How to "featurize" customizations to Answers module (or a content type that is part of a module)
For the customized views, I cloned and disabled the original views. Then I was able to pull the view (cloned one) into the feature. 

For the content type customizations, I was able to pull in the new fields I created, and customizations to the other fields, by finding the names of the specific customized fields in field bases and strongarm in features.