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I probably haven't read this exact collection, but for the concept, questions he digs out from the bottom of the pile and, generally, mock-outraged, educated pub talk, all the stars in the bowl.
While a lot of the information is quite dated now, even 15-20 years later, this is a fun book to read. Cecil Adams (a.k.a. editor Ed Ziotti) was one of the first popular columnists to answer the important questions that everyone asks, and some that only those denizens of Baltimore have the temerity ...
The first volume of Adam's collected columns covering random stuff in an amusing way.
More of Cecil Adam's witty answers to odd questions.
I love this kind of thing. Before there was the internet, there was an amusing section of books that served to answer one's random questions. Before that, I read outdated Encyclopedia Britannicas, which were not nearly as entertaining or as amusing.