"activating questions" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to raise questions which will provoke the people you're speaking/writing to into thinking about a particular topic. For example: "Activating questions such as 'What would you be willing to do for a better world?' encourage people to reflect on their own values and beliefs."
The piece is concerned with raising questions about the relation between fact and fiction, activating those questions in peculiar ways — but the questions, not the answers, are what strike me as interesting.
This sensory information can help guide the decision to shift from activating to calming questions and decrease the potential for dysregulation.
Prior knowledge is activated and arising questions are addressed.
However, there is concern about some of these approaches due to considerations of possible long-term toxicities involving the activating agents as well as questions about whether it will be possible to activate all latently infected cells or not.
The biological significance of FGFR2 and FGFR3 being repressed in NSCLC cells in which the EGFR pathway is activated is a question not completely addressed herein.
In the absence of cytotoxic effects, it could be argued that the chemicals in question activated protooncogenes by a direct genotoxic mechanism.
More research is thus needed to clarify how Bax becomes activated, a central question in apoptosis research as indicated in the presentations of Doug Green and Tony Letai.
All of our analysis so far suggests that, following infection, the HIF pathway is activated, raising the question as to what is the role of HIF in the immune response of Drosophila.
It's just a question of, "What are we activating?" Every song, every movie, everything that we create, reinforces an idea.
The foreign affairs minister dead-batted a question posed by the ABC about whether activating Iranian intelligence could lead to Shia militias capturing or killing Australian citizens.
