If I feel I am going to lose my temper for no apparent reason, what should I do?
on May 25th, 2012 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Are any of you planning on going on a picnic this summer?
on May 25th, 2012 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

When were alarm clocks invented?
on May 24th, 2012 | 4 answers

In the UK, will there ever be a £100 note at some time in the future?
on May 11th, 2012 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Are you planning on going to London to view the Olympics?
on April 18th, 2012 | 10 answers | 4 people like this

Where would you like to live, if you could choose?
on April 18th, 2012 | 8 answers | 3 people like this

Do you enjoy visiting museums and/or art galleries? If so, which ones?
on April 12th, 2012 | 11 answers | 5 people like this

Is it easy for a child as young as 3 to learn its times tables?
on April 12th, 2012 | 4 answers

I usually leave a library 12 minutes before closing time. Is it possible for me to vary this once in a while?
on April 11th, 2012 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

When were keys invented?
on April 11th, 2012 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

I have Asperger's Syndrome and often ask personal or puerile questions when I am anxious. What sort of questions could I ask instead?
on April 11th, 2012 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Name an animal which begins with the letter G.
on April 11th, 2012 | 18 answers | 5 people like this

Name a utensil widely used in the kitchen.
on April 11th, 2012 | 14 answers | 7 people like this

Why isn't time metric?
on April 11th, 2012 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

How are you celebrating Mothering Sunday this year?
on March 3rd, 2012 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Have you given anything up for Lent? If so, what?
on February 22nd, 2012 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Did you have any snow in your area recently?
on February 11th, 2012 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

How many flags of the world can you name?
on February 11th, 2012 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Are you looking forward to switching from analogue TV to digital?
on January 20th, 2012 | 5 answers

What is the third largest state in the USA?
on January 18th, 2012 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

How are you planning to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee this June?
on January 14th, 2012 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What sort of wine is best drunk with roast chicken?
on January 11th, 2012 | 11 answers | 3 people like this

What are your New Year's Resolutions for 2012(if any)?
on January 5th, 2012 | One answer

What sort of plans do you out there have for 2012?
on January 5th, 2012 | One answer | 2 people like this

How many Christmas number ones (e.g. Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade) can you think of?
on December 31st, 2011 | 3 answers

Are you going to midnight mass this Christmas Eve?
on December 4th, 2011 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention Advent?
on November 14th, 2011 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

What plans do you have for Bonfire Night 2011?
on November 4th, 2011 | 4 answers

How did the Alsatian come to be known as the German Shepherd dog?
on October 23rd, 2011 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

What is the key to a long and healthy life?
on October 20th, 2011 | 3 answers

What is the capital of Cuba?
on October 19th, 2011 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Name a food traditionally associated with Bonfire Night.
on October 15th, 2011 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

In order to lose weight, what sort of foods should I cut down on?
on October 13th, 2011 | 8 answers | 2 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention the word efficient?
on October 13th, 2011 | 8 answers | 2 people like this

How did Erathostenes' Sieve get its name?
on October 13th, 2011 | 2 answers

What is the origin of the term serendipity?
on October 8th, 2011 | One answer

Will we be having street parties for the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012?
on October 5th, 2011 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

How many words can you think of that spell a different word backwards (e.g. pat/tap, pets/step, devil/lived, sports/strops)?
on October 4th, 2011 | 4 answers

Complete this sentence: you've had _______________________, now scat.
on October 4th, 2011 | 7 answers | 2 people like this

What is the longest word in the English language with no repeats of letters? I think the longest such number is eighty four.
on October 4th, 2011 | One answer

Who invented tobacco?
on October 4th, 2011 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

In AB lingo, what do they call "sock puppet accounts"?
on October 4th, 2011 | One answer | 2 people like this

How many Spanish numbers (e.g. once, quince) are also English words?
on October 4th, 2011 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Should dieters go on a salt-free diet?
on October 4th, 2011 | 2 answers

