Question

Definition: Question

Question

Noun

1. An instance of questioning; "there was a question about my training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present".

2. The subject matter at issue; "the question of disease merits serious discussion"; "under the head of minor Roman poets".

3. A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply; "he asked a direct question"; "he had trouble phrasing his interrogations".

4. Uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something; "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no question about the validity of the enterprise".

5. A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote; "he made a motion to adjourn"; "she called for the question".

6. An informal reference to a marriage proposal; "he was ready to pop the question".

Verb

1. Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of; "We must question your judgment in this matter".

2. Pose a series of questions to; "The suspect was questioned by the police"; "We questioned the survivor about the details of the explosion".

3. Pose a question.

4. Conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting.

5. Place in doubt or express doubtful speculation; "I wonder whether this was the right thing to do"; "she wondered whether it would snow tonight".

Date "question" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Specialty Definition: Question

Domain	Definition
19th Century Satire	Is marriage a failure?. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904.
Dream Interpretation	To question the merits of a thing in your dreams, denotes that you will suspect some one whom you love of unfaithfulness, and you will fear for your speculations. To ask a question, foretells that you will earnestly strive for truth and be successful. If you are questioned, you will be unfairly dealt with. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Literature	Question To move the previous question No one seems able to give any clear and satisfactory explanation of this phrase. Erskine May, in his Parliamentary Practice, p. 303 (9th edition), says: "It is an ingenious method of avoiding a vote upon any question that has been proposed, but the technical phrase does little to elucidate its operation. When there is no debate, or after a debate is closed, the Speaker ordinarily puts the question as a matter of course, ... but by a motion for the previous question, this act may be intercepted and forbidden. The custom [used to be] `that the question be now put,' but Arthur Wellesley Peel, while Speaker, changed the words `be now put' into `be not put.'" The former process was obviously absurd. To continue the quotation from Erskine May: "Those who wish to avoid the putting of the main question, vote against the previous (or latter question), and if it be resolved in the negative, the Speaker is prevented from putting the main question, as the House has refused to allow it to be put. It may, however, be brought forward again another day." Of course this is correct, but what it means is quite another matter; and why "the main question" is called the "previous question" is past understanding Question. When members of the House of Commons or other debaters call out Question, they mean that the person speaking is wandering away from the subject under consideration. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Politics & International Affaires	To put a question on the order paper. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
quest.	English	Question	Language
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Irreligion	Verb: be irreligious; Adjective: disbelieve, lack faith; doubt, question.
Unbelief Doubt	Throw doubt upon, raise a question; bring in, call in question; question, challenge, dispute; deny; cavil; cause a doubt, raise a doubt, start a doubt, suggest a doubt, awake a doubt, make suspicion; ergotize.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	It's the question that drives us. It's the question that brought you here (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.) I got a question. If you guys know so much about women, how come you're here at like the Gas 'n' Sip on a Saturday night completely alone drinking beers with no women anywhere (Say Anything; writing credit: Cameron Crowe.) I haven't even asked you the question yet (The Horse Whisperer; writing credit: Eric Roth) A just question my liege (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh) Check my pulse on this question, Jack, do I think you're a psycho (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke)
Lyrics	I don't know the answer to that question (The Look Of Love; performing artist: ABC) The only question now is LaGuardia or Kennedy (If I Could Go; performing artist: Angie Martinez) Gotta a question for you (Everybody(Backstreet's Back); performing artist: BACKSTREET BOYS) There's not a single question (Bring It All To Me; performing artist: Blaque) Now, man may live, man may die searching for the question why. (Tuesday's Dead; performing artist: Cat Stevens)
Clever	If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people. (references; author: Mark Twain) Don't put a question mark where God put a period. (references; author: unknown) To be or not to be? I think its a trick question. (references; author: unknown) The meaning of life is not a question to be answered, but an event to be experienced. (references; author: unknown) When asking a question of someone your not sure of, only ask if you know half the answer. (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	A Question of Degree (1972) The Question of Television Violence (1972) Question de vie (1971) A Question of Values (1971) I'm Glad You Asked That Question (1970)
Song Titles	Question (performing artist: The Moody Blues)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	Scandal Broth & A Question of Class (2 regencies in 1) (reference) The Question of Bruno (reference) Eating Disorders: A Question and Answer Book About Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa (reference) Do Whales Have Belly Buttons?: Questions and Answers About Whales and Dolphins (Berger, Melvin. Scholastic Question and Answer Series.) (reference) Secrets of Question Based Selling: How the Most Powerful Tool in Business Can Double Your Sales Results (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Npra Question & Answer Session On Refining And Petrochemical Technology (reference) Whistler Question (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	The Unanswered Question - Six Talks at Harvard by Leonard Bernstein (reference) A Question of Attribution (reference) Question of Attribution/Englishman (reference) A Question of Origins: Examining the Creation/Evolution Controversy (reference) Details of a Duel: A Question of Honor (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Question in the Form of an Answer (reference) Question of Balance [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference) A Whiter Shade of Pale/A Question of Honour [CD-SINGLE] [EP] (reference) Metaphysical Question (reference) Feel It! Very Best of Question Mark & The Mysterians (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Consumer Goods	Saint Hilaire Question Mark Corkscrew (reference) (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	A man responds to a question at a press conference standing at a lecturn, while 2 photographers take his picture. See artwork: OCC-04. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.		The Quarantine Question. Credit: National Library of Medicine.
	Pharmacist's Mate 1st Class Jackie Welsh depetals a flower to settle an ageless question of romance, as Signalman 2nd Class Harold Howey records the event on film. Witnesses are Pharmacist's Mate 3rd Class Anna Welsh (left) and Aviation Machinist's Mate 2nd Class Evalyne Olsen. All four are stationed at Naval Air Station, New Orleans, Louisiana. The photograph was taken prior to December 1944. Credit: NAVY.		Prize crew officer of the Japanese gunboat Ataka, and other U.S. Navy personnel question a Japanese Navy officer on the dock at Shanghai, China, in October 1945. Ataka is tied up behind them. Credit: NAVY.
	The fish question settled. Credit: Library of Congress.		The main question. Credit: Library of Congress.
	A question of labor. : This question is from first to last, from the beginning to the end, from skin to core and from core to skin again, a question of labor--James G. Blaine. Credit: Library of Congress.		I admit the question is an impertinent one. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The old question. Credit: Library of Congress.		Senator J. William Fulbright in question over trip to Cyprus. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.


