Dr. Bob's Skeptical Quiz

Quiz results - June 2007

Another black month at Castle Bob, the questions were so easy that a lot of people got all 6 right. Only one spotted the alternative meaning of “defenestrated” and that was anonymous ... the third defenestration of Prague could be “del c:\windows\*.* /y”. What with so many correct answers it is as hard as ever to name a winner, but long overdue for recognition is another Canadian, this time an Ottawan -

Wendy Mooney

PS I am using OpenOffice.org Writer for the first time this month. Isn't that interesting and relevant? Let's see what the webmaster makes of formatting my text.

Q1 The Statue of Liberty has a copper skin - where did the copper come from?

Answer Probably the mine at Nizhny Tagil, north of Ekaterinburg

• The Statue of Liberty, dedicated on October 28, 1886, was constructed of copper thought to have come from French-owned mines in Norway.
• A copper mine perhaps? Okay, some sources say Visnes, in Norway, others Russia.
• A copper mine, duh! The copper ore got extracted from the mine, it got isolated by froth flotation from the slaggy stuff, then it got heated in the presence of silicon dioxide and then carbon, and yeh.
• Chalcopyrites, probably.
• Come on, do I have to explain this again? In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth AND the copper. Or did he create the copper after he created the Sun? Anyway, something like that, my Hebrew isn't very good.
• Depends how far back you want to look - it is usually smelted from copper ore, the metal is a product of stellar fusion which was gathered up in the condensing solar system, formed part of the crust and mantile of planet earth, was deposited as a complex sulphite in deep ocean vents, buried by sediment as an ore body, raised by plate tectonics, in this particular bit along the coast of Norway (Visnes) - the bit designed by Slaati Baardfast
• From the French-owned Visnes Mine near Stavanger, Norway
• In the village of Visnes in the municipality of Karmøy, Norway, tradition holds that the copper came from the French-owned Visnes Mine.[15][16] Ore from this mine, refined in France and Belgium, was a significant source of European copper in the late nineteenth century. In 1985, Bell Laboratories used emission spectrography to compare samples of copper from the Visnes Mines and from the Statue of Liberty, found the spectrum of impurities to be very similar, and concluded that the evidence argued strongly for a Norwegian origin of the copper. Other sources say that the copper was mined in Nizhniy Tagil. (Thank you Wikipedia)
• It probably came from a place called Visnes in Norway, but there are no reliable records to support this.
• Like cephalopods, she is a true "blue blood". This is rich in copper and gives her that wonderful patina.(Though some have mumbled something about copper mines located in Norway, I believe this just too fanciful!)
• Lyon, France. The copper in question was a gendarme called Pierre Laliberté who served in the French police from 1855 to 1886. He was killed in the act of saving a baby from a sailor's wrath. He was immortalised for his bravery by being skinned. It took six months of constant attention to stretch his skin enough to fit it over the statue which was named after him: Statue de Laliberté. Sadly his story was all but forgotten when the Americans mistranslated the name.
• Melted-down arthritis bracelets confiscated from the huddled masses. "Cu later", cried the h. masses to their ineffective but expensive jewellery as the bracelets were wrenched cruelly from their gnarled limbs by Ellis Island's finest. And see them later they did, albeit with verdigris.
• Most sources agree it came from a copper mine. Location isn't real clear probably Norway or Russia.
• Must have something to do with the Copper Field(s) Company. When not getting paid for their delivery of copper, they snatched the monument some century later under the cloak of darkness. Their self-appointed leader went by the name of David.
• Nobody really knows but is likely that it came from a copper mine. Tests indicate that probably that is correct.
• Norway
• NYPD ?
• Probably from the skin of a few indians
• Samples of the copper from the Statue of Liberty were analysed by emission spectography and the metallurgical evidence argues strongly that copper came from the French-owned Visnes Mine near Stavanger, Norway. Could this really be true Dr Bob? Not Iceland, nor Sweden, but somewhere in between?
• Scotland Yard, of course.
• She has copper skin because she has been out in the sun for over 100 years without sunscreen. It is a surprise that the skin is not red, or even a solid melanoma.
• Skin flailed off the bodies of policemen ("coppers")?
• Sun Hill nick, me old china.
• Sunhill- well at least thats apparently were all the coppers in England are from. Yes, I watch The Bill.
• The 7th precinct, if memory serves me correctly, a sergeant.
• The Bowels of the Earthy
• The copper came from a police station in South Australia.
• The copper mines at Visnes, in the municipality of Karmøy (one of the largest islands in the archipelago off south-western Norway).
• The French made the statue possibly from the French owned Visne copper mine in Norway.
• The French skinned eighty-four thousand, three hundred and seventeen Copperhead snakes.
• the ground of course, probably out of a mine from norway. Or maybe Nizhniy Tagil in russia.
• the ground. most copper is found as an ore, which neds mining, etc...
• Visnes
• Visnes copper mines at Karmoy, Norway
• Visnes in the municipality of Karmoy, Norway.
• Visnes mine, Norway
• Visnes, Norway
• Visnes, Norway.
• Visnes, Norway.
• Visnes. If it had been from NSW it would have taken bribes, like most of their coppers do.

