MINERAL. At least partly MINERAL, but might be partly VEGETABLE.
Is it found in the average home? No
Is it often seen on a road-side? No
Is it manufactured? Yes
Could I use it to shelter from the rain? Yes
Is it colourful? No
Is it movable? With difficulty, even if it isn't screwed down.
Is it bigger than an averaged sized car? No
is it an umbrella? No. (You could use it to shelter from the rain, but that's not its purpose.)
Is there more than one of these? Yes
Could it be a form of transport? Er...no. (Audience goes "oooooooooh".)
Is it some form of structure? Yes
Does it have moving parts (even when screwed down)? No
Is it something that would normally be screwed down? Well, fixed in some way, yes.
Does it use electricity? Yes
A tent? No.
Is it a telephone box? Audience - wild cheers Oooh, sort of.

[rab] I think rab gets the prize. It is a police box.

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Audience cheers, claps, and goes wild for rab.

Predictable, I know, but this one's ABSTRACT.

... as opposed to 'created'.
Well done rab. I've always wondered what a police box was - and now I am none the wiser :-)

So if police boxes are not often seen on road sides, where are they often seen then?

[Boolbar] They aren't, these days.

[Chalky] Yes.
[Boolbar] No.
[Raak] No.

The only place I've ever seen police boxes is in Edinburgh. Some are now used as police 'info boxes' (with a computer touch screen thinghy), others have been converted to coffee-vending booths.

[Chalky] It can be.
[Boolbar] Yes.
[Raak] *an audience member nods sagely*... but no.

Like the orbit of Jupiter, the age of the universe, the constellation Orion, etc.

[Raak] No.
[Inkspot] I would say so.
[Breadmaster] Yes.

[Dazed5] No.
[Boolbar] Nnnyieahh... Possibly, although I probably wouldn't follow this avenue of thought just now.

[Chalky] Oh yes.
[Inkspot] No.

[Boolbar] We can see it, but it's not something that occurs.

[Inkspot] No.
[Boolbar] Yes. *Audience begins whispering excitedly*

I have a feeling Boolbar really wants to get this one...

[rab] I'm just bored . . . .

[Breadmaster, Raak] No.
[Lib] Um. I could get all philosophical and ask how would we tell... All I can say is that it just 'is'...
[Boolbar] No.

Not the guitar plucking popular beat combo.

[Boolbar, Chalky] No.

I'd like to offer a hint without giving the game away, but I'm finding that difficult so I shall say for now that the the last three guesses are quite cold.

[Breadmaster] Warmer.