Thanks for the surprise! It is so nice to get a present 🎁 from the other side of the world! Having a positive communication with others from all over the world helps me to have faith that one-day things will be better for all of humanity. And, we need to make sure the next generation carries on with the wonderful world of hobby building! Much love to all of you out there that share the interest in creating fun! 😊

Mail came today .Thank you Stephen
Rick

Hopefully it’ll get there in the end Doug! I can assure you it was sent out at the same time as the other internationals 😊

Stephen

Reckon my prize must be coming via Boris Johnson & Co Pigeon Post🤔
😎

Thanks Stephen, My prize arrived today delivered by (Wells Fargo,) thank you and a very pleasant surprise.

Thanks Stephen. My prize arrived today in Hungary. We will use it often.😃

Hi Stephen. Many thanks for the prize. Arrived today. 👍
Seaspray

My prize arrived on Friday, thank you for the quiz, it was great fun.

from my old school days

must do better next time x 100

Prize arrived safely today, thank you Stephen for the fun and brain exercises. Look forward to the next quiz.
Cheers Colin.

My prize arrived this morning. Thank you very much Stephen. Roll on next time.

Nerys

I missed a couple that way, too. I would look up the answer, and when I went back to send it in, there was already another question.

Good exercise, though. Some questions took me back to my time on the Pacific and points further west.

It was a good quiz I missed one due to the time zone. Difference and it disappeared before I realised it

Hi Stephen.
Many thanks.
My prize arrived today,so thank you once again for all your efforts and to my gift donor.
Have a good one.
Regards Bill.🍷🍷🍷

the quiz was alot of fun. Where can I find the questions and correct answers?

If your in a sub no beans👎

That is beautiful. I just feel that too many places are banning IC engines that's why I have fitted a brushless motor in my outboard. This one could have taken an IC as well.

Great Steven but only one question plexted me a little more difficulty please?😀

Yes great quiz Steven more often please .Makes the cobwebs disappear from the dusty mind.Thank you.👍😊0

We must be in for an Extra Spe cial Year Bristol City won at Home!👍

Me too

I enjoyed the quiz, I didn't start on day one, but couldn't wait for the next question, I think I started on day four.
Thanks. I hope you all enjoyed the holidays and have a great 2022
Jimba😎

I missed a lot of questions but enjoyed it, A great idea to do it each year

Hi Rick, and another idea would be to drill the shelf bit which sticks out directly over the prop and fit a bit of copper tube, then you get the force of the prop wash for your water cooling. then two holes in the hull above the waterline to get the cooling water in through the escapement and then out and over the side. Choice three would be, stick something like this on the back end, it is a 15cc two-stroke for a twin tunnel hulled racer, from way back when before they invented health and safety. Best wishes for 2022, regards, Gary.

Thanks Gary Best wishes and well done giving help to the many questions of steam and other areas of this hobby
l will look at that sounds a simple solution.
Rick

Congratulations to all the winners and participants and a special thank you to Stephen, great entertainment 😊

Hi Rick, congratulations on your new rank as an admirable ADMIRAL. Well deserved my friend and a great way to start the New Year. Take care, stay safe, best wishes Gary.
(ps. If you haven't sorted that boat out yet, simply drill the keel fit a piece of copper pipe with a bit of a kink come slightly bent, elongate the hole to open it up a bit, fit silicon tubing to the escapement, plus another tube through the side of the hull to get rid of the cooling water.)

The eyes have it. All counted and ready to go SIR
Rick

All packaged up, ready to send out once the post offices open again! 😊

Under high security guard 🐈‍⬛

Stephen

Thank you so very much for the quiz that expanded my mind (instead of my waist).🤣 I missed one 😔 (question #2) as I did not realize the time difference; therefore, the question changed before I got to answer the 2nd one. I don't remember learning any of the nautical terms while in the Navy (except in Bootcamp), maybe because in my day women were not allowed on ships. Helping build them tho, I have learned a lot! Happy New Year to all in the world. Maybe this year we can learn peace and break bread instead of carrying guns and hate that turns into war! Namaste------ps-I do not look like that now! I am much older! 😁 😜

Donation done Bill😊
Come on chaps and chapesses, chase the moths out 😁and help us help Stephen to keep this great site over water👍
😎

Ladies and Gents.
Happy New Year to you all.
I concur with all the other comments re the quiz.
A first class idea and something that has got a lot of people scratching their heads.
Well done to Stephen for entertaining the idea and organizing the same.
Must be time now to renew the club contributions to help Stephen with site running costs.
I will do mine later!!😉
Happy New Year one and all.
Regards
Bill.👍

So that's that, the competition comes to an end. Thank you Stephen for all the effort you put into organising it, I'm sure it was appreciated and enjoyed by a lot of people and I for one am eagerly awaiting a successor sometime in the not too distant future.
Happy New Year to all and may it be somewhat better for us all than the last two.

Best wishes,
Nerys

There's not really a finishing position, as it's names out of the hat.

The list of the 20 winners below was just put alphabetically. Some joined half way through, but you only need one correct answer to have a chance of winning. The more correct answers, the higher the chances were. On average people answered 12 of the 31 questions and were correct 93.86% of the time.

Some rough odds based on the 5965 correct entries & 20 winners;
If you got 1 question right: 1/596520100 = 0.34% chance
If you got 31 questions right: 31/596520100 = 10.39% chance

Stephen

Is there not a full list or a way of finding out finishing position?🤔

Well done Stephen, a brilliant idea that really caught on hopefully there will be another. I am very surprised that I managed 5th place in the ratings as I didn't bother with the early questions. May I take this opportunity to wish everyone on this site? A Happy New Year for 2022, stay safe, regards, and best wishes, Gary.

