If only we could swarm answers folks to www.mediavolunteer.org. (Answer for a cause not for peanuts) Mediavolunteer is distributed research for a reason.
Link: Official Google Blog: Adieu to Google Answers.
The people who participated in Google Answers -- more than 800 of them over the years -- are a passionate group committed to helping people find the information they need, and we applaud them for sharing their incredible knowledge with everyone who wrote in.