozens of flags, and none of them matched the description. However, when you know someone else is out there, it is always prudent to be cautious. Just my 2 pence!

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.