"Lone Ant" by Hubert H White Commentary: "In the everyday there are great obstacles, ask your local neighbour Ant. This one has lost his friends and looks to be far from home. Life's most urgent question is: what are you doing for others? —Martin Luther King, Jr."	"Walk and Bike Sign 3" by Alex T Commentary: "To walk or to bike? That is the question."
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

Author	Quotation
Francis Bacon	A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Homer	A young man is embarrassed to question an older one.
Julius Caesar	[In answer to a question as to what sort of death was the best] A sudden death.
Oswald Chambers	When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, ''I can't.''
Susan B. Anthony	The only question left to be settled now is: Are women persons?
Thomas Babington Macaulay	Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.
Thomas Carlyle	Everywhere in life the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Voltaire	He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.
Walt Whitman	I accept reality and dare not question it.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	But farther, this question, (Who shall be judge?) cannot mean, that there is no judge at all: for where there is no judicature on earth, to decide controversies amongst men, God in heaven is judge. (Second Treatise of Government)
US Constitution	1791	Clause 3: Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal. (reference)
Marbury v. Madison	1803	The question, whether an act, repugnant to the constitution, can become the law of the land, is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. (reference)
Communist Manifesto	1848	Thenceforth, a serious political contest was altogether out of the question. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	Question of preventing or providing against unemployment. (reference)
Winston S. Churchill	1946	There is however an important question we must ask ourselves. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)
Brown v. Board of Education	1954	In the instant cases, that question is directly presented. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	Intimacy between Miss Fairfax and me is quite out of the question.
Tangled Tale	Carroll, Lewis	Her aunt evaded the question.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	With all this difference of opinion as to the cause of his decline, there could be no question of the fact
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	As to convents, they present a complex question.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	It is a question of public morality
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	She paused and licked her dry lips, and her whole face was an aching question.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	This I delivered in a firm tone, like a person who was jealous lest his courage should be called in question.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		This is a critical research question. (references)
		This question has been the subject of public debate. (references)
		Separate studies are underway to examine this question. (references)
Business		Sales terms should be adjusted to the financing capacity of the company in question. (references)
		Actris AG, is it financially competitive? There is no absolute answer to this question. (references)
		The visit is to certify the company in question and its ability to adhere to quality and safety standards. (references)
Children	Qatar	Persons with Disabilities The law does not address the question of discrimination against persons with disabilities. (references)
Civil Liberties	Micronesia	During political campaigns, citizens often question candidates at public meetings and social gatherings. (references)
	Vietnam	Police authorities routinely question persons who hold dissident religious or political views, such as UBCV monks and Hoa Hao leaders. (references)
Economic History	Austria	A second consideration is the price/quality question. (references)
	Guinea	Periodic delays depend solely on the banks of the foreign investors in question. (references)
	Macau	China refused to reclaim Macau however, hoping to settle the question of Hong Kong first. (references)
Human Rights	Netherlands	Police officers may question suspects for a maximum of 6 hours. (references)
	Kyrgyz Republic	In practice all members of the court have equal rights and may question witnesses. (references)
	Maldives	Judges question the concerned parties and attempt to establish the facts of a case. (references)
Minorities	Moldova	Minority rights and the language question are related closely, particularly in the perceptions of the Russian speaking minority and the Moldovan/Romanian speaking majority. (references)
Political Economy	Netherlands	It shares with the First Chamber the right to question ministers and junior ministers. (references)
	HUNGARY	Some question exists of whether sufficient legal authority exists for civil ex parte search procedures. (references)
Political Rights	Zimbabwe	Parliamentary question time is used to force debate and disclosure. (references)
	Maldives	Debate on the floor since the question period was instituted has become increasingly sharp and open. (references)
