Dr. Bob's Skeptical Quiz

Quiz results - December 2005

WINNER this month has not won before, but came a very near miss in January 1999 (yes 1999). Welcome back, and congratulations on winning first time from your new location in Perth:

Peter Haines

There were some promising new entrants on their first time, including one with a devastating reply to Q1. G’day everybody. Do people have more time to waste at Christmas?

Q1 What is the best excuse for having failed to do something that was wanted “as soon as possible”?

Dr Bob’s Answer (which I suspect could be bettered):

It wasn't possible

(and I was right) - I stand humbled by this one:

• The most pathetic excuse I've ever heard was "I had a hard disk disaster on 28 October and lost all my useful files and e-mails"
• "Arhm, er, sorry, but I couldn't do it 'cos I just died. I'm just so rilly happy that my twin brother could pass this message on to you, and thanks also to John Edward for passing it on to him. I'll go back to being dead now. Sorry. Thanks. See you later. 'Bye."
• "I'm sorry sir but i have been taking your advice regarding stress minimisation in the work place. I hope my mantric breathing tape did not disturb you. My classes have been going well and i'm pleased to inform you that all your employees were moments away from mental nirvana when you so rudely interrupted. Now if you would like to participate i would recommend you pull up a yoga mat and stop yelling at us. Stress management should descend from above."
• "My Grandma got her arm caught in the microwave"
• "'soon' is a term based around personal incredulity and perception of time. 'Soon' to you may have meant within the next five or ten minutes, but in my interpretation 'soon' meant merely within the confines of my own personal life-time"
• ...OOHH!! I got it! Not knowing what the term "ASAP" means, and then wasting all your time running over to a drug store to buy a pocket dictionary, only to find that "ASAP" is not a certified word.
• being a politician
• being dead
• Bite my Shiny Metal Ass
• Clearly, it's not possible to have finished that yet...
• Death. Your own. Closely followed by a miraculous resurrection. Happens most Fridays to blokes, I understand.
• Diarrhea.
• Didn't want it enough
• Family problems: as in some one died or something.
• I didn't have the time or I couldn't be bothered and it was too hard for me.
• I do not use excuses. I may, or may not, offer a reason as to why my actions do not mesh with your expectations. In this case, for reasons I will not give here, my actualisation of your expectations are not yet possible.
• I had to go to my Grandmother's funeral.
• I wanted to do it properly - if I don't have enough time to do it to the best of my ability then why bother doing it at all? Shoddy practices means a shoddy outcome. Why don't you take some responsibility? (classic Type-A)
• I was kidnapped by cat-looking aliens and they want to suck my brains out!
• It hasn't been possible yet. See there's this quiz I had to take . . .
• it is impossible to fail. If it isn't done yet, it is still possible, and may get done soon!
• It was as soon as possible from MY perspective ... followed by packing up of your desk and quietly leaving the building.
• I know it’s important, I know it’s late, but I’ve just gotta finish Dr Bob’s quiz first!
• No, you can't always get what you want / You can't always get what you want / You can't always get what you want / But if you try sometime you might find / You get what you need
• Not understanding what "ASAP" is abbreviated for, or not knowing how to do or complete the task which was entrusted.
• Possible is not an event or unit of time, hence cannot be derived from soon.
• Scarlett O´Hara´s excuse is fine: after all, tomorrow is another day.
• Some contingency made it impossible to do it any sooner, and therefore the task was in fact completed "as soon as possible". It just wasn't as soon as someone else wanted.
• that you have done, was about to print it off, when you realised that there was no more ink left in your printer, so you started to write it out, when the power shut off.
• The completion of a task is always possible and therefore can be completed at anytime. This means that there is no timeframe for completing something as soon as possible.
• The poor grammar of the request to perform something as quickly as is possible sent me into an invective-filled harangue followed by a ten-minute attack of ennui with weltschmertz.
• The request was made to a man by a woman and wasn't understood. Psychiatrist Michael Hunter and fellow researchers at the University of Sheffield in England monitored the brain activity of 12 men as they listened to voice recordings and found they process male voices differently from those of females. Women's voices stimulate an area of the brain used for processing complex sounds, like music. Male voices activate the "mind's eye," a region of the brain used for conjuring imagery. “The female voice is actually more complex than the male voice, due to differences in the size and shape of the vocal cords and larynx between men and women, and also due to women having greater natural ‘melody’ in their voices.” http://www.discover.com/issues/nov-05/rd/men-hear-womens/
• Went on a holiday and i was hoping that a coworker could fix it up for me ;)
• What was the question? I forgot what you said.
• You died of a heroin overdose (as Janis Joplin did the night before the day she was to finish the vocals for the song "Buried Alive In The Blues)!
• Your own death - hard to argue with
• Your own death, the death of a loved one, the loss of one or more limbs, or, barring any of these terrible events, "my computer crashed and I lost everything" if the request requires a computer - shuts 'em up every time!

