The phrase "asked during the first" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a question or inquiry made at the beginning of an event, meeting, or series of discussions.
Example: "The question was asked during the first session of the conference, prompting a lively discussion among the participants."
Alternatives: "inquired at the outset" or "questioned in the initial".
"What is a 'weekend?'" Violet Crawley, the Dowager Countess of Grantham, famously asked during the first season of Downton Abbey, set in 1912.
Asked during the first debate to outline "the lessons of Iraq," McCain said, "I think the lessons of Iraq are very clear: that you cannot have a failed strategy that will then cause you to nearly lose a conflict".
The first question (#43 – hinctnt) was asked during the first three rounds of the survey.
There's also the question of what Obama and Romney will be asked during the first debate.
A subset of participants was asked during the first year of the trial what they used to wash their vagina.
To gain insight into the main goals homeless youths would like to attain, they are asked during the first interview to report three important personal goals for the next nine months.
"I wonder if there's any event you can recall that had to do with names?" Mrs. Sakaki asked during the second session.
I was surprised when one of my students asked during the second section, "Can you give us the homework answers?" It seemed to me that many students had not come to the discussion section to learn the lecture concepts, but rather to just be told how to do their homework.
Even the inane questions asked during the second presidential debate reflected inability by the panel of reporters to distinguish myth from reality and information from entertainment.
We are already there - when he was asked during the third debate about those he would appoint to the Supreme Court, Trump responded, citing Justice Ginsburg's "very inappropriate statements" and declaring (through a recreation of history) that she was "forced to apologize" for her comments.
The OBA voucher questions were asked during the second visit.