Q2 What did Goebbels give Hitler for Christmas in 1937?

Answer A set of 18 Mickey Mouse films

• 18 Mickey Mouse films. I reckon a full set of the The Three Stooges collection, like my children gave me recently, would have been far more apt.
• A 324cm cigar, teh boonk.
• A bit like Kerry Packer's helicopter pilot, he gave him a ball. Or so the song goes, anyway.
• A copper mine. Hitler filled it with the dead bodies of his past secretaries.
• A German Shepherd fur lined Liederhausen and Austria.
• A homeopathic remedy for his missing testicle.
• A lovely negligee with matching fluffy high heeled slippers.
• A Luger.
• A nice scarf he knitted and a beanie he bought from a second hand shop.
• A present.
• A puppy
• A set of bible verses denouncing Jewish people.
• Ancedotal accounts suggest Goebbels gave Hitler 12 Mickey Mouse Movies, Prints or 'Film Prints' (definitions of each pending) in Christmas 1937.
• As well as a christmas card he also gave him 18 Mickey Mouse films. Had he thought about it he could have given him only one, and then he would not have had to struggle for an original present for the following 17 years.
• Austria
• Avon
• Eighteen Mickey Mouse films.
• Either a slim volume of his own poetry, or der klapp
• Film prints of 12 Mickey Mouse cartoons.
• Film prints of 12 Mickey Mouse cartoons. Appropriate, given Walt's "alleged" leanings.
• Film prints of 12 Mickey Mouse cartoons. 'He is very happy about these treasures,' Goebbels writes in his diary this day, 'which will hopefully bring him much fun and relaxation.'
• He didn't give him anything, ticked off by the Hitler's constant taking the MICKEY out of him.
• Hitler took the Mickey from Goebbels: 12 cartoons featuring a mouse.
• In 1937, for a Christmas present, Goebbels gave Hitler 18 Mickey Mouse films
• Mickey Mouse cartoon prints.
• Mickey Mouse cartoons
• No idea! [An appropriate gift in the circumstances, sadly rejected ... it would have been better if Hitler had had “no idea”]
• Nothing like some Walt Disney movies to lighten up your day and take the Mickey.
• One big ball.
• One only Rocky Mountain Oyster.
• Poland on a plate?
• Poland
• Presumably Hitler was sick of sychophantic speeches like he always got for his birthday, and got tired of making paper aeroplanes with them, so they gave him a bunch of Mickey Mouse Comics (or was it 8 mm movies???) instead.
• Sorry Dr. Bob, I refuse to look up, or answer any questions about two of the most odious pieces of sh*t that ever walked the planet.
• The Berghof I think.
• The dummies guide to world domination
• The portrait of the fallen madona with the big boobies
• This is scary. 18 Mickey Mouse films. Love the Disney/ Hitler connection there Dr Bob. Lovely.
• Three pairs of socks, a chocolate orange and the book 'Another 101 great reasons to invade Poland'.
• Ugg Boots - it was chilly and he cared about the Fuherer's feet.
• What sort of a Mickey Mouse question is this?
• Wrong year for Poland, or Czechoslovakia so probably just some Mickey Mouse gift.

Q3 In 1980, why was Mobutu Sese Seko in such a hurry to marry his mistress?

