# Your Question Is....?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 11, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867 "2014-07-11T15:47:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 20\
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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/1 "2014-07-11T15:47:25Z")

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If you could have _any_ one question answered, what would that question be?

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**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/2 "2014-07-11T17:20:19Z")

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My question would be “Will we eventually migrate off this planet before we die off?”

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**Author:** ![CheshireKat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cheshirekat/32/1207_2.png) [@CheshireKat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CheshireKat)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/3 "2014-07-11T17:26:31Z")

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What don’t I know?

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**Author:** ![Crotalus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crotalus/32/41_2.png) [@Crotalus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crotalus)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/4 "2014-07-11T17:35:42Z")

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> [@CheshireKat](#):
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> What don’t I know?

That’s a great question!

Mine would be: what actually happened to Paul on the road to Damascus? Both he and the book of Acts of the Apostles say he had a vision of Jesus. Whatever it was motivated him to spend the next 30 years or so defining and preaching Christianity. If it was a hallucination, it was a doozy.

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**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/5 "2014-07-11T17:46:23Z")

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What important question should I ask?

Once we know the right question, finding the answer is the easy part.

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**Author:** ![chrisk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@chrisk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chrisk)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/6 "2014-07-11T17:54:40Z")

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> [@shiftless](#):
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> What important question should I ask?
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> Once we know the right question, finding the answer is the easy part.

But that calls for a big value judgment on the part of the entity answering the question. And the OP didn’t even guarantee that we’d get a correct answer to a factual question, just an answer. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Steken](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Steken](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steken)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/7 "2014-07-11T20:53:34Z")

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Do I look fat in this?

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**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/8 "2014-07-11T21:41:54Z")

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What is 42?

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**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/9 "2014-07-11T22:22:10Z")

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What happens after we die - is there _any_ sort of afterlife that the deceased is aware of?

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**Author:** ![eltro102](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@eltro102](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eltro102)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2014, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/10 "2014-07-11T22:31:27Z")

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When will I die?

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/11 "2014-07-12T00:13:26Z")

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If I were to ask you if this is the road leading to the village where there is a tavern serving free beer tonight, would you say “Yes”?

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**Author:** ![Karen\_Lingel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karen_lingel/32/18649_2.png) [@Karen\_Lingel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Karen_Lingel)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/12 "2014-07-12T01:16:48Z")

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Who \*did \*shoot the deputy?

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**Author:** ![carlotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/898d66/32.png) [@carlotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlotta)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/13 "2014-07-12T01:22:24Z")

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how can we end violence among humans?

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**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:** [July 12, 2014, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/14 "2014-07-12T08:44:23Z")

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Why do fools fall in love?

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**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 9:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/15 "2014-07-12T09:52:10Z")

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Who put the Bomp in the Bomp, Bomp, Bomp?

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/16 "2014-07-12T10:46:32Z")

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Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

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**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/17 "2014-07-12T10:50:02Z")

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Where is the point?

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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/18 "2014-07-12T10:58:35Z")

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Why?

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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 11:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/19 "2014-07-12T11:00:23Z")

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Why not?

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**Author:** ![QuickSilver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quicksilver/32/7832_2.png) [@QuickSilver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QuickSilver)\
**Post date:** [July 12, 2014, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-question-is/692867/20 "2014-07-12T18:14:51Z")

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What are the winning Powerball numbers for the next $500M draw?

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