Can octopus be cooked & eaten?
on October 4th, 2011 | 9 answers | 5 people like this

Why does pi never end? I tend to think of it as being 25/8, which is 3.125. That's because I find 3.125 easier for me to remember.
on October 4th, 2011 | 9 answers | 1 person likes this

What exactly does tsk tsk mean?
on October 4th, 2011 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention the word arc?
on October 4th, 2011 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

Name something that's cute and amusing at 10, but old hat at 30.
on October 4th, 2011 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What do we call words which have the same spelling but (a) a different definition and (b) a different pronunciation?
on October 3rd, 2011 | One answer

What does the proverb 'curiosity killed the cat' mean?
on October 3rd, 2011 | 3 answers

What do we call words like row (as in withheld has two H's in a row) and row (I kicked up a row because I had to stay behind)?
on October 3rd, 2011 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What does the slang phrase 'put a foot wrong' mean?
on October 3rd, 2011 | One answer

What does the phrase squaring the circle mean and how did it come about?
on October 3rd, 2011 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention the word cube?
on October 3rd, 2011 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

Which is the first word that pops into your mind that rhymes with key?
on October 3rd, 2011 | 5 answers

Would the phrase until further notice mean the same as for the foreseeable future?
on October 3rd, 2011 | 2 answers

What does 'take it in your stride' mean? E.g. my father advised us to have a nice quiet evening at home but I took it in my stride.
on October 3rd, 2011 | One answer

When you are upset for one reason or another, do you count?
on October 3rd, 2011 | 2 answers

Do you enjoy visits to zoos?
on October 3rd, 2011 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

Which television programmes, which have long since been axed, are you missing the most?
on October 3rd, 2011 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

At the present time, which television programes are you missing the most?
on October 2nd, 2011 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention the word speedy?
on October 1st, 2011 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

When young people with Asperger's Syndrome leave school, do they have a bleak future or an excellent future, or does it depend?
on October 1st, 2011 | 4 answers

It rhymes with blue and it means six minus four. (3 letters).
on October 1st, 2011 | 3 answers

Instead of asking people how old they are at the top of my voice, since it isn't polite, what sort of questions could I ask instead?
on October 1st, 2011 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

I have Asperger's Syndrome and as a result often get upset if answers to my questions are withheld. Can you help?
on October 1st, 2011 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What is the highest score possible for just one move in the game of Scrabble?
on September 29th, 2011 | no answers

What springs to mind when I mention the word park?
on September 24th, 2011 | 2 answers

Is turquoise a tertiary colour?
on September 23rd, 2011 | One answer

What springs to mind when I mention the mathematician Erathostenes?
on September 23rd, 2011 | 7 answers | 4 people like this

Name a food we usually have at Christmas.
on September 23rd, 2011 | 9 answers | 3 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention the term polynomials (the question I asked you yesterday wasn't quite right)?
on September 23rd, 2011 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Have you ever, in your entire life, watched the Olympic Games on TV, or been to the venues to see the games yourselves?
on September 22nd, 2011 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I emntion the term polynomials?
on September 22nd, 2011 | 9 answers

Name something you do not have at the moment, but could not possibly do without.
on September 22nd, 2011 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Last but not least in this category, would you be kind enough to give me the name of an animal whose name contains 11 letters or over?
on September 22nd, 2011 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Penultimate Numbertime animal item: would you be kind enough to give me the name of an animal whose name contains ten letters?
on September 22nd, 2011 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Question seven in a set of nine. Would you be kind enough to tell me the name of an animal whose name contains 9 letters?
on September 22nd, 2011 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Fourth-last question in this category. Name an animal whose name contains 8 letters.
on September 21st, 2011 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

Name an animal with 7 letters.
on September 21st, 2011 | 8 answers | 4 people like this

How many words can you make out of Muhammed of Ghazini? You can use words of as few letters as you wish.
on September 20th, 2011 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Part 4. Name an animal containing 6 letters.
on September 20th, 2011 | 7 answers | 3 people like this

How many words can you make out of pitchfork?
on September 20th, 2011 | 3 answers

Name something for which the novelty would wear off after a while.
on September 20th, 2011 | One answer | 1 person likes this

Third question in a set of 9. Name an animal containing 5 letters.
on September 20th, 2011 | 7 answers | 2 people like this

Second question in a set of 9. Name an animal containing four letters.
on September 20th, 2011 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

New series now. The first of 9. Name an animal containing 3 letters.
on September 20th, 2011 | 10 answers | 2 people like this

Name something over which members of the public have no control.
on September 7th, 2011 | 8 answers | 3 people like this

Would you sooner have educational items on Sunday afternoons, or just make polite conversation in a friendly manner?
on September 7th, 2011 | One answer

New series now. How is it that unicorns never existed?
on September 7th, 2011 | One answer

Last-ever question in this 'cute & amusing' category. What would you consider cute & amusing at three but old hat at nine?
on September 7th, 2011 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention the phrase key signature?
on September 7th, 2011 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Name something that is cute & amusing at eight, but old hat at twenty four.
on September 7th, 2011 | 3 answers

Name something that is considered cute + amusing at 7, but old hat at 21.
on September 7th, 2011 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

How many words can you make out of should?
on September 7th, 2011 | 2 answers

How many Eurovision Song Contest winners can you think of?
on September 3rd, 2011 | 5 answers | 5 people like this

What is your earliest memory? Please let me know if you think this question borders on the personal.
on September 2nd, 2011 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

Name something that is cute & amusing at 10 but old hat at 30.
on September 2nd, 2011 | 2 answers

What springs to mind when I mention the number 16?
on September 2nd, 2011 | 6 answers | 2 people like this

What springs to mind when i mention the word turquoise?
on September 2nd, 2011 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What would you consider cute & amusing at 17, but old hat at 51?
on September 2nd, 2011 | 2 answers

What is the capital of Luxembourg?
on August 23rd, 2011 | 2 answers

When were pillar boxes invented?
on August 21st, 2011 | 2 answers

Is the late great Amy Winehouse going to have any posthumous # 1 singles, like John Lennon and Buddy Holly did?
on August 20th, 2011 | 2 answers

Did Bobby Goldsboro have any hits to speak of, like Honey, which reached # 2 twice?
on August 20th, 2011 | One answer

Name sonething that is cute and amusing at 10 but old hat at 30.
on August 17th, 2011 | 5 answers | 3 people like this

What would you consider cute + amusing at 10 but old hat at 30?
on August 17th, 2011 | 2 answers

What would you consider old hat at 25 but old hat at 75?
on August 17th, 2011 | 2 answers

What would you consider old hat at seventeen but old hat at fifty one?
on August 17th, 2011 | One answer

What would you think of as cute and amusing at two but old hat at six?
on August 17th, 2011 | One answer

Name something that is cuta nd amusing at ten but old hat at thirty (first of seven).
on August 17th, 2011 | no answers

I've been here for 2 years and have not (yet) been put in the Penalty Box. Any ideas on how best to stop this from happening, please?
on August 17th, 2011 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Last but not least in this series, it rhymes with dive and means the second root of twenty five (4 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | One answer

It rhymes with make and means the opposite of transparent (6 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | 2 answers

It rhymes with why and means the opposite of low (4 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | 4 answers

It rhymes with slam and rice pudding is even tastier with this item of food (3 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | 10 answers | 2 people like this

It rhymes with ride and means the opposite of multiply (6 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | One answer

It rhymes with tune and you use it to eat your pudding (5 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | 11 answers | 2 people like this

It rhymes with Stein and means three threes. (4 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | One answer

It rhymes with follow and means a migratory songbird (7 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | One answer

It rhymes with door and means the second root of sixteen (4 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | 4 answers

It rhymes with bruise and means to say no when you asked to do something, or decide not to. (6 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | One answer