Answer The Pope was coming on a visit and he did not want to be told off

• The Pope was calling in for afternoon buttered scones and tea, so Mobutu Sese Seko married his mistress as he did not want to offend his visitor's sensitivities. Too bad about all the murders, torturing, theiving, poverty, general miserableness etc etc that he was responsible for. That apparently was acceptable to Il Papa, but living in sin? No, never.
• 1980 is a good year to hurry into mistress marriage - especially if you need to rush before the papal visit.
• Another Pope question? I thought we did them last month.
• As the Pope (John Paul II) was going to arrive the next day, he thought it wise to legitimise the relationship with his mistress (and mother to their kids).
• Because he had thousands of dollars, and he just needed her account number to store it for a while.
• Because he wanted to.
• Because it was traditional in his culture to take your wife's surname and it was easier to spell Mobutu Smith to the local Video Eazy.
• Because she was pregnant and he wanted to do the right thing by her (even African dictators can have a sense of honor).
• Because the Pope (well known for supporting vicious authoritatianism) was about the visit Zaire
• Because the Pope was visiting the next day and he wanted to avoid unnecessary embarassment of living in sin and having the Pope zap him with powerful Papal rays - or something.
• Because the pope was visiting, and he wanted to legitimize his relationship in the eyes of the church.
• Cause it had been a while..........
• He believed that marrying your mistress after 318 days of infidelity guaranteed virility, immortality and mental fortitude.
• He got married the night before the Pope's visit to "legitimise" their relationship.
• He married Bobi Ladawa on the eve of a visit by Pope John Paul II, to legitimise the relationship in the eyes of the Church
• He needed to get back home in time for "The Bill"
• He thought if he did it quickly enough God wouldn't notice that they weren't married before. God's very busy with all the wedding invitations He gets and sometimes He has to send the Pope to cover for him.
• He was afraid she'd fall down a copper mine and drown.
• He was deeply disturbed by the mere thought of the WHITE man or the Man in White arriving and eloping with his beloved one.
• He was gonna die soon I guess
• he was sucking up to the pope
• his wife died and he had another mistress lined up
• Hurry! Hurry! The pope is coming! The pope is coming!! I must marry my concubine tonight! I assassinate my political rivals and enslave my people, but John Paul II mustn't think I fornicate!
• It was on the eve of a visit by Pope John Paul II. He was seeking to legitimise the relationship.
• Mobutu Sese Seko married Bobi Ladawa om May 1st 1980, the same day Pope John Paul II arrived. It could be conjectured that legitimizing his relationship was the reason for his marriage on this day.
• On May 1, 1980, he married his mistress, Bobi Ladawa, on the eve of a visit by Pope John Paul II, thus legitimizing his relationship in the eyes of the Church (thank you Wikipedia)
• On May 1, 1980, he married his mistress, Bobi Ladawa, on the eve of a visit by Pope John Paul II, thus legitimizing his relationship in the eyes of the Church. <how dull - i was hoping for something interesting>
• Pope John Paul II was visiting the next day, and Mobutu wanted the relationship with his mistress to be legitimate in the eyes of the church.
• Probably so he didn't have to marry Butch.
• Rohypnol only lasts so long.
• She was pregnant
• So he could take advantage of a two-for-one ticket promotion, on sale for only three days, to the Moscow Olympics.
• So that he could let Kelvin Templeton win the Brownlow medal in peace.
• The pope was coming and it was that, or make peace with Libya.
• The Pope was coming the next day and he wanted to legitimise his relationship with her, in the eyes of the Church. Bloody Catholics. Sheesh, if he'd waited another day the Pope could have done the ceremony.
• The pope was coming to town
• The pope was visiting
• Time was running out
• To coincide with a visit from the Pope.
• Well, sometimes when a man & a woman love each other very much, they are quite keen to get down & do a bit of horizontal barn dancing.
• Why waste time getting married when you've got millions of people to oppress?
• Worried about yet another coup attempt, he thought he should legitimise his relationship so she would come across more often in the immediate future as de Beers put it about that his enemies liked to relieve people of their "family jewels".

Q4 What happened to the 3 people, who had the dubious and very rare privilege of experiencing an event, now called the Second Defenestration of Prague?