Hi Nerys!
Cael blwyddyn dda i chi hefyd!
Cyfarchion
Michel-Claude 😉😉😉

Blwyddyn newydd dda iti Nerys.

It was fun…I did have to google a few, but for the most part I was able to get the correct answer with no help. However, you missed out on what I consider an important question. “When making chili for the ships crew, do you make the chili with beans or without?”
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Seriously, I enjoyed it. Happy New Year to all!!

Thanks for doing the quiz Stephen, nice bit of end of year fun. Thanks also for all your efforts which keep this site running so well. I'd like to wish you and everyone a very happy new year, and that it will be better than the last two anni horribilies.

JB

Thank you Stephen. A great start to 2022 already.
Peter.👍😀

Okay, so here we go, the final results and winners! There are 20 winners. Prizes will be spread out across the winners, you'll not know what you've won until it turns up! 😁

1. cormorant
2. Colin H
3. DamonH
4. GARTH
5. GaryLC
6. georgeo5664
7. Glyn
8. jbkiwi
9. Jimba
10. modelship
11. MouldBuilder
12. muddy
13. navyveteran
14. Nerys
15. Newby7
16. Rex3644
17. RNinMunich
18. Rookysailor
19. Scratchbuilder
20. Seaspray

Some of you I do have an address for already, but for the most I don't, so I'll be in touch via email.

Thanks to all who participated. I'm sorry if you were not a winner this time, but we'll look to do this again in the future, so fingers crossed for next time!

Stephen

The quiz, in my opinion, was perfect for the general membership. If the questions were made too much more difficult, the vast majority would drop out leaving just an elite few to battle it out amongst themselves. Sounds a bit like modern economics really. I, for one, would not take part as the only solution for me would be Google and that would just not be cricket.
Obviously I have no problems with this idea but do not expect a large uptake. I thought this quiz was perfect and look forward to another.
Happy New Year to all.👍😀

"Certainly open to doing this again, daily / weekly / monthly / bi-monthly. Just need a database of questions - or a volunteer for such 😁"
Hi Stephen,
When the euphoria over the success of this great quiz has subsided I believe that any of the above options would inevitably require considerable continuous effort on your part; either trawling for questions your part and/or evaluating and including (coding) inputs from members. Apart from the input work involved such frequent quizzes would most likely mean that it rapidly becomes routine (Yawn😐).
My recommendation would be to keep it annual, year's end, or maximum biannual to not only maintain interest and anticipation but also to provide more time to research and prepare suitable questions. If I can help in that respect let me know, I'll do me best.
Just my thunks😉 maybe I'm not as p***** as I thought I was was, after sharing a bottle of Cremant de Loire to celebrate New Year 😁 Or?🙄
Whatever; many thanks for keeping us going through these crazy years 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Vielen Dank, Muchas gracias, Merci beaucoup, Mille grazie, Muito obrigado, mange takk, mnoho být zavázán, mnoho být zavázán, 非常感謝, شكرًا لك,
and for good measure ghItlh (Klingon🤣)
Cheers, Doug

Hi Michel-Clt,
"Hey Dougt !!
translate this into english! Thank you!"
That was a reply in Welsh to Nerys (our Welsh Grand Dame of the Forum and Fleet Admiral CIC of our UK Command South Western Fleet, incorporating the Welsh Navy). She had wished us Happy New Year in Welsh.
Für dich; Frohes neues, Alles gute fürs neue Jahr. Immer ein handbreite Wasser unterm Kiel👍
Doug 😎

"perhaps we could submit trickier questions that you can't google!"
There ain't no question that you can't Google Pete.
Whether you get an intelligent or relevant answer is open to debate!🙄

As for submitting questions; wouldn't / shouldn't the 'submitter' automatically disqualify himself from the competition?
Stephen used a 'Trawler Bot' to scour the world wide widget for nautical related questions for our quiz. (And once upon a time I thought I was pretty good at programming and coding! Ho hum Tempus fugit 🤔 Anyone else remember 5 bit punched paper spools?😐)
Unfortunately Bots will give you all answers within the range of the query parameters, without checking if they are still currently relevant. As shown by the minor hiccup with Gypsy Moth 😮 which many of us picked up on. Next step an AI filter!?
Best wishes, or as my German friends would say 'Mach's gut' (Make it good👍)
Cheers, Doug 😎
PS: If anyone comes up with an applicable 'Google Answer Blocker' algorithm please let Stephen know pronto. Royalties can be discussed later 😁

Hey Dougt !!
translate this into english! Thank you!
As soon as the new year has begun, the new changes come, let's stay with the old!
😁😁😁😁😁
I almost forgot!! All of you here on this HP all the best in the new year with many new ship models. .
Greets Michel-Cl.

31th Dec
A type of boat known as a gondola is particularly associated with which city?
A. Barcelona (0%)
B. Istanbul (0%)
C. Venice (99%) - Correct Answer (235 entries)
D. Paris (1%)

I'll announce winners later in the day, but for now some top line stats:
Total Entries: 6,354
Correct Entries: 5,965
Total Members: 522
Countries: 28

Certainly open to doing this again, daily / weekly / monthly / bi-monthly. Just need a database of questions - or a volunteer for such 😁

Obviously it would be without prizes, but a leader board (that resets) would be possible and probably quite good fun.

Happy New Year to all!

Stephen

Ac i chi ac Alice Nerys, gyda'r dymuniadau gorau am hapusrwydd a gwell iechyd.
😎

Excellent quiz Stephen, would have liked the questions a little more difficult, as most of us oldies knew most of the answers, would love to see it done again next Christmas, perhaps we could submit trickier questions that you can't google! not that anyone would do that🙄

Happy New Year to All

Cheers, Pete😀