Looking back on Gauss and Gaussian legends: answers to the quiz from 37(4) (Q517914)

The contribution under review presents the answers to eight questions published by the author [``An \textit{Intelligencer} quiz on Gauss and Gaussian legends'', ibid. 37, No. 4, 45--47 (2015; Zbl 1377.01014)]. Some of the questions were initiated by \textit{D. Kehlmann}'s [Measuring the World. New York, NY: Pantheon Books (2006)]. The first question concerns Gauss and Kant whose meeting never took place (Kant died in 1804). The next question is about Gauss as a schoolboy summing up the numbers from 1 to 100; the third and the fourth questions concern the relationship between Gauss and Niels Henrik Abel. The fifth question is about transmitting messages by means of the electromagnetic telegraph. Of course the triangle Brocken in the Harz, Hoher Hagen near Dransfeld south of Göttingen and Inselsberg in the Thuringian Forest and its doubtful interpretation by means of non-Euclidean geometry is not missing. The last query is focused on the Old Gauss Tower on Hoher Hagen which collapsed in 1963. The author gives detailed and competent answers.