Answer with Media They landed in the shit (dung filled moat) & survived. Dr Bob visited the site personally on his travels this month.

• 3 people were thrown of of a castle window. They did not die as they landed on a pile of rubbish.
• All three were thrown out of a window and into a manure pile (the late Stephen Jay Gould wrote an essay about it).
• At Prague Castle on May 23, 1618, an assembly of Protestants (led by Count Thurn) tried two Imperial governors, Wilhelm Grav Slavata (1572¬1652) and Jaroslav Borzita Graf Von Martinicz (1582¬1649), for violating the Letter of Majesty (Right of Freedom of Religion), found them guilty, and threw them, together with their scribe Philip Fabricius, out of the high windows of the Bohemian Chancellery. They landed on a large pile of manure and all survived unharmed. (thank you wikipedia)
• Damn! I know all about the first and third defenestrations but not a bloody thing about the second. Just wait until I meet up with Ms. O'Geny, my old history teacher, at the school's 40th reunion next month - give her a piece of my mind, I will.
• Er..Draught?
• Fell in a pile of horse shit? From a reasonable hight? And survived? Just a wild guess. It's late, I'm drunk. Hic!
• from [sigh!] Wikipedia:. In 1617, Roman Catholic officials ordered the cessation of construction of some Protestant chapels on land which the Catholic clergy claimed belonged to them. Protestants, who claimed that it was royal (not Catholic Church) land and thus available for their own use, interpreted this as a violation of the right of freedom of religious expression as granted in the Letter of Majesty issued by Emperor Rudolf II in 1609. They feared that the fiercely Catholic Ferdinand would revoke the Protestant rights altogether once he came to the throne.At Prague Castle on May 23, 1618, an assembly of Protestants (led by Count Thurn) tried two Imperial governors, Wilhelm Grav Slavata (1572¬1652) and Jaroslav Borzita Graf Von Martinicz (1582¬1649), for violating the Letter of Majesty (Right of Freedom of Religion), found them guilty, and threw them, together with their scribe Philip Fabricius, out of the high windows of the Bohemian Chancellery. They landed on a large pile of manure and all survived unharmed. Philip Fabricius was later ennobled by the emperor and granted the title "von Hohenfall" (lit. translating to "of Highfall").Roman Catholic Imperial officials claimed that the three men survived due to the mercy of the benevolent Churmusian angels assisting the righteousness of the Catholic cause. Protestant pamphleteers asserted that their survival had more to do with the horse excrement in which they landed than the benevolent acts of the angels of the Christo Churmusian order
• How could they fit Prague through a window even once is what I wish to know? And how did it survive to have it done a second time?
• In the 15th century three papa officials were chucked out a high window in Prague. They landed on a pile of manure - the chursh claimed they were saved by a Saint - it is probably the only truthful thing to come out of rome - their official saved by shit.
• Just some shit.
• landed on a pile of manure and all survived unharmed - very tame compared to how the roman catholics and protestants usually carried on
• oh dear
• The landed in a pile of horse manure and thus were saved from death.
• The landed in a pile of manure, have been turfed out of the high windows of the Bohemian Chancellery.
• There is some debate over what happened to Wilhelm Grav Slavata, Jaroslav Borzita Graf Von Martinicz and Philip Fabricius as they exited the high windows of the Bohemian Chancellery. Let me set the record straight. Despite rumours that they were rescued by angels, they in fact landed in a large pile of horse manure and survived unharmed. The origins of the pile of manure were diverse. My own opinion is that it was produced by the world's second biggest horse of that time, one 'Arold the 'Andsome, a gift from the people of Lower Wadling (Bucks). As to what happened to the 3 lucky sods, well... Wilhelm Grav Slavata ended up as the owner of the largest Night Soil collection agency in Prague. His descendants even today are involved in the industry. Jaroslav Borzita Graf Von Martinicz was a bit of a black sheep and ended up in the s**t several times before being drowned in suspicious circumstances in a vat of Guinness. On the other hand, Philip Fabricius was later enobled by the Emporer and refused to go anywhere near either end of a horse again.
• They all lived happily ever after, though it took a while to get rid of the smell. They were thrown out of a high windows of the Bohemian Chancellery. They landed on a large pile of manure and all survived unharmed.
• They all suffered lascerations from the double glazing. Then they all went on compo.
• They began to defenestrate heavily. for the second time,apparently.
• They didnt stop - and did go blind.
• They died a long time ago in a land far, far away?
• They dug a copper mine in the middle of the city of Prague. Unfortunately, it turned out there wasn't any copper in that particular spot.
• They fell out of a window
• They got chucked out a window and survived by landing in pile of poop. Their dry cleaner was not impressed.
• They got in the shit - actually a mixture of straw and horseshit and had the dubious pleasure of fenestral survival.
• They landed in a dung heap and survived.
• They landed in heaven-sent horse shit.
• They lost their noses
• They probably were beheaded knowing the Froggies.
• They survived the window chucking exeprience. Not unlike me in my fresher year at uni at the famous March toga party in 1987.
• They survived, either because the angels saved them or because they fell into a dung-heap.
• They survived, supposedly as a result of landing in horse manure.
• They threw out all their copies of Microsoft Windows and bought a Mac instead. They are now the only 3 Macintosh users in Prague.
• they were banned from the third defenastration of Prague and the fourth for good measure!
• They were chucked out of a window and landed on a pile manure and suvuved. The Catholic church claimed angels saved them!
• They were Defenestrated.
• they were thrown from a high window, landed on manure and survived
• They were thrown from a third story window but survived as they fell into a pile of manure
• They were thrown from a window
• They were thrown from a window (surviving after landing on a pile of manure)
• They were thrown out of an upper storey window of the Bohemian Chancellery and landed in a pile of horseshit and survived.
• They were thrown out of the high windows of the Bohemian Chancellery, but landed on a large pile of manure and survived unharmed.
• They were thrown out of the windows of the Bohemian Chencellery, landing unharmed on a large pile of manure.
• They were tossed out a window. I once knew a gent who was defenestrated and then immediately inverse-defenestrated. Nasty stuff. Lots of glass everywhere.
• Three people survived being thrown out of a window in 1618? how interesting...
• Way back in 1617, being dreadfully insulted / Some bohemian aristocracy effectively revolted. / They were partial to Matthias, but they didn't like Ferdinand, / Some Catholic dudes, who were mighty prudes, tried to kick them off the church land. / So the Protestants took the Catholics to the Bohemian Chancellery, / And tried them for being dreadful bores and violating the Letter of Majesty. / The charge wouldn't stick, so they had to think quick, and decided to find them guilty / So then they did what they had to do,They threw them out the window / The window, the window, the second story window / With luck they lit, on a pile of shit / When they threw them out the window. (Hope the formatting is preserved. [I'll do what I can])