It rhymes with knee and means the third root of twenty seven (5 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | 2 answers

It rhymes with police and means your parents' granddaughter. (5 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | One answer

It rhymes with I'm and means a citrus fruit (4 letters).
on August 17th, 2011 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

This may sound like a puerile question, but here goes. I say, I say, I say. What boots can't you wear?
on August 17th, 2011 | 2 answers

What springs to mind when I mention the number 157?
on August 17th, 2011 | 16 answers | 4 people like this

How many words can you make out of three hundred and sixty five?
on August 17th, 2011 | 3 answers

Name a famous dinosaur.
on August 6th, 2011 | 17 answers | 6 people like this

In maths, what is a polynomial?
on May 7th, 2011 | 2 answers

Name a flower associated with spring.
on May 7th, 2011 | 9 answers | 2 people like this

Naem a flower associated with spring.
on May 3rd, 2011 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Did you have a street party for the Royal Wedding?
on April 30th, 2011 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How many words can you make out of Royal Wedding?
on April 30th, 2011 | 6 answers

What is the longest English word you know with no repeats of letters?
on March 29th, 2011 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Would you agree that times tables are now boring, outdated and irrelevant?
on March 28th, 2011 | 10 answers | 1 person likes this

Do you remember a series called Freebie and the Bean?
on March 28th, 2011 | 2 answers

What springs to mind when I mention the word Dutch?
on February 12th, 2011 | 17 answers | 5 people like this

What is the capital of Trinidad + Tobago?
on February 8th, 2011 | One answer

What is Erathostenes' sieve?
on February 8th, 2011 | One answer

Have you been weepy in the last 36 months? If so, how come?
on January 26th, 2011 | 4 answers

What do you need to make stuffed animals?
on December 30th, 2010 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What sort of music do you enjoy listening to the most? Why?
on December 30th, 2010 | 6 answers | 2 people like this

What is your favourite Sunday roast?
on December 30th, 2010 | 2 answers

What is your # 1 New Year's Resolution for 2011?
on December 30th, 2010 | 4 answers

What springs to mind when I mention the number 83?
on December 30th, 2010 | 11 answers | 1 person likes this

Name a famous explorer.
on December 30th, 2010 | 7 answers | 1 person likes this

Is 147 a prime number, or not?
on December 30th, 2010 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

How many words can you make out of Christmas pudding?
on December 30th, 2010 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention Christmas?
on November 27th, 2010 | 13 answers | 1 person likes this

Do you prefer day trips on buses or proper holidays?
on November 13th, 2010 | 4 answers

What is the origin of "turning over a new leaf"?
on November 11th, 2010 | One answer | 1 person likes this

What sort of car do you own?
on November 10th, 2010 | 9 answers

Did Val Doonican ever release a vocal version of the theme of The Last of the Summer Wine?
on November 8th, 2010 | no answers

Here's the first of a dozen new number questions for a new decade. What springs to mind when I mention the number 53?
on October 22nd, 2010 | 5 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention the magic key?
on October 22nd, 2010 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Are the dieresis and the umlaut used in the same way?
on June 3rd, 2010 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

What springs to mind when I mention the word daft?
on June 3rd, 2010 | 6 answers | 3 people like this

What are the names of all the London Underground lines, and what are their colours?
on June 3rd, 2010 | 2 answers

Do any of you remember the hustle by Van McCoy?
on June 3rd, 2010 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Name a word for which it is difficult to find a rhyme.
on June 3rd, 2010 | 6 answers | 1 person likes this

What are tertiary colours?
on June 3rd, 2010 | 2 answers

Do you enjoy solving Sudoku and/or Kakuro?
on June 3rd, 2010 | 3 answers

Are any of you out there going on holiday this year? If not, how will you be using your leisure time instead?
on June 1st, 2010 | One answer