Q2 London’s National Gallery, perversely, contains paintings mostly by non-British artists. A fox got trapped in the gallery overnight. Which room did the fox prefer to hang around in?

Answer Tudor and Georgian rooms (the darkest rooms). Sorry I got the wrong gallery. Bloody rooms full of paintings. You seen one, you seen them all.

• Big hint Bob. Possibly then the Tudor and Georgian rooms? as it was british fox?
• Bugger. I sent an email to the NatGal asking them this question, and they replied they had better things to do than helping people out winning trivia quizzes. So I would have to guess the room where ´Fox Hill´ by Camille Pissarro hangs.
• By "fox" I take it you mean the small red-furred canine creature, as opposed to a larger, red-furred, slinkily-dressed curvaceous human female... Because if the latter, she would hang around where the canapes, champagne, and all the good-looking hunks are, baby! Naturally.
• Canteen
• Good lord. Something ironic - the fox-hunting paintings room, or some such?
• Hmm, National gallery, sorry do not know. For the National Portrait Gallery it wasn't trapped but rather a piece of art, and in the Tudor and Georgian rooms, http://www.ezilon.com/information/printer_10311.shtml .
• I thought we stopped calling attractive women foxes in the early 1980's. Nonetheless I think I saw the security video of that night on the internet. I didn't pay much attention to the paintings though.
• I’m not a fox, but if I were I reckon I’d be straight into the cafeteria rummaging through the bins and pantry looking for food, and pissing on the table legs. Now if I were a bee, I’d have more interest in the actual art.
• In the Central Gallery under the portrait of Lord Ribblesdale, Master of the Buckhounds by Sargent
• In the room with the dog food exhibit. The artist had emptied a tin of Chum(tm) Chicken and Ham onto the floor to represent "human integral modesty and the fight for social freedom and liberalisation of the partesian conformisation within the present socio-humano-commune, and some dog food". The work is fervently regarded within the art world as one of the most moving and inspirational pieces ever to have been exhibited to the public.
• It was a bit disorientated at not being chased around by bloodthirsty aristocrats, shot in cold blood and then ripped to pieces by bloodhounds. So it just waited in the foyer until it was let out and returned to its natural habitat.
• Ladies toilet
• No room exists; however, a main floor, and a wing is available. [So it’d be able to fly then, if only in a circle]
• Not in the same as the bees
• Not so much trapped in, as released by artist Francis Alÿs, http://www.ivarhagendoorn.com/personal/archives/2005/week46.html It appears that the fox spends the most time with some renaissance portraits in the style and era of Rubens, but which I can't immediately place. Bet some child's nappy leaked on that black leather couch in the centre.
• Oh a trapped fox with artistic leanings, wondering which room to "hang around in". Maybe she can read the floor plan better than the rest of us and would probably be tired so... The Expresso bar
• Olga's Gallery, containing Gainsborough's "Dogs chasing a fox"
• One stuffed full of old dead people stolen from other countries? maybe?
• Room A
• Security.
• She preferred the bathroom as she was a fox and couldn't take her eyes off herself and this room offered the most mirrors....
• Sunley Room (he he hanging around in the gallery .. good one) [Cripes, I did not notice that!]
• The 20th Century room. Made the fox feel quite a star.
• The bathroom
• The canteen? Perhaps the one with the Pissarro entitled Fox Hill, Upper Norwood? Pissarro also painted my local station.
• the Chicken Room
• The Cubists painters
• The Drawing Room
• The guards room - it was warm and there was food
• The henhouse, or ladies' toilets
• The kitchen? I know if I were a fox, I would head straight for food. Unless they have a live poultry section, then I guess he would hang around there. Maybe the security guard has a pet rabbit that does the rounds with him. If he did, the fox would hang out near the cage.
• The one where they hang 'Fox Hill, Upper Norwood'. If it was in Australia, it would be 'Fox Hill, Upper Gum Tree'.
• The one with a picture of "foxy lady" (remember Jimi Hendrix's lyric line in "Purple Haze")?
• The one with the biggest, most expensive foreign art so that he could destroy it when he got bored or hungry.
• the one with the exit sign on the door
• The Rabbit Room
• The room containing "Fox Hill, Upper Norwood" painted by PISSARRO, Camille
• The room containing A Cock, Hens and Chicks, by Melchior d'Hondecoeter.
• The room with bunnies on it...
• The Tudor and Georgian rooms. Its preferred habitat may be farmlands and dense undergrowth; but a fox has been given the run of the National Portrait Gallery's Tudor and Georgian rooms, which are lined with portraits of those who might well have hunted its ancestors.
• The Tudor portraits, yoiks.
• The Tudor Room, Presumably because it was the darkest [YES]
• Tudor and Georgian rooms
• Wait, a question to you. If this "Gallery" is so good and has wonderful paintings and stuff, wouldn't they have like THE best security guards to you know guard the stuff? And then if the criminals don't get past them...how does a fox? Did a man wearing overly large pants walk in, pretending to have a massive erection and walk in there and let the fox go... Well, if that's what really happened, I have another question, only this time to the man with the fox in his boxers. Why? And also, did you like to have the fox in your pants? Do you plan on doing this again any time soon?
• where are grapes.

