Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's The Q&A has retained this Proust-derived prompt from at least 2007 through 2026, and ABC independently put it to the Obamas in 2011.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2025 source ↗
I thought that I had lost for a reason, and I thought that I was a little unseasoned and immature, and I had — the way I made decisions my first term, I got a lot done, but I was better at doing what I wanted to do than listening to other people about what they thought I should be doing or how they thought I ought to be doing it.
I can’t deal with any level of stress.
Whenever I walk past an ice-cream shop, I just can’t not buy an ice-cream.
Punctuality (outside of work, of course).
Those who are both loyal and can cook.
That I’ll become a recluse with too many dogs.
Thank you notes I haven't written.
Cooking out with my closest friends and laughing until we are crying.
My niece, Petra Janney, who got her pilot’s license to rescue animals from rural kill shelters and have them placed with different pet adoption agencies.
I wish I always had the right word in the right moment at the right time and not two hours later in my car going home.
Adam Kay, Adam Lambert, Adele Parks, Adrian Dunbar, Al Franken, Alex Hassell
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