Name something you would find in a dining-room.
on June 1st, 2010 | 7 answers

Are you goping on holiday this year?
on June 1st, 2010 | 2 answers

How many words can you make out of uncomfortable? You may use words of as few letters as you wish.
on June 1st, 2010 | 2 answers

What songs are suitable for the month of July?
on June 1st, 2010 | One answer

For what time of year is the Toreador's Song suitable?
on June 1st, 2010 | One answer

Have you ever tried your hand at playing tunes on the ukulele?
on May 28th, 2010 | 3 answers | 2 people like this

What songs are suitable for the first week of June?
on May 10th, 2010 | One answer

How did the slang phrase 'talk 19 to the dozen' originate?
on April 28th, 2010 | no answers

Have you ever taken a trip on a boat?
on April 28th, 2010 | 5 answers

How many words can you make out of informal gathering? I will only accept words of 6 letters or more.
on April 28th, 2010 | One answer

At breakfast time, do you prefer listening to the radio or listening to cassette tapes or just singing to yourself?
on April 28th, 2010 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What songs are suitable for the first week of May?
on April 28th, 2010 | 5 answers

Is 1935 divisible by 45?
on April 28th, 2010 | 4 answers

Name something little kids should be taught from an early age.
on March 22nd, 2010 | 5 answers | 2 people like this

How many words (as few letters as you fancy) can you make out of unaccompanied?
on March 22nd, 2010 | 2 answers

How will you spend Easter weekend?
on March 22nd, 2010 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

If you were in the penalty box, which websites would you consider using instead?
on March 22nd, 2010 | 4 answers | 1 person likes this

Would saying that I don't care if another person said nothing of the sort be disrespectful?
on March 4th, 2010 | no answers

What songs are suitable for Easter?
on March 4th, 2010 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Do you think Easter weekend should be used for vocational activities, household ones, educational ones or leisure ones?
on March 4th, 2010 | One answer | 1 person likes this

How many words can you make out of succinct?
on March 4th, 2010 | 4 answers

How would you feel if you were singing a song (e.g. Toreador's Song) and someone says 'you know damn well I don't like that tune!!!'
on March 4th, 2010 | 2 answers | 2 people like this

Are you looking forward to the lighter evenings?
on February 17th, 2010 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

Are you looking forward to Valentine's Day? If so, why?
on February 13th, 2010 | 2 answers | 1 person likes this

How many words can you make out of daily living responsibilities?
on February 11th, 2010 | 2 answers

Give me an example of a prank 999 call.
on January 20th, 2010 | 2 answers

Are you looking forward to 2010? If so, why?
on December 27th, 2009 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

What is the lowest common denominator of 2, 3 and 5?
on December 12th, 2009 | 2 answers

What springs to mind when I mention the number 193?
on December 4th, 2009 | 7 answers | 1 person likes this

First of 5 number questions for Crimbo. What springs to mind when i mention the number 93?
on December 4th, 2009 | One answer | 1 person likes this

When do you need to count to ten?
on December 4th, 2009 | 2 answers

What would you like to be doing, travel-wise, in 2010?
on December 4th, 2009 | One answer

What is the first 11-letter word which comes to mind?
on December 4th, 2009 | 7 answers | 4 people like this

What springs to mind when I mention the word transparent?
on November 18th, 2009 | 3 answers | 1 person likes this

Name a famous Bruce.
on November 18th, 2009 | 25 answers | 12 people like this

Are you looking forward to your birthday this year?
on November 2nd, 2009 | 4 answers

How many Beatles albums can you think of?
on October 31st, 2009 | 4 answers | 2 people like this

Would you like to have a Christmas tree in your bedroom?
on October 28th, 2009 | One answer

Name a food associated with Christmas.
on October 27th, 2009 | 20 answers | 2 people like this

Can you recommend me a recipe for Christmas pudding, please, given that the festive season is imminent?
on October 27th, 2009 | no answers

What's the weather like today?
on October 27th, 2009 | 7 answers | 3 people like this