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, August 2013 source ↗
Deplore is a heavy word. I don’t deplore it but I constantly feel the pull of my old Midwestern ways of eating. Boy, can I put some pancakes away.
Fear and all of its consequences.
I can always see two points of view, which makes it hard to have a row.
I’m argumentative.
The susceptibility to ideology or tribalism.
A baseball pitcher.
That the Proust Questionnaire will continue to be used by lazy, overworked journalists for another century or so (since you asked …).
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.
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.
I admire the mother of my children a great deal, because she’s interesting, smart and funny.
Adrian Dunbar, Alison Steadman, Angela Griffin, Audra McDonald, Carrie Fisher, Charlotte Church
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