Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "The Bent Spoon Award is an award given by Australian Skeptics, "presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle". In a tongue-in-cheek fashion, Australian Skeptics described the construction of the trophy as a piece of gopher wood supposedly from the Noah’s Ark, upon which affixed a spoon that was rumoured to have been used at the Last Supper. The spoon was bent by energies unknown to science and was gold plated by an Atlantean process. Although awarded yearly since 1982, only one copy of the trophy exists, as "anyone wishing to acquire the trophy must remove it from our keeping by paranormal means" and no winner has yet overcome this obstacle.The winner should either be an Australian or have carried out their activities in Australia.The New Zealand Skeptics have a similar Bent Spoon Award."@en }
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- Bent_Spoon_Award abstract "The Bent Spoon Award is an award given by Australian Skeptics, "presented to the perpetrator of the most preposterous piece of paranormal or pseudoscientific piffle". In a tongue-in-cheek fashion, Australian Skeptics described the construction of the trophy as a piece of gopher wood supposedly from the Noah’s Ark, upon which affixed a spoon that was rumoured to have been used at the Last Supper. The spoon was bent by energies unknown to science and was gold plated by an Atlantean process. Although awarded yearly since 1982, only one copy of the trophy exists, as "anyone wishing to acquire the trophy must remove it from our keeping by paranormal means" and no winner has yet overcome this obstacle.The winner should either be an Australian or have carried out their activities in Australia.The New Zealand Skeptics have a similar Bent Spoon Award.".