I could give you other reasons, but the overwhelming truth is that I am feeling lazy. It's a new experience for me. And I worry. It might become habit. But, whatever the reason, I am rerunning a post from 6.5 years ago. I hope that many of you will answer the ten questions. If you answered then, I hope you will answer again to reflect how you feel now. I have changed some of my answers. You will see the comparison below. If you also feel differently now, please share the changes, if you care to. Here we go.
I became enamored of this list back when I regularly watched a local public TV show called Inside the Actors Studio. James Lipton, the host, finished each interview with ten rapidfire questions. I've been thinking about these queries this past week as I gathered up the information for my tax return. I remembered how many famous people, in answering Question 9, gave the answer I would give: Accountant.
Here is Lipton's list:
These questions are supposed to reveal things about the respondent that don't come out in a normal Q&A. I don't think that's necessarily true, but I like them nonetheless.
Lipton claimed to have based his questions on those of French talk-show host Bernard Pivot. My research reveled that Pivot's list was similar, but included three questions that Lipton left out. I include them here for those who want to earn extra credit:
11. What is your favorite drug?
12. Who would you like to see on a new banknote?
13. If you were reincarnated as some other plant or animal, what would it be?
Here are my answers:
I became enamored of this list back when I regularly watched a local public TV show called Inside the Actors Studio. James Lipton, the host, finished each interview with ten rapidfire questions. I've been thinking about these queries this past week as I gathered up the information for my tax return. I remembered how many famous people, in answering Question 9, gave the answer I would give: Accountant.
Here is Lipton's list:
Questionnaire
- What is your favorite word?
- What is your least favorite word?
- What turns you on?
- What turns you off?
- What sound or noise do you love?
- What sound or noise do you hate?
- What is your favorite curse word?
- What profession other than your own would you like to attempt?
- What profession would you not like to do?
- If Heaven exists, what would you like to hear God say when you arrive at the Pearly Gates?
These questions are supposed to reveal things about the respondent that don't come out in a normal Q&A. I don't think that's necessarily true, but I like them nonetheless.
Lipton claimed to have based his questions on those of French talk-show host Bernard Pivot. My research reveled that Pivot's list was similar, but included three questions that Lipton left out. I include them here for those who want to earn extra credit:
11. What is your favorite drug?
12. Who would you like to see on a new banknote?
13. If you were reincarnated as some other plant or animal, what would it be?
Here are my answers:
My 3/2019 answers:
- Yes
- N**ger
- Traveling
- Bigotry
- Happy children playing
- Angry shouting
- Asshole, better yet in Italian Stronzo
- Jazz pianist, not that I could ever attempt it
- Accounting
- "You have to go back. There's been a mistake."
- Italian coffee in the morning, Chassagne Montrachet in the evening, chocolate anytime.
- Ray Charles
- Lioness
My 8/2025 answers:
1. Baby
2. N--ger
3. Art
4. Hatred
5. Children laughing
6. Angry shouting
7. Asshole
8. Jazz pianist
9. Professional chef
10. "Even though you did not believe in me, you are welcome here."
11. Chocolate
12. Ray Charles and/or Louis Armstrong
13. A Cherry Tree
Okay. Now it's your turn to take the quiz. Please answer BEFORE you hear the answers of some of Lipton's famous guests here.
