# If you could have one question answered completely truthfully... **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 15, 2009, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527 "2009-03-15T15:50:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/61 "2009-03-18T15:43:13Z")
How is babby formed? ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/62 "2009-03-18T15:51:34Z")
“Where, if anywhere, can I find a surviving copy of _Love’s Labor’s Won_ or _Cardenio?_” ---
**Author:** ![Wargamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@Wargamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wargamer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/63 "2009-03-18T16:15:27Z")
What is the answer to the question I most need to ask? ---
**Author:** ![NineToTheSky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5a626/32.png) [@NineToTheSky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NineToTheSky)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 4:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/64 "2009-03-18T16:22:58Z")
> [@Wargamer](#): > > What is the answer to the question I most need to ask? But would you know what the answer referred to? ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/65 "2009-03-19T06:35:07Z")
Do these pants make me look fat? ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/66 "2009-03-19T07:20:17Z")
> [@astorian](#): > > If this “Source” were truly omniscient, it would BE God, and there’d be no need to ask if God existed. Omnicient does not mean immortal, what if this entity said there is no God, and that he just studies alot and has good retention. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/67 "2009-03-19T07:29:57Z")
Who is “You’re So Vain” about? ---
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f08c70/32.png) [@Uncle\_Brother\_Walker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Brother_Walker)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/68 "2009-03-19T07:36:50Z")
What’s the best thing I can do with my life? Just a paraphrase from\* Papillion\* (starring Steve McQueen), the worst thing to hear is that you have lived a “wasted life”. Believe me, I’ve had periods of futility. I am sure a lot of us have. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 7:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/69 "2009-03-19T07:39:07Z")
Does size _really_ matter? ---
**Author:** ![Baraqiyal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@Baraqiyal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baraqiyal)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 8:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/70 "2009-03-19T08:09:45Z")
I would like to see how it would respond to a paradoxical question. Something like, If Pinocchio said “My nose is going to grow now”, would it in fact grow, or not? ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/71 "2009-03-19T08:14:30Z")
Those princes in the tower: who killed them? ---
**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527/72 "2009-03-19T08:18:16Z")
I’d have to go for the lotto numbers. I’d be tempted to ask something about love, but the truth is that I don’t want to know. I feel like life needs some mystery to be worthwhile. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-could-have-one-question-answered-completely-truthfully/489527.md?page=3)