Question of the Day - 02 October 2021

We doubt this question was intended as such, but we're flattered anyway that you'd wonder whether preparing Question of the Day constitutes a full-time job. 

The answer, however, is no. QoD requires much fewer than 40 hours a week. After all these years (17 and counting), we have the whole system pretty much down to a science.

Sharing the responsibilities among the staff, soliciting assistance from a long list of sources and experts, and handing off questions to contributors all streamline the process. And though it might appear that QoD fills up an entire working day, there's plenty of time left over to attend to the rest of the website, book editing and production, marketing, affiliate deals, coupons, IT, operations, the LVA newsletter at the end of the month, and the endless business minutiae of running a small publishing company. 

As for a single bell-ringing question, that's a tough call.

Your question itself is representative of one type we like, allowing us to give an inside look at the way we do things. Another comprises questions that come from LasVegasAdvisor.com and Huntington Press content -- a current or previous QoD, a Vegas News item, something from the newsletter or a book or even a QoD. Of course, we like history questions, which are fun to research, and obscure gambling questions, in which we too learn something from our experts. 

But probably our favorites are those that ask, in various ways, for us to be more creative than usual.

The one that comes to mind is a question we answered a long time ago, asking us to characterize the anthropomorphic life cycle of the city. "How old would Las Vegas be now in human years? What was Vegas like at two years old, as an adolescent, young adult, middle-aged?" Since it was submitted and answered 15 years ago (2006) and we remember it fondly to this day, if we had to pick one, that would be it.