NEW YORK — In the week before Christmas, we opened up the Explainer mailbag and dumped the dregs into a bucket of the sordid, silly questions sent in by our readers — all the ones the Explainer was unwilling or unable to answer in 2012. These included puzzlers such as “Has anyone ever actually used a falling chandelier to take someone out?”
In accordance with tradition, we invited you to pick the one that’s most deserving of an answer. More than 66,000 readers registered their choice, and the winner is addressed below. But first, the runners-up:
