11.   Hewitt, a lawyer educated at Harvard and the University of Michigan who spent six years in the Reagan administration, is not given to dumb questions.

12.   I asked him if he was ready, but that was a dumb question because he was ready.

13.   It was a dumb question, like asking whether Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a law enforcement officer or a headline addict.

14.   People who want to ask a lot of dumb questions or argue with what everybody knows is Standard Procedure.

15.   Some companies voice the fear that opening conference calls to ill-informed investors and reporters would lead to dumb questions.

16.   Some sportswriters get to stab and slash a coach who treated them like children constantly asking the same dumb questions over and over again.

17.   The potential date would sit on a stool and ask three potential suitors really dumb questions.

18.   The Super Bowl is where dumb questions are not only tolerated, they are almost encouraged in a perverse way.

19.   The stars complain about dumb questions and enduring an endless parade of media faces.

20.   What a dumb question!