For some reason I don't understand, the site will not give me the Curious badge. The criteria for it states, "Ask a well received question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive question record". I have asked 7 questions so far on Arqade, all of them having a positive number of upvotes and all of them on separate days. The badge tracker even displays it as if I have the criteria for it.
Can someone elighten me on why I haven't received it yet and what I need to do to receive it?
Do you have a positive question record? Deleted questions still count against your positive record (even more so), so just deleting negative-scoring questions won't clear your record. If you click on the badge, you'll get a small popup like the following, which shows every requirement that needs to be met in order to earn the badge:
If you have a positive question record... it takes a while for the system to award new badges, you'll get yours soon enough.
To add to @Wrigglenite's answer, a positive question score is calculated the following way
(total questions - negative questions - closed questions - deleted questions) / total question >=.5
You have 2 questions that are deleted, closed, and downvoted, and 9 questions total, so you current score is
(9 - 2 - 2 - 2) / 9 = .33
If you want the badge, you will have to ask 3 more positively received questions.
