That's a Good Question, 6

Janet Arnett is the former campus manager of adult education at Ontario’s Georgian College. She is the author of Antiques and Collectibles: Starting Small, The Grange at Knock, and 673 Ways to Save Money.

Kids may have captured the reputation for asking intriguing questions
but they by no means monopolize the practice. Adult listeners to CBC
Radio also ask enough offbeat questions to fill several books.

This latest volume—number 6—consists of responses to 99 questions
addressed to CBC morning shows across the country, plus an index for all
six books in the series. The quality of the questions seems a little
strained: When does a spider web become a cobweb? Who designed the
dartboard? How many stooges were in the Three Stooges? Who invented
cribbage? Who cares?

Unlike some of the questions in the earlier books (e.g., What is a
grape nut?), these questions do not have that
I’ve-always-wondered-about-that quality. Some are too easy (What is
the nog in eggnog?); some are too much like history lessons (What was
the first English law to be written?); and others are of little interest
to anyone (Who invented the computer mouse?). This is not to say,
however, the book lacks appeal. Hard-core trivia collectors will want to
know how the town of Aneroid got its name and where gerbils came from.
But would you call a radio station to ask how sugar cubes are made?

For those with nothing else to read in the john, it has merits.