Thread: The Weird Questions People Have Asked Different Professionals

Eric Lund

Sep 26, 2021 8:00 AM EDT

They say there are no stupid questions, but we're not so sure about that. This Imgur user compiled a long list of the weirdest questions different professionals across a wide variety of fields have been asked over the years. As the original poster notes, they ask professionals what the "weirdest" questions they get are and not the "dumbest" because even a seemingly silly question can have an interesting answer, and the results are truly fantastic. Here are some weird questions people had for professionals of varying fields, from the couple who asked how to properly use bear spray before deploying it on themselves like bug spray to the guy who asked a meteorologist how powerful of a fan he might need to turn an entire tornado's path around. Some of these are quite innocent — what child doesn't (at least for some time) assume their teachers live in the school? Others actually appeared to spark debate among the experts the questions were posed to, like what would a T-Rex taste like if humans could actually cook one.

While these inquiries might be weirder than dumb, here are some straight-up dumb questions people were asked. For some more professionalism, here are sciences judged by lickability.