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!
😉

In Roy’s wise words, finally 100% so the only way is down.
😂

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.
😉😋

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

For the Japanese warship obsessed, this is the place to go….http://combinedfleet.com/

If anyone is interested in Pacific naval battles this is a sight full of info.
https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/museums/nmusn/explore/photography/wwii/wwii-pacific/chronological-list-naval-battles-land-campaigns/pacific-surface-naval-battles.html

Now that was actually a good question! Easy to ignore this and go for Midway. USS Lexington was eventually sunk and USS Yorktown badly damaged. The Japanese won this first round.
Roy

Life jacket or buoyancy aid in my day...

I did not know that pictures with an email could also float!!!! I think I have onset dementia maybe it was pdf? I probably mean dyslexia but I can't spell that.
Roy

Its just another Christmas Doug! They tend to repeat themselves.

I expect we shall be given options on which day will be New Years Day as well.
Cheers all
Roy

Hey Rockbag, I had a Felucca once, it was really painful...🤔

Actually another 'None of the above' question as submarines are always referred to as Boats and not ships.
Chronologically Nautilus was the first nuclear powered sea going 'vessel', commissioned 1954. But the first 'ship' with reactor power was the Icebreaker Lenin, 1959. The first nuclear powered carrier, USS Enterprise "BIG E", followed in 1961.
A handful of merchant vessels were tried with nuclear power but were not economically viable and later converted to diesel or scrapped.
Other than naval vessels only a series of Russian icebreakers for use on their northern Arctic coastline, starting with the Lenin in 1959, were successful.

BTW: we've had all this before😉
Cheers, Doug😎

Feluccas are found sailing on the River Nile.

Hi Doug nice to hear from you. Titanic what can I say? I think this time I shall sing a Calypso.
I have just had a bad time. I spent hours on the Australian government website trying to get a visiting visa! I have one every year to see family but a challenge every time.
Eventually our son got on the phone from Oz and did it for me and it went straight through! I just want click, click print! they have all the info anyway as they do not even require a date.

Now it is 6 in the morning and I am wide awake, so cup of tea and back to bed very soon.
Roy

Roy will be grinning again😁
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Ping 😂

So why did the question not include yachts with submarines?

I think my son would be thrilled to have an underwater detection system on his yacht. As he has a tricky passage through a bouyed channel subject to frequent movements of sand bars to get to the sea. Sometimes there is barely a foot (300mm) of water under the keel.

Roy

simple sailor
this always happens to young blokes who are impatient and do not take the time to read carefully.😊😊

OMG. I need to change my reading glasses. I read the question as WWII. Only when I got it wrong and put two pairs of glasses did I see it was WWI? 😂😂😂😂 Old age is a wonderful thing.

And another Roy.😃

Hmmmm! another question where the answer is in the question!
Roy

Hi even i got this right answer is in the question.
Philuk👍

I'm sure when I sail a boat the Spinaker flies in front of all other head sails.