I would have voted to close it if I had not run out of my close-votes.
As you mentioned, the question is general reference and it can never qualify as a legitimate and on-topic question for English Language and Usage. If it were asked today, it would take less than an hour to close it as general reference.
The viewer number has nothing to do with the quality of a question. As you have noticed, a popular single-word-request question can generate a couple of thousand views in one day while a serious and well-researched question does 30 to 50 views per day.
We need to close all those general reference questions that were asked when the community didn't have firm rules and guidelines. The question could be used as an excuse for current and future users to post a similar off-topic and general reference question as it was not closed properly.
We should select all those general reference questions that were asked from the beginning up to one or two years and close all of them and delete them if they are deemed worthless. I would vote to delete the question as it is closed now.
Edit: I believe it is high time that we did the clean-up exercise of this community by selecting all those worthless questions that are off-topic and figured out how to deal with them.