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PUB DATE | WEEK | TITLE | SYNOPSIS | THEMES | LINKS TO THIS CONTEST | WINNER | LINKS TO RESULTS OF THIS CONTEST (usually published 2-4 Weeks later) |
May 11, 1997 | 217 | NO QUESTION ABOUT IT | Come up with truly stupid questions. | QUE | Text file | Contest image | ||
June 1, 1997 | 220 | RSVP | Provide an answer to any of the dumb questions from Week 217. | QUE | Text file | Contest image | ||
January 25, 1998 | 254 | DOUBLE JEOPARDY! | Take any sentence appearing anywhere in today's Washington Post, and make up a question to which it could be a plausible answer. | WAS QUE | Text file | Contest image | ||
August 12, 2001 | 414 (LXXXI) | No Rest for the Query | Complete the provided rhetorical question by filling in the blanks. It must be a put-down. | QUE | Text file | Contest image | ||
August 19, 2001 | 415 (LXXXII) | Sentence Us to Death | Take any sentence appearing anywhere in today's Washington Post, and invent a question that it answers. | WAS QUE | Text file | Contest image | ||
January 27, 2002 | 438 (CV) | What's the Pun Line? | Ask a question and answer it, somewhere incorporating the name of a least one famous person. | QUE | Text file | Contest image | ||
January 12, 2003 | 488 (CLV) | No Rest for the Query | Come up with a vexing, funny question about life. | QUE | Text file | ||
October 5, 2003 | 526 | Conventional Wisdumb | Answer any of the provided questions. | QUE | Text file | ||
June 6, 2004 | 561 | Deform of a Question | Take any sentence appearing in The Washington Post or washingtonpost.com today through June 14, and make up a question to which the sentence could be an answer. | WAS QUE | Text file | ||
August 1, 2004 | 569 | Murphy's Lore | Give Eric Murphy advice he deserves on the provided questions. | QUE | Text file | ||
July 31, 2005 | 621 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article in washingtonpost.com anytime through Aug. 8 and supply a question it could answer. | WAS QUE | Text file | ||
February 5, 2006 | 648 | Caller IDiot | Name a product or company and supply a stupid question to ask the consumer hotline person. | BUS QUE | Text file | ||
June 18, 2006 | 667 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com anytime from now through June 26 and supply a question it could answer. | WAS QUE | Text file | Contest image | ||
March 25, 2007 | 706 | Questionable Journalism | Take any sentence that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from March 24 through April 2 and come up with a question it could answer. | WAS QUE | Text file | ||
October 20, 2007 | 736 | So, Should I Drive Like Your Brother? | Ask a car-related question that would make the Car Guys crack up. If you're not into cars, you can also post a question for advice columnist Ask Amy or etiquette columnist Miss Manners. | QUE | Text file | Post e-version | ||
May 31, 2008 | 767 | Questionable Journalism | Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in the Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from May 31 through June 9 and come up with a question it might answer. | WAS QUE | Text file | ||
June 6, 2009 | 820 | Be Mister Language Person | Supply a Mister Language Person-type question and answer. | LAN QUE | Text file | Contest image | ||
July 25, 2009 | 827 | Caller Idiot | Name a real product or company and supply a stupid question or complaint for the consumer hotline person. | BUS QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
December 12, 2009 | 847 | Questionable journalism | Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in The Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com from Dec. 11 through Dec. 21 and come up with a question it might answer. | WAS QUE | Text file | ||
May 22, 2010 | 870 | Let's play Nopardy | Describe any of the above phrases in the form of a question. | QUE | Text file | Post e-version | ||
July 17, 2011 | 928 | Play feature | Use the title of a movie as the answer to a riddle or other question. | MOV QUE | Text file | ||
November 6, 2011 | 944 | Uh, yeah, it's just you | Give us one or more "Is it just me" questions. | QUE | Text file | ||
March 11, 2012 | 962 | Questionable journalism | Take any sentence (or a major part of it) that appears in the Post or in an article on washingtonpost.com anytime from now through March 19 and supply a question it could answer. | WAS QUE | Text file | Post e-version | ||
October 6, 2013 | 1041 | What have you got to lose? | Answer a question, real or rhetorical, that appears in a song. | MUS QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
November 3, 2013 | 1045 | Songs for the asking | Take a sentence, phrase or title from a song and provide a funny question it might answer. | MUS QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