Q3 If bees were to get into the National Gallery, which painting would they like best?

Answer Van Gogh's Sunflowers

• "Rose of Tralee"? Er, no, that's a pub. "Irises"? Nup, no nectar. Probably one of those poncy Manet/Monet/Matisse daubings with their fabulously frothy flibbertigibbety floral fields.
• "The Hive" by Scheller
• Anything from Bacchiacca to Burkel.
• Bees? in the national gallery? surely some terrorist plot! i feel a media blitz and a whole buncha right wing reactionism coming on.
• Bee-ts me!
• Bumblebees have a blue preference, and so may go for "Irises" by Monet, while honeybees have a yellow preference, and may go for "Sunflowers" by van Gogh
• copy of Sunflowers (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh
• Cupid complaining to Venus about being stung by bees.
• depends; which Nation?
• Don't know National Gallery, i think the bees don't know it either.
• either "Cupid complaining to Venus" 1525 by CRANACH the elder wherein Cupid complains to Venus of being stung by bees when stealing a honeycomb OR "The Death of Eurydice" 1552-71 NICCOLO dell'Abate wherein Aristaeus consults his mother Cyrene concerning the death of his bees. Courtesy of the National Galleries search engine - boy did they paint some interesting subjects in those days!
• Fruit and Flowers in a Terracotta Vase, by Jan van. Just because it is bright, and has flowers. BUT, I guess if they are having an exhibition of paintings coated in honey, or sugar, then they would probably hang around that. I would, if I were a honey bee.....
• Hollyhocks and other flowers in a vase, by Jan van Huysum.
• I believe that meticulous research shows that the worker bee, when presented with a diversity of artistic talent, shows a definite preference for painted flowers, particularly Vinny’s classic ‘Sunflowers’ (who funds this sort of crap?). It’s a very little known fact that while he was trying to finish this work, the constant buzzing drove him to cut his left ear off.
• I know nothing about the (not my) national gallery, something painted with flowers??? Pollen??
• There's a picture by Cranach of Cupid being stung by bees. They might enjoy that if they were particularly malicious bees. I suppose I should go and look, it's about 400yds from here. [aarghh, Steve, you can share an experience with me. Save your lunch money for a week, and even if starving and penniless, with your last effort go to the NG’s souvenir shop in the basement. On the shelves just right of the door you will find not just one but MANY copies of Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, the best film ever made and the late Pope’s favourite film. There are two copies of this in Melbourne, the other guy would not sell his to me. Watch the film, and you will be excused from doing this quiz for another 10 years. You aren’t allowed to take photos, but I got special permission and the shop manager snapped this one during my visit in October 2005. The NG can throw away the paintings and other works of art, and just keep Andrei Rublev.]