Q5 What is the name of the highest-altitude village in Britain?

Answer Claims vary but Flash, Derbyshire (1518 ft) is up there.

• "Flash", in the Peak District of Derbyshire.
• Ah well that depends on all sorts of things. But I'm gunna say Flash 'cos it sounds cool.
• Auchlochan?
• Ben Dover
• britain? high altitude? Isnt that an oximoron?
• Brynmawr
• Buckminsterfullerenecestershire.
• Claiming to be the highest village in England at over 1500ft, Flash is 4 miles from Buxton in the Peak District.
• Flash, in Derbyshire.
• Flash.
• Glastonbury- it doesn't get any "higher" dude!
• Glen Nevis near Ben Nevis. Coincidentally we had Nevis brothers named Glan and Ben in my class going through school and they liked to get high.
• Gravy-upon-Mutton.
• I thought for a while it might be Upper Wadling (Bucks), but I think the answer is Wanlockhead at 1531 feet, just slightly higher than the village of Flash, in the Peak district at 1518 ft
• It's a village in Wales called Bollockstothatimnotgonnawalkupthere.
• Itsbludycolduphere - Or is that in Wales?
• La Plagne
• Looks like a tossup between England's Flash (1,500 ft) and Scotland's Wanlockhead (1,531 ft). Wheddon Cross and Allendale Town also claim the dubious privilege but surely there has to be something higher in Wales or Ireland or the Hebrides or some other godforsaken corner of the realm.
• Neverest?
• No one really knows...Those intrepid enough to seek the answer died from the lack of oxygen.
• Oxford--it's the snootyist, nose highest in the air place in the UK.
• Quarnford (Flash!)
• Quarnford is a village and civil parish in the Staffordshire Moorlands district of Staffordshire, England. The village is in the Peak District, roughly between Buxton and Leek. The village (as opposed to the parish) is known by the name "Flash" and is the highest village in Britain, being some 1518 ft above sea level. (Thank you wikipedia)
• Saas-Fee
• Saas-Fee bitch!!! oh I thought you said ATTITUDE!
• Several places in Britain claim that title. However, ski-resorts and a solitary 'pub' are not exactly village material. Tomintoul is widely accepted as the highest although a 'tourist' village named Wanlockhead is 13ft higher according a tourist guide updated this month.
• Tallcester
• That depends on which one is at the top of the magic far-away tree on any given day.
• the answers somewhere in this article - http://travel.independent.co.uk/uk/article64015.ece - i cant be bothered reading it. Flash probably.
• The village of Flash, in the Peak district.
• There's a lot of stuff on this. Who would have guessed but from what I can glean it is Wanlockhead in Scotland.
• There's land that's actually above sea level in Britain?
• Ummmm.. Ben Nevisville???
• Wait - I'm having a flash
• Wanlockhead
• Wanlockhead in Scotland
• Wanlockhead in Scotland which lies mainly above 467m or 1531 feet above sea level.
• Wanlockhead, Scotland seems to be the winner at 467 m
• Wanlockhead, Scotland, to you, sassenach.
• Wanlockhead, Scotland.
• Windy bottom

Q6 This is on a roundabout in Sweden - whatﾒs the story?

Answer Roundabout Dogs - tin models of dogs were placed on Swedish roundabouts by persons unknown and then removed by the authorities (the dogs, not the persons, although one wonders). The bone was for the dogs

