Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, July 2011 source ↗
Heights. For Children in Need, I had to abseil off the Orbit in the Olympic Park. It was the most terrifying thing I’ve done.
Becoming deaf and blind, which is what happened to my father.
That fear becomes too great.
Naming my greatest fear, because then I’ll have to admit it, won’t I?
A long summer’s evening on the front porch with my wife, Judith, watching the hawks circling overhead and the sun disappearing through the trees.
Charles Osgood, Gloria Steinem, Bob Schieffer, Caroline Lucas, Monica Lewinsky, Malala Yousafzai
Search the directory for somebody in particular.