December 29, 2013 | 1053 | Questionable journalism | Quote an actual sentence, from The Washington Post, washingtonpost.com, or another print or online publication dated between Dec. 26 and Jan. 6, and follow it with a question that the sentence might answer. | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
July 6, 2014 | 1079 | Little piddle riddle | Ask a question and answer it with a rhyme. | POE QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
July 20, 2014 | 1081 | It's the stupidity, stupid | Write us stupid questions that will make us laugh. (Conversational text) | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
November 23, 2014 | 1099 | Questionable journalism | Take a sentence (or most of a sentence) that appears in an article in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com dated Nov. 20 through Dec. 1 (in print, any article from those days' papers), and make up a question that the sentence could answer. | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
February 28, 2016 | 1164 | 'Wait Wait' for us | Compose a multiple-choice question about a Ridiculous but True fact or event, with two entertaining wrong answers as well as the right one. One of the two wrong answers may be obviously untrue as long as it's funny. (Conversational text) | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
March 13, 2016 | 1166 | Questionable journalism | Take a sentence (or most of a sentence) that appears in text (not a headline) in The Washington Post or on washingtonpost.com dated March 10-21 and make up a question that the sentence could answer (Conversational text) | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
June 19, 2016 | 1180 | Strip search! | Find a line of text from any comic strip or panel that appears on the Post's comics pages or on washingtonpost.com/comics, dated anywhere between June 16 and June 27, and either (a) supply a question that the original line could answer, or (b) follow it with your own line of dialogue or reply. (Conversational text) | COM QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
October 30, 2016 | 1199 | We want some bad choices | Offer one or more funny Questions for Terrible People, as shown. | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
September 24, 2017 | 1246 | Questionable journalism | Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in The Post or another publication, in print or online, dated Sept. 21-Oct. 2, and pair it with a question it might answer. (Conversational text) | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
April 15, 2018 | 1275 | That is the question | Choose a line from Shakespeare (or a significant part of a line) and pair it with a question that the line could humorously answer. (Conversational text) | LIT QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
February 24, 2019 | 1320 | Questionable journalism | Find any sentence (or a substantive part of a sentence) that appears in the Post or another publication, in print or online, dated Feb. 21-March 4, and pair it with a question it might answer. | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | Beverley Sharp | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version |
June 23, 2019 | 1337 | Lidder me this: anagram riddles | Write a Q&A joke (or an A followed by a Q, if you're into "Jeopardy!") in which the punchline contains an anagram or one or more relevant words or names. | ANA JEO JOK QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
September 15, 2019 | 1349 | Revise and extend these remarks | Go to congress.gov/congressional-record and click on the PDF for any day's Congressional Record. Choose any sentence (or substantial part of one) and write a question that it could answer. | POL QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
May 10, 2020 | 1383 | Questionable Journalism | Choose any sentence (not a headline) in an article or ad in The Washington Post or another publication dated May 7 through May 18, and write a question it might humorously answer. (Conversational text) | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
May 17, 2020 | 1384 | Of course there are stupid questions! | Give us stupid questions, especially ones reflecting Our Current Situation. (Conversational text) | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
April 25, 2021 | 1433 | Questionable Journalism | Choose any sentence (not a headline!) in an article or ad in The Washington Post or another publication dated April 22 through May 3, and write a question it might humorously answer. (Conversational text) | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
October 3, 2021 | 1456 | The hunting of the snark | Ask an insulting rhetorical question in the form (or a variation) of "Is that your _______ or _______?" (Conversational text) | QUE | Text file | Contest image | Post e-version | ||
YEAR 31 BEGINS |