• If I were a bee, I'd prefer a Nederlandish floral realism still-life or the Blood and Wax performance piece by Spence of a woman covered in honey and goose fat, but the latter's not a painting, so I'll go with the 'Cupid Complaining to Venus' by Cranach the Elder: Cupid has stolen a honeycomb and is being stung by bees in an allegory about pain mixed with pleasure and odd hats on women posing nude for charity calendars.
• I'm guessing you're wanting us to answer the Van Gogh (because it's so yellow). I would hope that none of them would be volatile enough to attract bees, anyway. If they were volatile then the restoration aint working. Or maybe bees would be attracted to the smells of cleaning fluids on the most recently restored picture?
• In the room with the honey jar exhibit. The artist had emptied a honey onto the floor to represent "human integral modesty and the fight for social freedom and liberalisation of the partesian conformisation within the present socio-humano-commune, and some spilt honey". The work is fervently regarded within the art world as one of the most moving and inspirational pieces ever to have been exhibited to the public, second to the neighbouring "Dog Food" exhibit.
• Joseph Anton Koch, Franz Horny, Franz Pforr, Ernst Fries. Don't German artists have great names? What was the question again? Bees? They're all philistines and wouldn't know a classical piece of art if they flew into it. ..he he...Franz Horny... [do you want Fries with that?]
• Leonardo's (i think [No that was Descartes]) flower vase painting
• Mr & Mrs Andrews - bees unlike foxes prefer Gainsborough, having become bored with Vincent’s pollen challenged flowers after a few hours. (I'm assuming they were also trapped overnight).
• OK, I confess. I wiped the jam on the Van Gogh. Are you happy now?
• Presumably one made from honey
• Something by watercolourist Bee Morrison? Or perhaps by portraitist Bee Booth? How about Nancy (Bee-Bee) Wigglesworth? Oh, bee-hive!
• Sunflowers (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890), National Gallery, London. It helps to add drops of sucrose to the painting’s surface
• Sunflowers (Vincent Van Gogh) or Fruit, Flowers, and Dead Birds (Wybrand Hendriks)
• Sunflowers (VvG)
• Sunflowers by Van Gogh
• Sunflowers by Vincent Van Gogh, of course!
• Sunflowers, by Van Gogh
• Sunflowers.
• The flower area, or one with the most colors... OH! The food place!
• the flower one
• The one made of honey.
• The one that the fox accidentally smeared with honey from the sandwich that the guards gave to him
• The painting of Ken Ham's bonnet (because he has a bee in his bonnet, right)?
• The Water-Lily Pond by Monet
• Van Gogh http://www.biology.qmul.ac.uk/research/staff/chittka/vgweb.htm
• Well, I think that the coster exipit would be most appropret. Why you ask, I don't really know. I am still pondering this answer myself.
• Which fucking "National Gallery" are you talking about, Bob? [The National Fucking Gallery of course. Entry for over 18s only. ]

Q4 What did Linda Lovelace, star of the movie Deep Throat, call her pet cat?