• A small town called Linköping in Sweden had an artist called Stina Opitz (an anagram of At Zions Pit, but that's got nothing to do with it) make a concrete dog and they placed this on the roundabout. It was vandalised and the remains were removed. Then someone put a concrete bone on the roundabout in place of the dog. This started a craze and more roundabout dogs stated appearing throughout Sweden.See the picture at:http://archive.corren.se/_internal/cimg!0/lqvbcsm82fnsat
• A story? You want me to do a story on a boned roundabout? It was a dog now it's a bone. Dog, bone, boring story. Hey in Sweden they might get all excited about this stuff but I'm on the moon at the moment. It's too cold where I live so I came to the moon to get a bit of sun. Is Sweden a nice warm place? Maybe I could go there?
• A Volvo V50 T5 Wagon went so fast around the stunt loop (in the background) that the passenger's skin sloughed off and their bodies subsequently flew apart due to centrifugal force. The white bone is the femur of the driver.
• All I know is its a fuggin big dog. Bet they use the barkers eggs as a roundabout.
• Another intelligently designed dinosaur bone
• Based on the pretty nifty looking rollercoaster in the background, I would guess some little fatty lied about his height & slipped out of the harness - Not much left of him after the flesh-eating ants got to him...
• Centrifugal forces, open car windows and loose coffin lids don't mix.
• christians used this picture to prove the story of Genesis - hey, it makes as much sense as the stuff they usually come up with
• Eddie Maguire boned the local Mayor
• Eddie Maguire leaving a message for Jessica Rowe?
• Erected by local tv station Kanal Nio, it reminds Swedish television presenters of the fate that can befall them if they cross the local incarnation of Eddie McGuire.
• I don't want to tell you.
• In Linkoping, the government commissioned an art work by artist Stina Opitz, of a concrete dog.It was soon vandalised, and the remains were removed. Later on, somebody put a concrete bone on the roundabout where the dog had been - maybe to lure the dog back?
• In the small town of Linköping, the local government commissioned an artwork by artist Stina Opitz. A large raised steel circle was erected on its edge in a roundabout, to frame a concrete dog, which was put in place on the 26 February, 2006.In May the same year, it was vandalised, and the remains were removed. There was talk about replacing the concrete dog with a bronze replica, but so far, that has not come true. In September, somebody put a concrete bone in the roundabout where the dog had been. Perhaps to lure the dog back? The artist was amused, but had not put the bone there herself. Soon after, a white wooden dog had come to watch over the bone and the traffic.
• In the Village of Linköping a commissioned sculpture of a dog was stolen. Later, the concrete bone was placed by an unknown party for uncertain reasons; perhaps to "lure" the dog back.
• It belongs to Dougal from the Magic Roundabout, he left it there when he went skiing once in the early 70's. Guess he hasn't come back for it yet. It explains why it looks old too. But really, this is a great story. I won't go into it but this is the link. It's truly interesting and hilarious. Will you post it Dr Bob? http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/pda/A17616558?s_id=2Who ever thought the Swedes were so bloody funny?
• it must be for one of their concrete/wooden roundabout dogs
• It replaces a statue of a dog. It is in Linköping. A number of dog statues appeared at roundabouts around Sweden. This one went missing and a concrete bone was erected instead.
• It's a big boner.
• It's a concrete sculpture of a bone to try and lure back the "Roundabout Dog" sculpture which had previously been vandalised and removed.
• It's a fossilised thigh bone from a mature male Volvosaurus.
• It's a home made street installation which occured as a phenomenen all around Sweden in 2006.
• It's a roundabout bone for a roundabout dog.