	United Arab Emirates	The FNC has no legislative authority but it may question ministers and make policy recommendations to the Cabinet. (references)
Trade	Brazil	Disbursal above that limit depends on the company in question. (references)
	Argentina	If the additive in question does not appear on that list, its registration can be requested to INAL. (references)
	Hungary	The exact percentage varies according to the product in question, with 50-60 percent a very broad rule of thumb. (references)
Travel	Vietnam	A license offering duty exemption for such items may be obtained but only if the items in question are listed specifically in the firm's investment license. (references)
	Latvia	Whether or not a person with United States citizenship would also be considered as a Latvian citizen is a legal question dependent upon an individual's date and place of birth and the nationality of both parents. (references)
	Austria	For example, when making appointments with prospective buyers or clients, we recommend you make initial contact well in advance, either in writing or by phone, and offer to meet on the premises of the person in question. (references)
Women	Taiwan	In February the Ministry of Interior adopted a new procedure under which doctors, social workers, police, and prosecutors jointly question victims of sexual abuse in order to reduce the number of times a victim is questioned. (references)
Worker Rights	Bahamas	The tribunal's decision is final and can only be appealed in court on a strict question of law. (references)
	China	In October the Government convened an interagency commission to study the question of child labor. (references)
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	HEAD-:MONEY:, n. A capitation tax, or poll-tax. In ancient times there lived a king Whose tax-collectors could not wring From all his subjects gold enough To make the royal way less rough. For pleasure's highway, like the dames Whose premises adjoin it, claims Perpetual repairing. So The tax-collectors in a row Appeared before the throne to pray Their master to devise some way To swell the revenue. "So great," Said they, "are the demands of state A tithe of all that we collect Will scarcely meet them. Pray reflect: How, if one-tenth we must resign, Can we exist on t'other nine?" The monarch asked them in reply: "Has it occurred to you to try The advantage of economy?" "It has," the spokesman said: "we sold All of our gray garrotes of gold; With plated-ware we now compress The necks of those whom we assess. Plain iron forceps we employ To mitigate the miser's joy Who hoards, with greed that never tires, That which your Majesty requires." Deep lines of thought were seen to plow Their way across the royal brow. "Your state is desperate, no question; Pray favor me with a suggestion." "O King of Men," the spokesman said, "If you'll impose upon each head A tax, the augmented revenue We'll cheerfully divide with you." As flashes of the sun illume The parted storm-cloud's sullen gloom, The king smiled grimly. "I decree That it be so -- and, not to be In generosity outdone, Declare you, each and every one, Exempted from the operation Of this new law of capitation. But lest the people censure me Because they're bound and you are free, 'Twere well some clever scheme were laid By you this poll-tax to evade. I'll leave you now while you confer With my most trusted minister." The monarch from the throne-room walked And straightway in among them stalked A silent man, with brow concealed, Bare-armed -- his gleaming axe revealed! G.J.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	Croix mentioned in the treaty of peace, and forming a part of the boundary therein described, have finally decided that question.
Abraham Lincoln	1861-1865	As yet, whatever it may hereafter become, that question is bad, as the basis of a controversy, and good for nothing at all-a merely pernicious abstraction.
Ulysses S. Grant	1869-1877	Whilst the question of specie payments is in abeyance the prudent business man is careful about contracting debts payable in the distant future.
Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921	To be indifferent to it, or independent of it, was out of the question.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	However, the question is from where did they shoot.
Lyndon B. Johnson	1963-1969	Now we come to a question that weighs very heavily on all our minds-on yours and mine.
Richard Nixon	1969-1974	Let us all understand that the question before us is not whether some Americans are for peace and some Americans are against peace.
Jimmy Carter	1977-1981	Neither the Soviet Union nor any other nation will have reason to question our will to sustain the strongest and most flexible defense forces.
Ronald Reagan	1981-1989	Yet any time you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being opposed to their humanitarian goals.
Bill Clinton	1993-2001	Tonight, we are summoned to answer a question as old as the Republic itself.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	94.9%	24,461	352
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	4.52%	1,165	6,604
Lexical Verb (base form)	0.56%	144	26,339
Noun (proper)	0.02%	6	143,867
Total	100.00%	25,776	N/A

