UW-Madison is a higher education haven for inquiring minds who may wonder about anything from how many calories one burns walking up Bascom Hill, the date of Parent’s Weekend next fall or why Bucky Badger has so much sex appeal.

The UW-Madison Visitor and Information Program answers all of these questions and more at vip.wisc.edu/ask-bucky.html, and the e-mail service—which fields questions from the lighthearted to the hard-hitting—celebrated its 10th anniversary Tuesday in Bascom Hall.

E-mail services coordinator for the Visitor program and UW-Madison junior Nick Miller said the Ask Bucky service expands the walk-in and telephone services offered at the Red Gym.

“Anyone can use the Ask Bucky services to ask about university-related questions, Madison and Dane county questions and Wisconsin questions,” he said.

Miller said the Ask Bucky program tends to avoid trivia questions that are unrelated to the university or the state of Wisconsin, noting the Ask Bucky service is not a service that will help with homework.

Ask Bucky will usually respond to each e-mail within a day; however, questions that require research take a little longer, Miller said.

And, in case any inquiring minds out there are still wondering why Bucky is such a chick magnet: “School spirit and lots of push-ups,” Miller said.