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Today sees the passing of another rock legend, Ronnie James Dio, at the age of 67.

With a career spanning over 50 years, including several stints as the lead singer for Black Sabbath after the departure of Ozzy Osbourne in 1979, he was a key part of the success of their famous Heaven and Hell album. He returned to Black Sabbath in 1991 and again in 2006, as well as forging his own successful solo career with his own bands – The Vegas Kings, Ronnie & The Ramblers, Ronnie and the Red Caps, Ronnie Dio and the Prophets, The Electric Elves, The Elves, Dio and Rainbow. In 2006, he became part of Heaven and Hell along with former Black Sabbath alumni, Tommy Iommi, Geezer Butler and Vinny Appice.

Ronnie’s wife Wendy posted the following statement on his official website:

Today my heart is broken, Ronnie passed away at 7:45am 16th May. Many, many friends and family were able to say their private good-byes before he peacefully passed away. Ronnie knew how much he was loved by all. We so appreciate the love and support that you have all given us. Please give us a few days of privacy to deal with this terrible loss. Please know he loved you all and his music will live on forever.

- Wendy Dio

I’m sure that many of you, like myself, remember the late 80′s and early 90′s with Black Sabbath all over the radio. What is your favourite memory of Ronnie James Dio? Were you ever fortunate enough to experience one of his concerts?

• What is your favourite song performed by Ronnie James Dio?

Answer via the question above or leave a comment below!

Kate
Community Manager

Today, we are introducing a brand-new quiz that will test your community guidelines knowledge! Do you know the difference between chatting and point gaming? Have you committed a violation without understanding what you did wrong? Test your understanding: it’s fun, and if you pass, you will earn 20 points!

Why are Community Guidelines important?
Our site continues to grow at an incredible speed and we have thousands of new people signing up every week. To keep our Answers community a fun and informative place it is important to understand our community guidelines.

What improves our site’s content is understanding how to ask questions and how to write a great answer. Like any other community, members must follow a set of principles in order to keep our site a safe, fun and positive. As members of our community, we want you to understand the following:

Test your knowledge!
We encourage new members of the community to read the Community Guidelines so that our community can continue to be a helpful place for you. By following the above points, our site will continue to be a place where members can find answers to questions that you were always curious about.

Take the community guidelines quiz to test your knowledge, earn points and let us know what you think!

When was the last thing you thought about the tyres on your car? Is is something you only think about come registration time or something you worry about a lot?

Michelin, one of the top names in tyre manufacturing, are currently asking some questions in our Cars & Transportation category:

• Is saving money on fuel costs your biggest concern when buying a set of new tyres and why?
• Do you find that the type of Tyre you use changes your driving experience and why?

What are your thoughts? Answer via the questions above or leave a comment below!

Kate
Community Manager
Community Manager

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This week Yahoo! Answers reached an important milestone – we received our 1 billionth answer!

From the small beginnings when we received our first answer from the public back in December 2005 we have now become the largest and most popular global Q&A site on the internet, available in 9 languages across 21 countries.

The volume of contributions we receive from the Answers community on a daily basis is mindboggling. Yahoo! Answers currently receives:

823,966 questions and answers per day…
that works out to 34,331 per hour or 572 per minute
which is 10 questions and answers posted EVERY second!

The first answer on Answers

It’s difficult to pinpoint the first answer to the first question once Answers was opened to the public, but one of the first-ever answers came to this question – “Why are yawns contagious?”

This was one of many questions you’ve always wanted to know the answer to, but didn’t know how to find – until Yahoo! Answers came along.

The most answered questions of all time…

Through the years, we have had numerous celebrities and leading political figures appear on Yahoo! Answers.  Their questions have proven to be overwhelmingly popular with the community due to the large numbers of answers received.

Here’s a rundown of some of the biggest:

• The most popular question ever was from Hillary Clinton who received over 38,000 answers to her question: “Based on your own family’s experience, what do you think we should do to improve health care in America?”.
• This is closely followed by Oprah Winfrey’s question with over 37,000 responses.
• During the 2008 US election campaign, Barack Obama sought the wisdom of the Answers community to ask “how can we engage more people in the democratic process?”.  He received nearly 18,000 answers.
• As part of the ONE campaign to Make Poverty History, Bono took the time to select David C’s response as the best answer to his question, “What can we do to make poverty history?”, from the 29,458 received.

The quirkiest questions of all time…

The following are some of the interesting and original questions that our Answers community has asked:

• What are the differences between Tim Tams and Gaiety?
• What did the green and gold on the previous Australian Olympic uniforms represent?
• What does a bunyip look like?

Drum roll…

The honour of providing the 1 BILLIONTH answer on Yahoo! Answers goes to cgramer2 for his excellent response to this question: What laptop part can I replace to speed up my pc?

Thank you cgramer2 and THANK YOU to you – the Answers Community.  It is all of you, whom have made this site such a phenomenal place where information can be exchanged and opinions heard.  Thanks to our amazing community for making this milestone happen!

So, if you ever have a question?  Yahoo!7 has an answer… over one billion of them!