# GQ forum should be called "GQ with factual answers" **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 4, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-forum-should-be-called-gq-with-factual-answers/179666 "2003-06-04T18:51:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-forum-should-be-called-gq-with-factual-answers/179666/41 "2003-06-09T16:09:53Z")
Okay, in that case, how do you know that one exists, if you don’t know what it is? ---
**Author:** ![Jabba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5e925/32.png) [@Jabba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jabba)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-forum-should-be-called-gq-with-factual-answers/179666/42 "2003-06-09T16:15:25Z")
He has found a non-constructive existence proof. No doubt a truly miraculous one, which unfortunately is too big to fit in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Gorgon\_Heap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f475e1/32.png) [@Gorgon\_Heap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gorgon_Heap)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-forum-should-be-called-gq-with-factual-answers/179666/43 "2003-06-09T16:27:40Z")
Well I see they made the change. I like it. It was a good concession without actually changing anything. And it makes sense. I’m just worried **Q.E.D.'s** head is going to start inflating like his post count. ---
**Author:** ![Achernar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e274bd/32.png) [@Achernar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Achernar)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2003, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-forum-should-be-called-gq-with-factual-answers/179666/44 "2003-06-09T16:32:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jabba \* > He has found a non-constructive existence proof. No doubt a truly miraculous one, which unfortunately is too big to fit in this thread. …in the span of 26 minutes? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-forum-should-be-called-gq-with-factual-answers/179666/45 "2003-06-10T04:41:15Z")
Speaking as a wordsmith, I vote against “Factual Questions.” I prefer the OP’s original title, “GQ with Factual Answers,” because the phrase “Factual Questions” is somewhat…contra-factual, shall we say. A \*question \*can’t be _factual_. It is a question. The \*answer \*can be factual. My suggestion, as a professional wordsmith, for an alternate name for GQ? It’s… …ummmm… …can I get back to you on that? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![kabbes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e99b99/32.png) [@kabbes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kabbes)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-forum-should-be-called-gq-with-factual-answers/179666/46 "2003-06-10T14:47:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Achernar \* > \*\*…in the span of 26 minutes? 😉 \*\* Yes. ---
**Author:** ![ragerdude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d07c76/32.png) [@ragerdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ragerdude)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2003, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-forum-should-be-called-gq-with-factual-answers/179666/47 "2003-06-13T21:27:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by commasense \* > \*\*A \*question \*can’t be _factual_. It is a question. The \*answer \*can be factual. > \*\* But that’s exactly what “factual questions” means. Just like in “computer questions”: Neither the question nor the answer is a _computer._ Rather, they are questions relating to computers, and everyone seems to understand it that way. A “factual questions” is a question pertaining to matters of fact, rather than, say, matters of opinion. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-forum-should-be-called-gq-with-factual-answers/179666/48 "2003-06-14T12:37:10Z")
\<\< A “factual questions” is a question pertaining to matters of fact, rather than, say, matters of opinion.\>\> …which would be an opinonated question? Similarly with a trivia question, a moral question, an ethical question, a legal question, a subordinate-clause question, an existential question, etc. Hence, an inquiry about knights searching for the Holy Grail would be a quest question. ---
**Author:** ![Ponder\_Stibbons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponder_stibbons/32/343_2.png) [@Ponder\_Stibbons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponder_Stibbons)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2003, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-forum-should-be-called-gq-with-factual-answers/179666/49 "2003-06-14T13:20:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by moriah \* > \*_How about calling GQ **Empirical Positivistic Questions[sup][/sup]**_? That should clear things up. > > [sup]\*[/sup]Refer all question about what is empirical positivism to EPQ. \*\* This one is my favorite so far. “Factual Questions” indeed! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gq-forum-should-be-called-gq-with-factual-answers/179666.md?page=2)