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Who actually selects the Question of the Day. A person or a committee?
Usually, it's a person (Deke). All the submitted questions go to his email inbox. He sifts through them and selects the ones that meet the criteria (unwritten, but established over many many years) for answers.
Sometimes, however, it becomes a committee of two, when for example, a good question comes in that requires expert evaluation. Those generally go to Anthony, but on occasion to Jean Scott, Bob Dancer, Arnold Snyder (when he was alive), Andrew Uyal, Mike Shackleford, Blair Rodman, Houston Curtis, Chris Andrews, Colin Jones, Joe Dorsey, Karen Lesley, Richard Schuetz, Nelson Rose, Jeff at VintageVegas, various casino PR departments and unnamed executives, and others of our acquaintance.
Very rarely, it takes a committee of more than two, when Deke, Anthony, and a third or fourth contributor weigh the merits of an answer. Those discussions are always lively and enlightening, as evidenced in excellent Questions of the Day.
We visited the Mob Museum on our last visit. We saw that the museum is housed in the courthouse where the Kefauver hearings were held. I didn't think I was interested in that, so I didn't read about it while we were there. But later I began wondering about them. Who was Kefauver, what were the hearings about, and why were they a big deal?