Expressions using "question": a question of great interest ♦ a vexed question ♦ absurd question ♦ answer a question ♦ ask a parliamentary question ♦ ask a question ♦ ask question ♦ ask smb. a question ♦ asking a question ♦ attitudinal question ♦ be a question ♦ be beside the question ♦ be in question ♦ be out of the question ♦ beg the question ♦ begging the question ♦ beyond all question ♦ beyond question ♦ bring in question ♦ bring into question ♦ burning question ♦ call in question ♦ call into question ♦ calling into question ♦ catch question ♦ catchy question ♦ come in question ♦ come into question ♦ cross question ♦ crunch question ♦ debate on question raised in parliament ♦ delicate question ♦ difficult question ♦ easy question ♦ embarrassing question ♦ encoded question ♦ encoded search question ♦ evade a question ♦ far from the question ♦ fence with a question ♦ framing of a question ♦ frequently asked question ♦ go deep into a question ♦ go into a question ♦ going now is out of the question ♦ grapple with the question ♦ have no bearing on the question ♦ hold a question in suspense ♦ in question ♦ it is out of the question ♦ it's out of the question ♦ knotty question ♦ leading question ♦ make no question of ♦ moot the question ♦ move to the previous question ♦ nasty question ♦ negro question ♦ nice question ♦ open question ♦ opened question ♦ out of all question ♦ out of question ♦ out of the question ♦ parliamentary question ♦ past question ♦ personal question ♦ pop a question ♦ pop the question ♦ previous question ♦ prize question ♦ propose the question ♦ propound the question ♦ put a question ♦ put a question to ♦ put forth the question ♦ put question ♦ put the question ♦ put to the question ♦ question and answer session ♦ question at issue ♦ Question hour ♦ question mark ♦ question master ♦ question of confidence ♦ question of etiquette ♦ question of fact ♦ question of judgement ♦ question of judgment ♦ question of law ♦ question of money ♦ question of peculiar interest ♦ question of philosophy ♦ question of priorities ♦ question of privilege ♦ question of time ♦ question sheet ♦ question time ♦ raise a question ♦ raise the question ♦ respond to a question. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "question": question-and-answer, question-and-listen, question-answer, question-answering, question-asking, question-begging, question-framework, question-free, question-mark, question-marks, question-posing, question-provoking, question-raising, question-setter, question-tag, question-tags, question-time, question-times, question-type.
	Ending with "question": breasts-in-question, Cross-question, half-question, multi-question, non-question, one-question, part-question, re-question, sub-question, wh-question.
	Containing "question": non-question-begging, wh-question-words.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "question"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaans		vraag, navraag (asking, enquiry), kwessie (dispute, quarrel). (various references)

