THEME: QUE

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
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