Answer Adolf Hitler

• "one eye"
• "Spring", because it takes more than one swallow to make.
• ...There's a movie titled "Deep Throat"? ...What next? "Hacking Cough"? "Long Toe"? "Reacting Knee"? But then again, those movies would be great. Why you ask? Cat's names would be all...Meredith...why? I don't know...
• ...There's really a movie called "Deep Throat"? ...wow, this is more confusing then the Berumda Triangle... Socks?
• All cats are dead ugly, so Linda named hers "Gargleoyle".
• Adolf Hitler
• Adolf Hitler
• Adolf Hitler
• Adolf Hitler - a perverse name for a jewish cat though...
• Adolf Hitler. But as I have not seen the movie, and am making all sorts of wild assumptions (he he...giggle...snicker...), it probably wouldn't matter what she called it. It would come out more like a grunt, or gargling sound. Kinda muffled.......
• Adolph Hitler, but I prefer Tonsils for a name. [As one would, if Hitler were one’s name]
• Adolph Hitler
• Adolph Hitler
• Adolph Hitler
• Adolph Hitler
• Adolph Hitler
• Adolph Hitler, because he had a little black stripe under his nose not unlike a Hitler moustache
• Adolph Hitler. Remind me to cross her off my Christmas card list.
• Are you trying to encourage us to go and see that terrible "documentary"? Shame, Bob, shame! (Will 80% of the answers to be "pussy", or are quiz afficionados better than that?) [was about 40% - so they are better, but not much better]
• Beaver
• Deepthroatpussylovelace
• john howard
• misha
• Mr Cuddles
• Mrs Slocum.
• No pussy jokes here please! You would have to be as bad as Adolph Hitler.
• No pussy jokes here, since she was Jewish and the cat was Adolf Hitler
• Obsolete - she doesn't need her pussy anymore!
• Oh another one on those "We'll get you in trouble at work questions", very cunning Dr. Got away with it though because I know it's not pussy.. its Adolph H. cos of the cool haircut and moustache.
• oh far out, get over 'deep throat', entire male population of the world.
• Pussy
• Pussy
• Pussy
• Pussy
• Pussy, what else?
• RoadKill?
• Sadly, "adolph hitler"
• She call the moggy Adolf Hitler. Not that it had any overt fascist tendencies, it just looked like him. If you don’t believe a cat could ever look like ‘The Great Dictator’, then look here and think again: http://www.drunkcow.com/files/picture/48508999.jpg OK, that moustache does look a bit sus. [But the eyes are just right]
• She named it after her two favourite bond villains, Blow-felt and Odd-job. Oddfelt.
• Short Arse?
• Tom or Harry
• Toothbrush.
• Umm, Dr. Bob I'm not familiar with Ms. Lovelace's pets. But, have you seen the movie and are you familiar with American slang? She may not have been talking about her cat.
• Unhappy porn starlet, Linda Lovelace, had a cat called Adolf Hitler. [That’d make two unhappy animals then]. Apparently it had a sort of Hitler moustache. So she called it Adolf Hitler.
• Uvula: which is relevant to Deep Throat and is almost an anagram of another part of her anatomy perhaps not so frequently utilised
• What does it matter - cats never come when they are called!
• Who would have guessed... Bloody Adolf Hitler AGAIN!
• Philip Glass? no. Captain Beefheart? nope. Sigur Ros? nono. So it must be Adolf Hitler.

Q5 To his dismay, what body part kept sticking out through Albert Einstein’s clothing?

