The phrase "across the question" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It is unclear when this phrase could be used, as it lacks context and does not form a coherent expression.
Example: "The discussion seemed to wander across the question of ethics, but never reached a conclusion."
Alternatives: "regarding the question" or "concerning the question".
I came across the question, "Who flew the Spirit of St Louis?" Which is a completely fine general knowledge question - easy if you know it, impossible if you don't - but it's not a quiz question.
Telepathic Connections Josh Goldsmith said he was browsing through a bookstore one day, lingering over the self-help titles offering chicken soup for whatever ails you, when he opened a book and came across the question: "Would you like to be able to read your lover's thoughts?" He took it to Cathy Yuspa, his professional and romantic partner, and they hashed over the idea.
With no clear front-runner emerging within a body that widely shares the conservative moral views of John Paul, the electoral fault lines are seen falling across the question of whether the next pontiff should be a European or whether he should come from the developing world where the Catholic church is experiencing its fastest growth and greatest challenges from other religions.
Then I stumbled across the "question of the week" in my online community newspaper: "Should public monies be used to fund private schools with explicit anti-gay policies?" Clicking on a link, I found a disturbing report titled "Georgia's Tax Dollars Help Finance Private Schools with Severe Anti-Gay Policies, Practices, & Teachings".
For the three raters, agreement ranged from 79%to97%7% across the questions.
We identified different non-hierarchical categories of responses to each workbook question, with some students' responses encompassing more than one category, and some responses incomplete; hence the number of responses reported varies across the questions.
They rattle off the names of presidents, the highest mountain and the deepest lake, but there is a persistent theme across the questions and answers: The date of Martin Luther King Jr's assassination, the date of Malcolm X's assassination, the date the first black man became the heavyweight champion of the world, the date of Alabama's violence in Selma and the bombing in Birmingham.
There was little heterogeneity across the questions about "trial design barriers".
Out of 1159 potential responses to questions 1 19, 86 (7%) were answered 'not applicable', these were distributed equally across the questions and omitted from the analysis.
Motivation scores for each of the selected factors were determined by taking the mean rating across the questions comprising that subscale.
The frequent counts of total items (similar to the item difficulties in this study) endorsed by examinees would not be overly distorted if we assume that the errors made by them were randomized across the questions.