Albanian		vë në dyshim (challenge, dispute, impeach, impugn), pyetje (cross-question, enquiry, inquiry, interrogation, interrogatory, perquisition, quaere, query, questioning, request, requisition), pyes (ask, care, demand, enquire, inquire, interrogate, query, quiz), punë (affair, affairs, appointment, avocation, berth, business, concern, concernment, deed, doing, duty, employ, engagement, function, job, labor, labour, make, making, metier, movement, occupation, office, operation, practice, service, shebang, slot, task, task-work, thing, work), problem (affair, business, concern, issue, knot, problem, proposition), hetoj (enquire, inquire, investigate, look into, probe, scan, study), dyshoj (call in question, dilly dally, disbelieve, distrust, doubt, misdoubt, smell a rat, suspect), bëj pyetje (query), çështje (affair, business, case, cause, concern, count, issue, matter, point, problem, shebang, subject). (various references)

Arabic		‏تساؤل (query), ‏شكك (call in question, hesitate, impeach, misbelieve, query), ‏إستجوب (be examined, debrief, examine, inquire into, interrogate, investigate), ‏إستجواب (examination, inquest, inquiry, interrogation, interrogatory, investigation, probe), ‏إستطلاع (questionnaire, quiz, recognition, reconnaissance, reconnoitring, scout, scouting), ‏إستفهم (query), ‏خلاف (clash, conflict, contention, contest, controversy, difference, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discordance, dispute, dissension, dissidence, disunion, disunity, division, friction, odds, quarrel, strife, variance), ‏شك (discount, discredit, dispute, doubt, fall under suspicion, incertitude, inkling, misgiving, odor, odour, qualms, query, scepticism, scrupulosity, smell a rat, suspicion, unbelief, uncertainty, wonder), ‏سؤال (inquiry, query, request), سؤال (request), ‏قضية (affair, business, case, cause, issue, matter), ‏ناقش (agitate, argue, bat, canvass, converse, debate, discuss, dispute, join issue with, moot, oppugn, powwow, set about, speak, talk, talk over, ventilate), ‏نزاع (contention, contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, discord, discordance, disputation, dispute, division, duel, embroilment, fray, odds, quarrel, row, spar, squall, strife, struggle, tangle, variance, wont), ‏مشكلة (issue, kink, labyrinth, nodus, nut, problem, snag, trouble, twister), ‏مطلب (demand, matter, request, requirement), ‏مسألة (affair, case, issue, matter, problem, proposition, thing), ‏موضوع (item, matter, motif, object, subject, theme, topic), ‏سأل (ask, beg, call, call on, enquire, inquire, quiz, request, shout, speak). (various references)

Basque		galdera. (various references)

Blackfoot		sopowahtsi'si (to ask a question). (various references)

Bulgarian		съмнение (challenge, discredit, doubt, scruple, suspicion, uncertainty), разпитвам (enquire, examine, inquire, interrogate, query), търся сведения от, търся отговор от, възражение (answer, caveat, demur, demurrer, deprecation, exception, expostulation, objection, protest, protestation, rejoinder, remonstrance, reply, reservation), въпросително изречение, въпрос (affair, interrogation, interrogatory, matter, problem, subject matter, thing, topic), оспорвам (call down, contest, contravene, controvert, debate, dispute, gainsay, impugn, litigate, oppugn, query), запитване (interpellation), задавам въпрос, поставям под съмнение (call in question, challenge, impeach, impugn, oppugn), питане (asking, inquiring, interpellation), питам (ask, query), изтезание при разпит, изпитвам (assay, condition, essay, examine, experience, feel, proof, prove, quiz, sample, see, test, try, undergo). (various references)

