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"impromptu question" is a correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It refers to a question that is asked on the spot, without prior preparation or planning. Example: During the presentation, the speaker surprised us with an impromptu question about the company's future plans, catching us off guard.
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And while they waited on the hard shoulder for Halfpenny to arrive, Roberts and Warburton held an impromptu question and answer session with some fans on the social networking site.
The McCain/Palin campaign's effort to stifle editorial coverage of the candidate's meetings with world leaders comes a week after CBS News asked Palin an impromptu question about the AIG bailout, while Palin made an off-the-record stop at a Cleveland diner.
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President Obama grants many more media interviews than his predecessors, but holds far fewer impromptu question-and-answer sessions, according to data compiled by a professor who studies presidential interactions with the press.
As Mike Cameron entertained about 50 fans near the visiting dugout before Thursday's game, holding an impromptu question-and-answer session, he recognized the heckler who had called Mike Piazza a coward earlier in the week.
Later in the afternoon, the advocates finally got their audience with the governor when he agreed to an impromptu question-and-answer session outside his office in the Capitol.
The unusual impromptu question-and-answer session -- Mr. Obama usually slips quickly out of the Rose Garden after making such prepared statements -- reflects the deep pressure the president is under to address the high unemployment rate as the midterm elections quickly approach.
These allow the moderator to pose impromptu questions and get instant feedback from the audience.
Back in 1987, in an experiment not repeated, the newly appointed party chief (the late Zhao Ziyang) answered impromptu questions from reporters.
But Mr. Lee gamely took their impromptu questions, talking about recent plot turns on "Entourage," the HBO series on which he has a continuing role.
Your correspondent vividly recalls the exhilaration of that occasion in the Great Hall of the People, when the newly appointed party chief, Zhao Ziyang, raised glasses with foreign journalists and fielded impromptu questions in an unprecedented display of openness.
For her part, Mrs. Megawati is suspicious of the press, and recently her staff ruled that reporters covering her must stay at a distance and may not toss impromptu questions at her.
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