Finally nailing being on time.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 July 2026 source ↗
What would you like to be remembered for?
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Which living person do you most admire, and why?
Values & belief
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What did you want to be when you were growing up?
Identity & self
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What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
Daily life
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Which trait do you most dislike in yourself?
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Values & belief
Originally asked
Vogue, to one guest at a time, on camera, 73 Questions
A recurring legacy prompt in Vogue's 73 Questions, appearing with only minor wording changes.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
By my friends as hopefully someone who was a good friend, or at least amusing, but I don’t need to be remembered by people I don’t know.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 March 2018 source ↗
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Bozoma Saint John
Marketing executive; former chief marketing officer of Netflix
As the biggest, brightest, most bodacious badass that ever lived.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 7 October 2017 source ↗
In a photo album of just one family.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 October 2023 source ↗
Daryl McCormack
Irish actor
For being joyful.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 February 2023 source ↗
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Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 March 2018 source ↗
A baseball pitcher.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 March 2018 source ↗
If one could shut off the modern world and all the information that flows, not necessarily into your brain but at your face, and doesn’t benefit anything or make one better informed.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 March 2018 source ↗
How long do we have?
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗
The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2013 source ↗
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