'answer seriously' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to encourage someone to take a response or request seriously. For example, "Please answer my question seriously."
Kiehl said he had avoided complicated moral problems, such as the classic trolley dilemma, in which the subject is asked to choose whether to cause one person's death in order to save the lives of others in the path of a runaway trolley, because psychopaths might not understand the problem or wouldn't answer seriously.
How would I do that?" It is a good question — especially since some 12percentt of the workers in the food service industry are believed to be undocumented — and one we would like Mr. Romney and his fellow candidates to answer seriously.
Moreover, he suffers none of the anticipated toxicities, prompting him to grin, "Are you sure it's not placebo you're giving me?" Patients ask this from time to time, belying a real fear that their doctor has given up, so I answer seriously, "I promise you, I am treating you with the most intensive cocktail available".
The respondent is likely to figure he should throw away childish whims and answer seriously and maturely.
Leave it up to her whether she wants to answer seriously or keep it light-hearted.
Then we can take the answers seriously.
The tourism industry is taking the search for answers seriously.
The Trump view on this issue is widely shared among a large swath of Americans, and needs to be answered seriously.
In a conversation years ago about what "politics" would mean in the political philosopher Hannah Arendt's ideal city, where what she called "the social question" -- hunger, want, poverty -- had been solved or banished, one person answered seriously, "People would decide what plays to put on".
Recently, we asked Michael what he was scared of, and because he's a serious guy he answered seriously.
I then asked the biggest question of all, but Siri had tired of answering seriously by then.