Chinese		質疑 (call into question), 質問 (inquire, interrogate), 问题 (Issue, matter, Problem). (various references)

Czech		otázka (issue, problem, query, thing). (various references)

Danish		spørgsmål (encoded search question, query, query formulation). (various references)

Dutch		vraag (application, request), navraag (interrogation, invitation to transmit sequence, polling), kwestie (dispute, quarrel). (various references)

Esperanto		kontesti (challenge), esplordemandi (interrogate), demando. (various references)

Faeroese		mótmæla (challenge). (various references)

Farsi		پرسیدن (Ask, Query), پرسش (Inquiry, Query), موضوع (Head, Issue, Motif, Object, Point, Problem, Proposition, Subject, Text, Theme, Topic), مسلله (Example, Problem, Theorem), تحقیق کردن (Assay, Inquire, Interrogate, Investigate, Verify), تردیدکردن در, سوال (Query), استفهام . (various references)

Finnish		kysymys (inquiry, query). (various references)

French		question (query), contester, disputer. (various references)

Frisian		fraach. (various references)

German		Fragen (ask, interrogate, queries, query, questions, to ask, to interrogate, to request), Frage (demand, interrogation, issue, matter, problem, query, quest), befragen (consult, examine, interrogate, poll), ausfragen (grill, interrogate, quiz, sound out), anzweifeln (doubt, impeach, to doubt). (

Speaker	Phrase(s)
Al Hunt	All right. We're going to take a break right now, but when we come back, we'll have the Big Question for the Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations.
Art Linkletter	Nope. I love the lecture platform. I love the question and answers. It's there. You're walking on a rope again.
Ellen Levin	That's a good question. We have a law that's called the Son of Sam law in New York, and that prohibits any criminal from profiting from their crime.
Paul Harvey	I'm asked that question a lot and I'm not even aware of it. I'm just pausing between what I'm saying and what I'm thinking about saying.
Robert Novak	Mr. Leader, we're going have to take a break, but I want to ask you one quick question. You just got back from a trip, including a trip to the Middle East.
Ronald Reagan	I certainly hope not. And I have to question whether they would. I hope on the other side that Israel stands firm and doesn't join in any activity.
Rush Limbaugh	Even Al Gore and the DNC's head punk, Terry McAuliffe, don't want to question Bush's legitimacy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
interview question	3,580	question mark	216
21 question	3,546	answer to question	202
medical question	2,068	job interview question and answer	188
question	1,053	frequently asked question	180
trivia question	1,049	interviewing question	171
21 lyrics question	808	stupid question	168
health question	791	20 question	159
job interview question	724	mortgage question	158
ask jeeves a question	554	relationship question	158
sex question	537	funny question	149
21 50 cent lyrics question	496	sample interview question	146
21 50 cent question	488	question ask interview	143
interview question answer	471	newlywed game question	141
pregnancy question	424	bankruptcy question	135
tax question	379	trick question	129
bible question	366	free trivia question	124
legal question	312	trivia question answer	111
ask a question	285	dating question	110
teacher interview question	248	a question of love	109
truth or dare question	221	computer question	107
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Francis Bacon

Homer

Julius Caesar

Oswald Chambers

Susan B. Anthony

Thomas Babington Macaulay

Thomas Carlyle

Voltaire

Walt Whitman

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John Locke

US Constitution

Marbury v. Madison

Communist Manifesto

Treaty of Versailles

Winston S. Churchill

Brown v. Board of Education

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Emma

Austen, Jane

Tangled Tale

Carroll, Lewis

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

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Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

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Al Hunt

Art Linkletter

Ellen Levin

Paul Harvey

Robert Novak

Ronald Reagan

Rush Limbaugh

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