Brain Teaser's / Riddels. Number 26

1] Professor Windbag likes to use big words and say everything in the most complicated way. When he gave his wife her birthday present he said: "My dear, here is a diminutive, aurum, truncated cone, convex on it's summit and semi-perforated with symmetrical indentations and a hollow interior." Can you guess what her present was?     Pick the tomato, get the answer!

2] You've been waiting for a bus when a group of them arrive together. The first bus was too crowded, so you took the last one. There was one bus ahead of another bus, one bus behind another bus, one bus behind two buses, and one bus with two ahead of it. What is the smallest number of buses there could have been in that group?    

1] A gold thimble

2] The smallest number is 3