Answer His big toe

• ...Let's be G rated here people.
• Absent-minded fellow, he kept forgetting to do up his ... No, actually it was his elbow - he wore out the sleeves of his jackets.
• Ah, this is a trick. You want us to think it was one of Einstein's own body parts, when actually it was the body-part of one of his pervy uncles. Or his "special relative" as Einstein used to call him.
• Ankles
• Big toe http://www.anecdotage.com/index.php?aid=14046
• Cock in his sock..? No - it was his toes I think - maybe
• Crown
• Either Heisenberg was up to his old practical jokes with viagra again, or it was his hair (out of his hat)
• Elbows.
• Err..what!! His big toe :)
• Hair
• Head, hands, elbows (in short sleeve shirts), feet, knees and ankles whilst not wearing sox. We could elaborate, hair, nose. eyes, lips, eyebrows, fingers, fingernails, knuckles, wrist, teeth
• His 11th finger.
• His adam's apple
• his back hump
• His big toe, or perhaps even both big toes.
• His big toe, so he stopped wearing socks
• His big toe. "When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks." - Albert Einstein
• His bum. Everytime he bent over to continue writing to the bottom of the blackboard it welcomed the onlookers. He was a scientist not a plumber!
• His E
• his elbows
• His enormous erect penis (who says physicists can't be virile)?
• His enormous sense of self worth.
• His head!
• His head. He had such an ugly noggin, or so he thought. If there were just a way to cover it up......His nickname was "little smart riding hood" for a while (a little know fact, previously only known to me). I know it's true because a fox and a bee told me so while I was in the national gallery in london, patting a cat called hitler....
• His head. Just kept poking up thru his shirt collar.
• His head. Oy vay - what I bonce, I'm telling you!
• His landlord's leg. He was finally able to make it to the dump, however with the last body part. The notoriety of the case caused him to flee to America, however.
• His navel (his shirts would part at the last button to reveal his navel through a little triangular window.)
• His 'relatively' large head (and intellect)
• His small intestine
• His stomach
• His weinershnitzel.
• I have the same problem. My big toe keeps breaking through my socks. I could cut my toe nails, or darn the holes, but it’s all too much effort. I champion the great mans simple and logical solution: don’t wear socks!
• NO NO not that bit. I am too lazy to google (sounds like a dance) knees, elbows? no I will settle for Adam's Apple but did he wear high collars?
• shiny knee
• Too easy to say his penis or his mane of white hair. His big toe, perhaps? His fifth vertebrae? His left bumcheek?
• Tsk tsk, our minds drift to thoughts of when Al met Marilyn Monroe, but it was his elbows, hence those uglifying patches on his donnishly rumpled jackets.
• Well, let's just say that Dr. Bob should know this one on first hand accounts. Just Kidding. ...I thought this was G rated... well, being myself i will enjoy not saying it. the error of our ways-*does speech of America being PG13 constantly* Okay, its a boner.
• A spare leg he kept in his fob pocket. He apparently had a morbid fear of toppling over and kept the spare so he could prop himself up during and after a night on the turps. [And his rendition of “Jake the Peg” was always a hit at parties]

Q6 What is happening here?

Real Answer:

Lunar occultation of the Pleiades, 8:28pm 16 November 2005

Here’s a rare answer these days:

• Dunno, I can't google this one

WRONG ANSWER: (later: and I am amazed to find who sent this one in. Shame, Mr Hawley, shame)

• Whatever it is, it's happening VERY SLOOOOWWWWLLYYYYYYY...

Three right answers:

• A Lunar Occultation of an asterism
• A nice view of the full moon from the southern hemisphere. The little points of light, whilst cunningly disguised as stars, are actually Pleiadean spaceships on their way down to visit Billy Meier. You can tell they’re Pleiadean by the way they fly in formation mimicking their home constellation.
• A cartoonish rendition of Earth's moon occluding the Pleiades star cluster? Yaaaay!! Occultation!!

