'ponder a question' is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to suggest that someone should think carefully and deeply about a particular question. For example, "If you could have one superpower, what would it be? Ponder this question and make your choice wisely."
The ingenious detective Sherlock Key is brought in to ponder a question: Is what Debussy is doing criminal or merely creative?
She can crank out as many as 30 items a day, colleagues said, but has been known to ponder a question for months, seeking to phrase it perfectly.
She also took a minute to ponder a question she called "impossible to answer:" Which is more exciting, today's inaugural festivities or the recent Golden Globe victory for "Girls"?
So while they wait for 2011 to arrive, Ford's chief executive, Alan Mulally, and its chairman, William Clay Ford Jr., have time to ponder a question: Do they think Toyota will be satisfied with "good enough"?
The particulars of that accident caused me to ponder a question for years: If you knew something catastrophic had happened to your family and you were hovering between life and death and could choose, what would you do?
I stand before this couple and ponder a question for which there is no answer: how can paint -- just colored goo -- convey such heart-breaking emotion and such profound compassion?
Sitting across from Rippetoe, Driben pondered a question about his feelings on the recent honors.
In fact, the accounting rule makers are even now pondering a question that may be important to Enron.
At 56, Simon wears cool trainers and often tugs at her amazing dark-brown, corkscrew hair in a child-like manner when pondering a question.
When pondering a question about how frequently he would use Rivera down the stretch, Girardi said, "He's not saving anything for 2014".
The show left me pondering a question that has been floating in the air since the 1980s vogue of recordings of Broadway shows sung by opera stars.
