Questioning Title - Television Tropes & Idioms

This is a specific type of title that poses a question to the reader. This question may relate to the Arc Words in some way, but need not. Depending on the writer, the answer may be explicitly given, implied, or left ambiguous.

In Hollywood, using such titles is considered bad luck and many writers and studios try to avoid using them (the few exceptions, such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, do things such as drop the question mark to avoid being cursed).

See also Driving Question. And as always, remember that if you Ask a Stupid Question..., you will Get A Stupid Answer.

Contrast Excited Show Title! and Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name!.

Examples?

Nani ga Anime ya Manga no shin kinou?

Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu which originally didn't have the "Fumoffu" bit until the creators realized people were confusing it with the first season of the show (titled Full Metal Panic!). Also sort of a Word Salad Title.
Kore wa Zombie desu ka?

Is this Art?

And When Did You Last See Your Father?◊

What do you listen in Audio Play?

The Firesign Theatre's comedy album, How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?

What Comic Books are up for?

Captain America: Who Will Wield The Shield, a comic book arc.
Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Alan Moore's closing chapter for Silver Age Superman.
Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader?

How is that Fan Fic you're reading?

Can You Imagine That?

A Film, is it?

What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
Can Hieronymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness?
Dude, Where's My Car?
Is Paris Burning?
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Quo Vadis?
Shall We Dance?
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
What?, a film directed by Roman Polanski.
- One critic said the title also worked as a review of the movie itself.
What About Bob?
What Did You Do In the War, Daddy?
What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice?
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Whatever Happened to Solange?
What Price Glory?
What Price Hollywood?
What's New, Pussycat?
What's So Bad About Feeling Good?
What's Up, Doc?
What's Up, Tiger Lily?
What the Bleep Do We Know, a ~~propaganda vehicle for a New Age cult~~film directed by William Antz.
Where's Poppa?
Who Framed Roger Rabbit??
- Also the book it was based on, Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow?
Who Slew Auntie Roo?
Who's Minding the Mint?
Who's Minding the Store?
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
Why Did I Get Married?
What's the Matter with Helen?

How to read Literature?

What Is The What by Dave Eggers is a biography on a survivor of the Rwanda genocide.
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Philip K. Dick is about a bounty hunter that chases robots.
Where's Wally?/Waldo?
The Imponderables series of trivia/reference books, with titles like When Do Fish Sleep? and Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?
Mary Stewart's first novel, Madam, Will You Talk?
Whos Afraid Of Beowulf by Tom Holt.
"Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell (the basis for the movie The Thing (1982))
How Much for Just the Planet? by John M. Ford
Who Censored Roger Rabbit (and all its sequels, as well as the movie adaptation in the Film section)
Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
Where's My Cow? by Terry Pratchett

What are you on watching Live-Action Television?

Are You Smarter Than a Fifth Grader?
Are You Being Served?
Car 54, Where Are You?
Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? and the various games titles.
What's My Line?
Who the (Bleep) did I Marry?
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
Doctor Who, a question which has taken over 47 years to answer.
Who's the Boss?
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Or, how many Bald Jokes can we tell?
Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads?

What is that Music you're listening to?

Who's Next.
- They also had Who are You
"Where Is the Love?" by The Black Eyed Peas.
"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"
Who stole the cookies from the cookie jar?
"Do They Know It's Christmas?"
Deep Purple, Who Do We Think We Are?
"Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?"
Supertramp, Crisis? What Crisis?
"Who'll Stop the Rain?" and "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
"What Do You Want from Life?", The Tubes
"Do You Hear What I Hear?"
"Are We Here?" by Orbital.