Question Quest

I was looking through Willard R. Espy's _The Game of Words_ and encountered a section entitled 'What is the Question?'. The section describes a word game in which the first player gives an answer, and then the other players supply a question. The answer/question format is similar to the TV game Jeopardy!, except that there are no 'right' or 'wrong' questions. The goal is to provide a witty, silly, erudite, or other unexpected question, rather than an 'obvious' question. For example, for the answer 'hinge', the question might be 'What does a mixed-up horse say?'. Come up with questions for any or all of the ten answers given below (the answers were found by randomly flipping through a dictionary). Spoiler spaces probably wouldn't be needed. Punsters are encouraged to contribute.

1. Bacteria 2. The Middle East 3. Deerstalker 4. Duplicate 5. Takamatsu 6. Biweekly 7. Halftone 8. Logical Positivism 9. Sumptuous 10. Vinegar

Carl G.

Here are a couple:

4. Duplicate = What is the plural of copycat?

10. Vinegar = What is the common name for Lepisosteus vinea?

Whisperer?

What do you do when the priest says you've done wrong and must make things right, but you don't really agree with him?

How do you describe that filthy water in your flooded

Thought I'd chip in with a couple of oldies (both quoted from PDQ Bach's 'Knock Knock':

9-W: Do you spell your name with a V, Mr Wagner? Dr Livingstone, I presume: What is your full name, Dr Presume?

Carl Ginnow answers:

1. What was the sequel to 'Flying Down te Ria?' 2. What lies between the Northeast and the Southeast? 3. What do you call someone who hunts down all the beer he can find, and thus gets so fat that his belt breaks? 4. What did you say, what did you say? 5. Name a Japanese carpeting company. 6. What did the anemic stockbroker do? 7. What do you get when one of your stereo speakers is broken? 8. What philosophy does a sensible anode follow? 9. What's the differenceptuous if you start adding instead? 10. What would be a bad thing to name a new kind of fly-trap after?

IIRC this pastime was popularized on Ernie Kovacs' TV show back in the 1950s. One I remember is:

Answer: He shot down six German planes.

Question: Why did Hans Schmidt get kicked out of the Luftwaffe?

'Carl G.' wrote

<Snip> 'What is the Question?'. <Snip>

What ten words or phrases might Carl G submit as answers to a question in answer to his 'What is the Question?' question?

1. Bacteria 2. The Middle East 3. Deerstalker 4. Duplicate 5. Takamatsu 6. Biweekly 7. Halftone 8. Logical Positivism 9. Sumptuous 10. Vinegar

What do they call the big kitchen behind the school lunch hall?

What's the last thing you hear before someone says 'gesundheit' in Japan?

How often should there be a Pride Parade in San Francisco?

What is the closest Roseanne Barr ever came to the correct note while singing the National Anthem?

What do you call the belief that you're always right?

If you had a wholetuous and you ate mostuous, how much would you have left?

If you ordered Fish 'n' chips and took out all the things that might be bad for you, what would you be eating?