Are there any other questions that are in a sense unawnserable other than “What do you want?” and “Who are you?”
This is more of a philisophical argument between a friend and I. and those are the only two question that we have determined to be truely unanwserable.
thanks for any input.
(side note, didnt know where this went so mod please feel free to move acordingly.)
Who wants to know?
Why is there stuff? I think that’s the biggie.
Why is up?
But surely there are a gazillion unanswerable questions … like …
How many leaves did the lettuce have, which sat next to the one you’re eating on the supermarket shelf?
What will be the biggest-selling record of 2005?
What happened to the leftover wood after your desk was made?
How many peas has that woman’s husband eaten in his lifetime?
Why did Michael Jackson do it?? 
Julie
How many unanswerable questions are there?
All these questions are answerable. Just not by you (or me) right now.
What is the frequency, Kenneth?
Who farted?
How do you know these are the only unanswerable questions?
If a tree falls in a forest, does anyone hear?
Where did the phrase ‘the whole nine yards’ come from?
How did the Universe begin?
What is outside the Universe?
Which is better; yellow or green?
I can answer them right now. My answer is “I don’t know.”
OK, let’s see …
How many leaves did the lettuce have, which sat next to the one you’re eating on the supermarket shelf? - Granted … you may have bought both lettuces … lettuci … lettucae … vegetables, and still have the other one, so you can count them. :smack:
What will be the biggest-selling record of 2005? - If you know someone who knows the answer to this, I’d like to meet them and discuss the lottery. 
What happened to the leftover wood after your desk was made? - OK, I should have explained that the carpenter died and told no-one. (Do I hear “cheat”? 
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How many peas has that woman’s husband eaten in his lifetime? - Assuming the woman has a husband, and he eats peas … what are the chances that someone, selected at random, decided as a baby to count every pea he eats throughout his life? OK, I admit it’s possible. 
Why did Michael Jackson do it?? - Ah now … there’s a question …
Julie
Why are you eating lettuce on the supermarket shelf?
OK, I admit it … I’m On The Shelf.
Julie
Have you too agreed on a definition of unanswerable questions? Otherwise, that question is, well, un…clear.
But I’ll offer a few suggestions, that are unanswerable in some sense:
Apple?
What’s north of the north pole?
Do two lines at right angles to the same line meet?
Are all even numbers the sum of two primes?
Is ‘This statement is false’ true?
What’s the largest prime number?
Have you stopped beating your wife yet?
No, I haven’t stopped beating my wife beacuse I never started.
… don’t start that one again :o)
“Why are you so stupid?”
What’s it really like inside a black hole?
Mumblemumblemumble?
How is it that the deepest questions are the ones you’re asked when you try to enter the wrong house at three in the morning?
The two questions initially posed as unanswerable, ‘What do you want?’ and ‘Who are you?’ are <i>subjective</i>. Different people will give different answers to them. This is the only case where different answers can be simultaneously ‘true’. Likewise with ‘Which is better, yellow or green?’ There may not be a single right answer, but the nature of the question means there <i>can’t</i> be a single right answer-- it would be meaningless.