"nonsense question" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a question that has no meaningful answer or is impossible to answer. For example: "What's the square root of the number 6,984,456? That's a nonsense question - the number is not a perfect square."
It's a nonsense question but that doesn't stop the mini-men from asking it.
"That's a nonsense question," Jackson said of the fourth quarter conjecture, then joked about keeping Bryant on the bench.
It was a tired and predictable ploy when he tried it on Wolf Blitzer Thursday — he tried to deflect a question on his attacks by calling it a "nonsense question" — and Blitzer didn't back down.
Chick asks some rambling nonsense question.
We think of that as a nonsense question today, but it is fundamental.
Part B is a nonsense question, asking me to come up with an answer based on my first answer.
We're alerted in the opening pages, when Olympia sends her 4-year-old daughter into "stitches" by asking her nonsense questions.
On "Match Game," with Gene Rayburn as host, contestants would try to match answers to nonsense questions with a panel of celebrities, who offered racy quips and putdowns.
That earns him the right to demand that we apply his sun cream, say – or in another participative nugget, get interviewed by him for a job then are sacked off when we answer his nonsense questions imperfectly.
Q&A) edition of Girl News, deleted the redundant or annoying questions (and the overlong, nonsense questions, like, are you making fun of me?), saved half for later, and here are the rest… Girlsplained!
We excluded "nonsense questions" that did not assess student understanding of science (e.g., "Which of the following individuals wrote your textbook?") and poorly stated questions that could not be easily interpreted by the raters.