• 6 moons around jupiter??
• A bad blind date.
• A Petrie dish is growing mould
• Aliens are attempting to abscond with the Moon. Lunar larceny! Selen seduction - not that she needed seduction. You can easily see six of their tractor beam generators in orbit around the moon. I dont bloody bloody bloody know its an isolted image, snatched form obscurity by your devious mind it an attempt to torment we poor fools who visit here for some light entertainment.
• alignment of the stars or planets
• All the UFO recon ships are forming a cirle round the moon. Once the circle is complete, it will create an harmonic resonance with the universe, and world peace will break out.
• America's Star wars programme in action - prototype
• Astro ships are landing on the moon
• brownian motion
• Darth vader and other spaceships wants to destroy The Death Moon
• Doctor Bob has run out of his mansion, ripped all of his clothes off, and started drumming his chest and howling at the moon. Mrs Bob in the meantime has secretly followed him with a polaroid camera - to get proof of her husband's antics - but just as she was about to take the photo, she slipped on a pair of Dr Bob's discarded y-fronts and took a photo of the full-moon.
• Either someone photographed the moon over a constellation for some astrological purpose, or it is faked for some astrological purpose
• Harmonic convergence.
• I don't know but i feel a howl coming on.
• If the main part of the picture is earth there are 8 planets in the vicinity so has someone been clever and created a photo that shows them all by devious means (or delayed photography)
• If you stare at the crater on the top left of the moon(?), you can see a fair resemblance to linda lovelace after a big night.
• Is it some sort of time delay photograph of the space shuttle fixing Hubble? Or, perhaps, the moon in front of Scorpio, as seen from a space shuttle which is much closer to the moon than we are (hence the scale issues). :-S
• Is it the moon having an annulus horribilis?
• It is actually two images put together. In a single image the moon's brightness would obscure any stars as close as the photo shows.
• Its the lights we saw traveling around the moon one afternoon about 6 years ago. Well, its true.
• It's the most beautiful moon in the universe, it is our moon. Less drama!
• Nothing much is happening, but it looks like someone stuck pinholes in the backing paper
• Nothing much, clear night, full moon, no cow.
• Nothing. It is a still photo.
• old orbiters are flying around the moon
• Planetary Alignment
• probably those pesky Mysterons up to no good again or someones dropped something onto the lens
• Somebody is using a microscope to examine the fluff in their navel
• Someone is getting a great shot of the moon and the eight other planets in our solar system...
• Somewhat aged pizza dough on a black table with some flour scattered about
• The aliens are coming, the aliens are coming. Alternatively, someone needs to clean their lens.
• The cheese the moon is made of is turning yellow instead of white.
• The full moon is passing through Orion.
• The moon captured in some constellation, possibly Gemini.
• the moon is full and i'm feeling a strange itching on the palms of my hands....
• The moon is in Auriga
• The moon is in front of stars
• The moon is possessed! It is surrounded by six stars! THE MARK OF THE BEAST!!!!!! Quick, get the garlic and molasses. Or is that honey and fox urine? Doesn't matter, anyway, the world is going to end soon - JUST LOOK AT THE MOON, PEOPLE! ARMAGEDDON! ARMAGEDDON! [Armageddon out of here]
• The moon is reflecting sunlight, and the stars are shining all by themselves.
• the moon is setting
• The moon is slowly changing to cheese. Nah, just Kidding, Its in full moon status right now, next would be Gibbous, than it will start to tap dance uncontrollably, this is how "World Peace" will be set in to motion, causing everyone to follow the moon. Don't my theorys prove that I'm inteligent?
• The moon is winking at me in a seductive way ... No wonder why the astronauts made so many trips to the moon, and you know, never came back.
• This is a process called "night-time", or simply "night". At 'night' all the blue falls from the sky and into the sea where it sleeps with the fish till day time. Tiny sparkling fairies fill the sky and form patterns like a plough, and a bull. The moon comes in and pushes it's way through the fairies [as does the apostrophe]. We don't realise this happens because we are all fast asleep in bed after being tucked in by mum.
• Well, this planet is going round, as planets do, and all its little satellites are going round too. A bit like the young couple who are stuck in a revolving door - they've been going round together for years.

