And then the question guaranteed to cause squirming – how the applicant would assess their own socio-economic background.
They worry, as do all parents, about their kid's future, and they know a prestigious answer to the "Where did you go to school?" question guarantees, rightly or wrongly, a lifetime of opportunity and respect for their child.
"Love Wins" was starting arguments even before anyone had read it, thanks to a promotional video asking a question guaranteed to inflame some evangelicals: "Will only a select few people make it to heaven, and will billions and billions of people burn forever in hell?" (Or, more succinctly: "Gandhi's in hell? He is?") Bell's answer: "The good news is that love wins".
Asking his opinion about anything personal is always fraught with danger, but this question guarantees that you'll be aggravated by anything that comes out of his mouth.
I don't think for a moment that Bennett is blandly licensing or endorsing paedophilia: what he does is raise disturbing questions, guaranteed to rattle the Mrs Grundys of this world, about its provenance and its possible consequences.
The three men on the panel got easy questions guaranteed to provoke a funny response.
During live broadcasts, there are tough questions, softball questions and questions guaranteed to yield no useful information whatsoever.
Questions guaranteed to yield no useful information whatsoever: Those are questions about career plans, personnel changes and personal feelings.
These are questions guaranteed to get you funny looks when you pop them, especially in a gathering of wassail-soaked relatives.
If we are bound to our thinking process for our reference points of reality, we will ask only those questions guaranteed to keep attention on analysis, cause and effect and conceptual evaluation.
If I could offer you free of charge 5 questions guaranteed to improve the quality of your life, make you happier, less likely to get into arguments, more likely to reach your goals and be more popular with other people, would you be interested in hearing them?
