As you may know, Marilyn Vos Savant supposedly has one of the highest, if not the highest, IQs in the world. She writes a regular column called, Ask Marilyn. In September 1998 she published a list of questions readers had asked her that, in her words, "I love too much to answer"

Here are the questions:

Is there an implied time limit on fortune cookie predictions? If so, how long is it?

Nature shows on television say that when two bull moose compete for a lady moose, the one with the smaller antlers concedes to the other one. I can see how a moose can tell the size of his opponent's antlers, but how does he know how big his own are?

How did people trim their toenails before the invention of tools with sharp metal edges?

Must one always begin at the beginning? Much time could be saved if we could begin at the end.

I like to watch major league baseball and I'm wondering if you could calculate something. Over the past 70 years of the existence of Yankee Stadium, how deep would the spit be if none had ever evaporated or been absorbed into the soil?

How can any deodorant have a scent of its own? Why doesn't it wipe itself out?

Could we stop a hurricane on the East Coast if everyone on the coast turned a fan outside that was pointed east?

Is it true that there is not one single square inch of dirt anywhere on the face of this planet that has not, at one time or another, passed through earthworm?

Has all this evolution been worth it?

I want to start eating wood again, but my appendix was taken out a few years ago. What can I do?

If you're a man and have a sex-change operation, will your car insurance rates go down?

I find it curious that there are many individuals whose surname is Brown, Green, White, Black, Gray or Gold, but there are virtually none whose surname is Red, Yellow, Orange, Purple or Pink. Is there a logical reason for this?

And the Topper:

I am 37 and have been washing my own clothes since I was 10. When I throw my underpants into the machine, they come back inside out. But if I put them in inside out, they still come back inside out. Can you explain this?