This is so COOL! Thanks for posting it Ross!

England expects that every man will do his duty

Hi all,
We went through this at school. Must have been a good admiral.
You Brits should be proud . . .
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Have a nice day, Michel-C.

He should have left his medals in a drawer in his quarters. They were a poor camouflage, as it were.

I would have thought Battle of Midway was a GREAT answer☹️

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Subduction is part of a series, I will illustrate some others.

Abduction used to be a game the Mafia played in Sicily.
Byproduction sorry unwanted.
Conduction associated with buses.
Deduction is often associated with H. Poirot.
Feeduction OK if you can afford private schools.
Induction better out than in.
Reduction, that small feeling of being ignored.
Seduction...well perhaps look that one up.
Superconduction don't go there, very cold.

Regards
Roy

Sorry meant to say. A subduction zone is the opposite of 'Divergent Boundaries'.
Roy

We all know what a subduction zone is ! When I was at school they had not invented plate tectonics. We had to believe in 'Coincidence', consequently some of us reverted to the Flat earth theory!
And it is only because I frequently fly to Oz and there are no 180 degree turns that I have abandoned it. Hmm. maybe the bend might be when we stop in Singapore!

Roy

O.K., what's a subduction zone, tell us

Easy peasy, covered in the earth science module of an OU science foundation course I took yonks ago, earthquakes, plate techtonics volcanos etc... Go on, ask me what a subduction zone is, aww go on, it's my big chance to appear clever!!

Hey ho,another day at school in the classroom learning something new😊

I am on a bad run luck seems to have left me, seem to be making all the wrong judgements at the mo.
Phil🤔

Same here Ed.🤣

Got lucky with process of elimination, the only one I did not recognise was the right answer 😆

Lucky guess

Stumbling a bit of late. Dammit!

Total guess on date! I have been swimming / snorkelling on the reef it is fantastic. Went out from Port Douglas and it takes 90 minutes in a fast catamaran to get out there.

Roy

ColinH, so if it wasn't really the correct answer then what was the correct one. I was taught that Captain James Cook had ran aground on it and that's how he discovered it. I have said before not all history books are correct but I have not heard of any other things regarding this to say this was incorrect??

Not really the correct answer, but it was documented in that year as Cook ran aground.
So he discovered it.
Cheers Colin.

Boatshed, you definitely knew the correct answer…you chose….wisely😁

Cashrc, I think you will find a Great White is only about a third of the size of the Whale Shark, that's if my memory servers me correctly and that is why I answered the Whale Shark.

Roy, I've a mate that lives in the Munich area, not sure where, but once a year he brings me Bratwurst, Stadtwurst and Liberkasse (liver cheese, but there is no cheese in it). I usuall start dribbling about 3 weeks before he arrives!

I was going to pick whale shark, but I went with great white……I chose…….poorly🤣

Hi Doug re sausages. My son lived in Munich for about 10 years and my first trip to see him was in 1992. He liked brochwurst and saurkraut (?).

We went to Regina Platz where there was an open air restaurant and ordered same. I did not like the saurkraut but liked the brochwurst. When I had finished I said that they tasted like Lincolnshire pork sausages!

No said son! A few minutes later a small van arrived with English number plates and along the sides was the logo. "Best Lincolnshire Pork Sausages".

I was rocked with laughter and even son joined in. I think the restaurant was fined later for serving them!

Roy

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Maybe but and I agree it was a dotty quextion.

By the way in one of the James Bond films ELLIPSIS or ELYPSIS is used as a password.

Ellipsis means that row of dots that sometimes ends a paragraph where your imagination comes into play............

Roy.........

Same old s……..tuff🤣

Save Our Sausages😋😁

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Looks like you got debugged Roy👍

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I always think of actor Ted Knight of "Mary Tyler Moore" fame chewing the scenery as a crazed religious fanatic in the "The Night of the Kraken" episode of the Wild Wild West."
Actually, the photo is a pretty fair representation of me knocking over a glass of red wine on my work bench yesterday. No worries, no kits, decals, or plans were injured in the making of that bit of clumsiness. 😂

Back in the day I was a big fan of John Wyndam. Our son although an avid reader now would never read books when in his teens. Then the O levels came along and "The Chrysalids" was the set book.

By chance on the radio we had Saturday night theatre and the week before I had recorded the dramatised version of the Crysalids. ( I used to play them in my car when on work journeys), so he played the tape through a couple of times, and that is how he got the English Literature exam.

He does not really know what he owes me!!!!! Typical progeny.

I tell him that I taught him all he knows! But not all that I know!

Roy

I did not see my choice, BFM. Oh well.🤕

Had some help from John Wyndham with today's question!
Great book he wrote back in '53.
Read it when I was about 16.
Powerful story, stuck in my mind, esp. the title, 'The ******** Wakes'.
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I agree with Austin G, reading up on this question after having to guess the answer was an education, thank goodness I live in a place where so far, history books are not getting re-written. And special thanks to members who share real anecdotes!
For those with the time available from modelling, this link was written by the Canadian Encyclopaedia staff, and makes fascinating reading.
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/henry-larsen-and-the-ist-rochi-feature

That is correct, also depend on which history books we read.

Try this on, my 9 year old grandson told me about this, he found it in a navigation history section of the Internet.
The idea of a northwest sea route from Europe to East Asia dates back at least to the second century A.D. and the world maps of Greco-Roman geographer Ptolemy.
Cheers Colin.

EWWWW It is thought that they left a settlement in Newfoundland

Hi Commodore-H,
Re "It's really, the Vikings".
Not sure that they did much theorizing.
Weren't they more into the 'Smash n Grab' business?
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None of these are correct. If you live close to the BC coast you know the answer

Billing

PM me for my bank details.
Roy

come to model-boats.com for the boats


stay for the history lessons!!!

All right contestants!

for $100

the answer is. . .!


HENRY LARSEN AND THE ST ROCH!!!!!

YOU HAVE 30 SECONDS TO WRITE DOWN THE QUESTION!!

starting NOW!!

When one of my nephews aka Swot, did a Chemistry exam at the local grammar school he got 120% on this occasion.
It was because he finished early and decided to re-write the questions and critised the author of the exam for not asking more productive ones!

Nice lad as well, I say lad as he was recently a grandad.
Roy

Perhaps we should be given the "facts" and have to propose the question from a choice of 4 including "non of the above".
Roy

It's really, the Vikings

Thanks Ross👍
I understand now.💡
It's not the answers which are wrong ...
IT'S THE QUESTIONS!!
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Now,

If we can change:

'theorized the existence'

to

'sailed both directions'

We could answer

'Henry Larsen'👍

Hi Austin,
I think you'll find that the vessel on the Thames is a Barge, the Gloriana.
Built for Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee.
HMB Endeavour was a Barque (or Bark), a small sailing ship, and was registered as such on the Navy List. Slightly different😎
A functional sailing replica has been built in Australia and can be seen at the Australian National Maritime Museum.
Cheers, Doug 😎

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloriana_(barge)

https://www.sea.museum/learn/school-excursions/teacher-resources/hmb-endeavour/life-aboard-ship/the-ship--his-majestys-bark-endeavour

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloriana_(barge)

Got this by a process of elimination 🤔 😆

If you live in BC you know none of the answers are correct. There is a famous Strait named after the guy that first learned of this passage.