• Its there in protest of the destruction of a concrete dog
• Large dog?
• Oh where, oh where has my round'bout dog gone?Oh where, oh where can he be?With his ears cut off and his side pained o'er.Oh where, oh where can he be?
• On the 26 February, 2006 the Swedish town of Linköping commissioned an artwork by artist Stina Opitz. This statue, a concrete dog, was placed in the center of a roundabout. It was subsequently vandalised and removed, and a concrete bone mysteriously appeared- apparently to lure the dog back.Interestingly, it appears this incident began a "guerilla art" trend in Sweden of placing home-made dogs (of wood, plastic, etc) in roundabouts.
• Once upon a time there was a swedish dog called Sven who was given a large cow to eat to keep him occupied on the long road trip to Norway. His beautiful blonde owner, who was also a hula hoop instructor, and Walt Disney movie addict had recently been involved in a wierd web based quiz and suggested to Sven something be done about the cow's leg. A hasty roundabout defenestration was called for, picture taken (managed to get a bit of the hoop in) and forwarded to the good Docktor as a possible question. They all lived happily ever after.
• Once upon a time, in a country a long a way, there lived a giant bone. A dog ate it. The end.
• Originally scuptors created scultures of concrete dogs but they were often vandalised or removed. Some prankster replaced the dog with a concrete bone
• Put there to replace a stolen sculpture of a dog.
• Some desperate metaphorical attempt by the Swedish government to show the Overseas Mighty George, their oilfields are bone-dry, the very same preventing the oncoming military invasion upon their country.
• Some one stole a statue of a dog and replaced it with a bone (apperently there has been lots of this happening)
• That,Dr Bob, would appear to be a bone. Thats whats left behind when the soft tissues are removed by a dog.
• The Bäskervillehunden dropped in for en visit. Han really disrupted den traffic on den roundabout, though!
• The concrete bone anonymously placed there after the large dog statue was removed following vandalism. (Well, if nothing is gained, this quiz is causing pages cached at google to increase and the result placing is higher.)
• The next roundabout just up the road has the 'hip' bone. And the hip bones connected to.........
• The Roundabout Dogs of Sweden - Linköping roundaboutsee: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A17616558Dog taken - bone put back in place, yada yada yada...
• The roundabout dogs started appearing in Linköping, Östergötland (and were therefore originally called de östgötska rondellhundarna), after the official roundabout installation Cirkulation II by sculptor Stina Opitz had been vandalised and later removed. The original installation was a dog made of concrete, and Stina Opitz was to make a new version of it after the vandalisation, when suddenly someone had placed a homemade wooden dog in the same roundabout. Soon the dog was given a concrete bone by another anonymous artist. This is a picture of that bone.
• There is no story. It's art innit?
• There is no story. There's not even a bone. Or a roundabout. We're being set up.
• There was a dog made out of concrete made by an artist for a roundabout on the outskirts of Linköping, Sweden. It got smashed by vandals. So someone created a replacement out of wood. Then the wooden dog soon had to have a bone (pictured). Then other roundabouts started having dog sculpures made - and its out of hand. There are bloody wooden dogs everywhere.
• There's a white bone shaped object lying on the ground.
• They obviously feed their dogs too well and the buggers can't even be bothered "burying the bone"!
• this is a concrete bone said to perhaps lure the concrete dog that was vandalised back to his home in the metal circle.
• This was placed by an unknown Swedish wag to attract back the vandalised concrete dog that had formerly graced the site.
• Who de bo de bo de bo bo bo bo bo.(Swedish chef off The Muppets explaining).

