What, apart from champagne, is overrated?
Its spouse: caviar.
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
• Kale shakes with protein powder.
Trish Thalman, Gland, Switzerland
• Cleaning. If we and our surroundings were all a bit grubbier, we’d be bacteriologically healthier and the world would be saved the vast pollution from cleaning agents, their manufacturing, packaging, transport and disposal, plus the power consumed in their production and use. (Exclusion: surgical theatres.)
Martin London, Christchurch, New Zealand
• As time goes by, more and more things.
Lawrie Bradly, Surrey Hills, Victoria, Australia
• The trickle-down effect.
Margaret Wyeth, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
• Likes.
David Tucker, Halle, Germany
• Taking selfies.
Ursula Nixon, Bodalla, NSW, Australia
• Most women’s beauty products, which promise to transform your appearance but leave you with nothing but an empty pocket.
Margaret Wilkes, Perth, Western Australia
• TV.
Noel Bird, Boreen Point, Queensland, Australia
• Pretentious wines generally, especially those touted by a so-called expert.
Charlie Bamforth, Davis, California, US
• One-day cricket.
Nigel Grinter, Chicago, Illinois, US
• Death. Nobody, literally, has come back with a positive review.
Gai Wright, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
The barn door, but too late
Is there actually closure in anything?
Doors, windows and life itself.
John Benseman, Auckland, New Zealand
• Surgical operations.
David Isaacs, Sydney, Australia
• Yes, on everything from A (automatic doors) to Z (zippers).
Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Toronto, Canada
• Yes, the barn door. Unfortunately, it’s often after the horse has decided to go for a walk-about.
Terence Rowell, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
• If I can get somebody to sit on my suitcase I can manage to get closure.
Adrian Cooper, Queens Park, NSW, Australia
• In about 2.8bn years from now, all life on earth will expire. That seems pretty final to me.
Stuart Williams, Kampala, Uganda
• Indeed there is: if you’re ever completely down and out, all you’ll have is the closure wearing.
Jim Dewar, Gosford, NSW, Australia
Is it a whale or a kangaroo?
What trivial behaviour do you enjoy the most?
Lying on my back in the grass watching clouds drift overhead and trying to see the animals within.
Doreen Forney, Pownal, Vermont, US
The patent is still pending
If necessity is the mother of invention, who is the father?
The middleman between the inventor and the advertiser.
Richard Orlando, Westmount, Quebec, Canada
• JS Bach, although his inventions came in two or three parts.
Anthony Walter, Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
• Persistence is the father.
Patrick Mages, Little Rock, Arkansas, US
• Pat Pending.
Bruce Inksetter, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
• Want is the father.
David Turner, Bellevue Heights, South Australia
Any answers?
In 1956 Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers asked Why Do Fools Fall in Love? Any new ideas?
Terence Rowell, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada
What if God was one of us?
R De Braganza, Kilifi, Kenya
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