# Stupid questions you hear on television

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**Created:** [December 15, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-you-hear-on-television/45682 "2000-12-15T02:58:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-you-hear-on-television/45682/1 "2000-12-15T02:58:34Z")

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This from a “documentary” airing on F/X about train wrecks:

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> What happens when a train collides head on with a tanker truck full of gasoline?

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**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-you-hear-on-television/45682/2 "2000-12-15T03:33:58Z")

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Rhetorical questions are not asked to find an answer.

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**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-you-hear-on-television/45682/3 "2000-12-15T05:25:31Z")

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Three-fourths of all the interview questions asked on television can be reduced down to this: “How do you feel?”

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**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-you-hear-on-television/45682/4 "2000-12-15T05:40:58Z")

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Any of the questions on Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

Robin

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**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-you-hear-on-television/45682/5 "2000-12-15T16:15:57Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \*  
> \*\*Three-fourths of all the interview questions asked on television can be reduced down to this: “How do you feel?” \*\*

An even bigger percentage of questions in interviews of athletes aren’t even questions.

- Interviewer standing next to athlete, holding microphone.  
“This was a big game, slugger. Back in the eighth inning you got a hold of one and sent it out for three runs.”
- Interviewer points microphone at athlete.

Is that a question or a statement? Am I missing something? Luckily for the interviewer, that’s usually all an athletes needs to tell the world how great he is, in the humblest of terms of course.

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**Author:** ![slowhand53](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a698b9/32.png) [@slowhand53](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slowhand53)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stupid-questions-you-hear-on-television/45682/6 "2000-12-15T16:44:48Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \*  
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> > \*Originally posted by Robot Arm \*  
> > \*\*Three-fourths of all the interview questions asked on television can be reduced down to this: “How do you feel?” \*\*
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> An even bigger percentage of questions in interviews of athletes aren’t even questions.
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> - Interviewer standing next to athlete, holding microphone.  
> “This was a big game, slugger. Back in the eighth inning you got a hold of one and sent it out for three runs.”
> - Interviewer points microphone at athlete.
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> Is that a question or a statement? Am I missing something? Luckily for the interviewer, that’s usually all an athletes needs to tell the world how great he is, in the humblest of terms of course. \*\*

Check out Hockey on cable. It’s a wee bit better. they occasionally ask a decent question. often enough for me to actually not change the channel at intermission until they let the player go to the locker room.