Comments:

• 56192 (oh wait, that's for the next box!)
• A more eclectic range of questions, Dr Bob, but still a couple of Catholic leftovers from May.
• Bugger, I wanted you to leave May answers till further along in the month, the wait is interminable otherwise. At least waiting for the answers when they are late takes up half the month. Um, why were these relatively easy? [Because I am losing it in my old age] Makes me nervous it does. [Makes YOU nervous?]
• Google does make life easier
• Gotta love Wikipedia. I preferred it when we could just make up the answers.
• Hi Uncle Bob....
• hope you like my answers, from a first timer
• Hopefully most of your correspondents won't realise that Scotland is in Britain and go for Flash instead...
• I don't know if it's my age, my constitution, boredom or quiz content; but the humour quotient seems to be slipping.
• I have no idea what the purpose of this is but i'm dying to find out...
• I'm a lawyer, my husband's a bank manager. I challenge any of you out there to be a more socially unacceptable couple to invite to a dinner party.
• It turns out that I am freezing my tits off on the moon. It's even colder than Victoria. How can that be? Anyway I'm coming back.
• Ken Ham's Answers In Genesis museum, sad to say, opened over USA Memorial Day weekend (May 28) in Boone County, Kentucky, and had three thousand visitors, including counter-demonstrators whose pictures and quotes K.H. will use to get contributions.
• Much more enjoyable than all of those religious questions last month Doc!
• Nothing on Iceland this month other than a tenuous link with Sweden. Disappointing, Dr Bob...
• On a more serious note, though. They've discovered somewhere around 240 planets outside the Solar System. The most recent find is the 581c, the first known 'rock' placed within the Goldilock. It took ten years or so, from tracking down the first of our neighbours by Prof. Wolszczan to a breathtaking hundreds as of now. Nothing could equal the exponential 'climaxically-oriented' scientific route we've taken as humanity. What's out there, round the corner? :):):) Long Live Darwin. :) And...Monty Python. :)
• Pleased to see you leaving all Religions alone this month Dr Bob. Too much angst generated there for me.
• Thanks for the diversion I found in researching these answers! I'm new to the site, but very impressed. Expect my subscription!
• The people who reckon the recent NSW storms are due to global warming should be deprived of their aussie citizenship. They did not pass the australian values test. They obviously haven't heard the traditional song "when the rain tumbles down in july". Teh zoonk!
• This is the first time I have been on this website. I have heard of the website before, but only decided to visit after reading "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins.
• Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted. ~John Lennon
• Too easy to Google...
• Tortuous and gratuitously thanking you for your continued support, Dr Bob. Never have such benefits been reaped by the flagrant abuse of the Austrian corporal's nomenclature.
• Used a combination of wiki and google today. seems to do the trick. [Yes it bloody well does (do the trick). A thousand curses! It is getting more and more difficult to set questions that do not show up in Wikipedia. I reckon Wikipedia is the best thing since Google, which in turn was the best thing since sliced bread.]
• Well, that was pointless. I only knew about the origins of the statue itself. So my knowledge of useless information has increased insignificantly. However, this site's placement in google searches is always improving through this quiz.
• Were you ever a boy scout? [No]
• When Pope John Paul II visited Iceland in 1989. I just thought I'd answer #3 for next month ahead of time.
• You must be mellowing with age Dr. Bob! I could actually answer all the questions for once.
• you should do a kids one cuse iam a kid and coulndt answer any
• You Victorians should get some goddamn barriers installed at yer railway level crossings. First a teeny-weeny UFO (yer article, remember?), now a crazy truck causing a horrific accident - and both at yer railway crossings. What next? A U.S. navy warship?