Comments:

• Am I first?
• I will forward the rest of my answers as soon as possible.
• Clearly not a product of Intelligent Design.
• Did you know, that whilst in the UK we think that bees only sting once and die but wasps can sting as many times as they like, it's actually the opposite that is true for most species of bees and wasps?
• Do you honestly expect us to Google for very long in the silly season? Have a good one Bob, may the quiz be with you. (I could say Merry Christmas in a non religious way, but wont as I've heard it causes offence, and you know we wouldn't want that)
• dr bob, dr bob, thou art a little slob. Sorry. you're not. it's just that it rhymed.
• dr bob, you're v cute.
• Esoteric; or what?
• Falalalala lala la la
• Great selection of questions - I was not even tempted to use Google or books I just decided to have fun. PS have your next conference in Broome (WA variety) usually good deals going in the tourist season and I may volunteer to be your local representative - but perhaps that requires Senate approval (rush it through before Christmas the "others" do)
• Half the questions I didn’t get. Like the bees and the fox... Strange questions...
• Hey, Dr. Bob, my eye itches, and I keep scratching it, but as a result, it just itches more... What do I do? P.S I can't see now, I should have trimmed my nails...
• Hi Bob
• HOW TO PREPARE TO PERFORM AN APPENDECTOMY. Use this procedure only when you are absolutely certain that the person in question actually has appendicitis. Appendicitis can be characterized as a sharp pain somewhere on the lower right portion of the torso. The pain should be sharp enough that the person says "oww, I think I have appendicitis." If they say "oww, I think I have wind," this is a good indication that they only have wind. It is probably also a good idea to call an ambulance before proceeding. You will need: A sharp knife, a pair of scissors, a smock or apron or clothes you don't care too much about, and help from a couple of strong people....
• I didn't google and gave sort of stock smart ass answers. I think you will still find this in the top 90% of submissions, however.
• I do not know him. [Your local church can help]
• I feel your quiz lacks music... and so I leave some for your enjoyment: dung dung dung dung duuuuuuung
• I hope you can get QI in Aus, it's right up your street (http://www.qi.com/ or http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/qi/)
• I tried so hard to be serious. I really did. Oh well, mabey next time....lol
• Is anything just as it seems?
• Is your quiz Intelligently Designed?
• Just getting back into practice early here...
• Long time since I've tried your quiz. Obviously didn't have enough to do over the Xmas break. Hopefully better luck this time.
• Merry stolen pagan holiday Dr Bob!
• My first ever entry Dr Bob, I think I've got this right - if you don't know the answers you try to be funny. What if you're stupid and unfunny? [Ah, here my great experience comes to the fore. Stand aside, please, while I mount the podium. Ahem. Quiet please. Ahem. Ahem. When one is stupid and unfunny, one should .... um ... ]
• nah
• No comment.
• Not bad a bit simple
• Nothing
• Now that you have expanded my mind I should be able to steer clear of those mind altering drugs for a while!
• peace
• Should skeptics be skeptical of the existence of "sundown towns" in the USA, meaning towns that had signs and ordinances that black people had to be out of town by sundown? No pictures of such signs have been found or such ordinances on the books, but there is a strong oral tradition that they existed. But oral tradition is what UFOs and cryptozoology had going for it. So is disbelief warranted?
• Strewth, Dr Bob, you have no idea how hard it was not to turn Q4 on Linda Lovelace's cat into a pussy joke. Aargh, now I've used 'Linda Lovelace' and 'hard' in the same sentence. 'It' wasn't really hard at all, sorry Dr Bob, I've really stuffed this up. 'Stuffed', aargh, I've done it again, sorry again, oh bugger it, I'm outa here...
• Thank you for the waste of time
• This months questions looked hard at first, but soon cracked under torture
• this seems really random...
• Was i even close. Let me win :P
• Well, I'm blonde, and I'd just like to say the answer to the trivial pursuit question in the comments section "If you were in a vacuum and someone called you, could you hear it", isn't "Is it on", it's "if you've been in the vacuum for more than a couple of minutes, no". And you can tell I'm a blonde, because I didn't get that it was a joke. Ha, ha.
• What the??