The answer is surprisingly complicated.
This is a specific type of title that poses a question to the reader or to a certain character. The question may relate to the work's Arc Words in some way, or it may be the Arc Words. 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 (with the few exceptions, such as Who Framed Roger Rabbit, often doing things such as dropping the question mark to avoid being cursed).
Many of these can be answered with a "no".
See also Driving Question. And as always, remember that if you Ask a Stupid Question..., you will Get a Stupid Answer.
Contrast Excited Title! Two-Part Episode Name!
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Anime and Manga?
- The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me?
- Didn't I Say to Make My Abilities Average in the Next Life?
- Dokkoida?!
- Do You Like Big Girls?
- Do You Love Your Mom and Her Two-Hit Multi-Target Attacks?
- 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.
- How Heavy Are the Dumbbells You Lift?
- Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
- Is Love the Answer?
- Is the Order a Rabbit?, and also present in the original title, Gochuumon wa Usagi desu ka?.
- Is This A Zombie? features at least one zombie, a necromancer, two vampires and a magical girl in the cast and the zombie is of the intelligent variety, prompting the question (because he's not the undead eat brains type.)
- Season 2 of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War added a question mark to reflect how the Duel of Seduction that the first season revolved around has less focus.
- Half of the episode titles in the original season of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha are worded as questions, such as "Is This a Mysterious Encounter?", because its Idiosyncratic Episode Naming required the word "nano" to be added at the end of every episode title in the original Japanese, which roughly translates to "isn't it?". Interestingly, the second season followed suit (at least until Episode 9) but didn't have any question episode titles.
- May I Ask for One Final Thing?
- My Part-Time Job Is at an Evil Organization?!
- Negima!?
- Pretty Cure:
- Futari wa Pretty Cure: The English title for Episode 3 is "Who's the New TA?".
- Go! Princess Pretty Cure: The title of Episode 4 is "Sparkling Kirara is Cure Twinkle?".
- Problem Children are Coming from Another World, aren't they?
- So I'm a Spider, So What? All of its episode titles follow a similar theme.
- WorldEnd: What Do You Do at the End of the World? Are You Busy? Will You Save Us? has no less than three questions to ask in its title.
- What Am I for Momotaro
- Who Killed Cock Robin?
- Why the Hell Are You Here, Teacher!?
- You Like Me, Not My Daughter?!
Art?
Asian Animation?
- Happy Heroes: The official English titles for a few of the Season 7 and 8 episodes translated by Miao Mi count as such:
- Season 7 episode 35, "Who Has Replaced Kalo?"
- Season 7 episode 42, "Who Reported Me Again?"
- Season 8 episode 19, "Which Is the Route?"
- Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf: Joys of Seasons episode 95, "Who Am I?". Officially, the title - at least in its native Chinese - doesn't have the question mark.
Audio Plays?
- The Firesign Theatre's comedy album, How Can You Be in Two Places at Once When You're Not Anywhere at All?
Comic Books?
- Captain America: Who Will Wield The Shield Bucky Barnes, although let's face it, Steve Rogers will be back.
- Superman
- Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? Alan Moore's closing chapter for Silver Age Superman. He got rebooted along with the rest of DC Comics during Crisis on Infinite Earths.
- What's So Funny About Truth, Justice and the American Way?
- Teen Titans: Who Is Donna Troy? (also Who is Wonder Girl? and Who is Troia? — unfortunately whenever the Titans found the answer, DC would change the question.)
- Whatever Happened to The Caped Crusader? Some silliness involving Darkseid and a trip around the Timey-Wimey Ball.
- What If?
Fanfiction?
- Anything for Family: The first chapter is titled "Where's Our Kid?".
- Within the Calvinverse, we have Can You Imagine That? and Which Way is Where?.
- The Empath: The Luckiest Smurf story "Who's That Smurfette?"
- Dungeon Keeper Ami: Loves these. Such as: Just how does any of this work?, Corruption? or A Better Plan?
- Nightmare or Nyx?: Questions the real identity of the pony known as Nyx, since she has had multiple identites in the past, whether she's still the villainous Nightmare, or not.
- Quizzical: Thweet Geniuth: What The Hay Was That?!.
- Sunsplit Saga: Multiple:
- Sunshipped: "I-YOU-BU-WHA--WHO THE HAY ARE YOU?!?!"
- Sunscarred: "Wait... what?"
- Sunshipped: "I-YOU-BU-WHA--WHO THE HAY ARE YOU?!?!"
- 'Oversaturated World: Group Precipitation: "Is It "Viceroy"?", a reference to the focus of the first half of the story, Ral Zarek, a variation on the Magic: The Gathering of the same name, who, in that universe, is an Izzet Viceroy.
- Story Shuffle 2: Double Masters: "Who's Afraid?", as a reference to the phrase "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?", and possibly the line "I Ain't Afraid of No Ghost" from the Ghostbusters theme song, as it deals with what's basically ghost wolves, but are more Living Memory.
- Steel Soul Saga: From Steel Spirit: "Input Functionality" when discussing a new song. Presumably, the "Ah", is actually "I", but it's spoken with a Funetik Aksent as typical for Apple Bloom and her family. Although, the question mark is likely more supposed to be due to Apple Bloom mentioning it as part of a question:
Scootaloo shrugged. "Alright. So, either of you catch that last Sapphire Shores album?"
"Was that 'Watch Mah Flank' or 'Sass Me Ah Dare Ya?'"
Film — Animated?
Film — Live-Action?
- ? Yes. Just the One-Letter Title, sorta... ?. It's a 2012 Hindi horror film.
- The AirZone Solution (by BBV Productions): The question mark is present in the on-screen title card, but omitted in most other official text including the video cover, etc.
- Any Questions for Ben?
- Are We There Yet?
- Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe And Find True Happiness?
- Can She Bake A Cherry Pie?
- Can You Ever Forgive Me?
- Casual Sex?
- Did You Hear About the Morgans?
- Does Humor Belong in Music?
- Do You Believe?
- Dude, Where's My Car? Right across the street.
- The Field Guide to Evil: One of the segments in this Anthology Film is titled "What Ever Happened to Panagas the Pagan?"
- Glen or Glenda
- Guess Who
- Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
- Hail Satan?
- If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?
- Is Paris Burning?
- Is This Love?:
- Love Is All You Need? (2016)
- Mad Monster Party
- Mans Favorite Sport
- O Brother, Where Art Thou? In a sepia-toned retelling of The Odyssey set during the Great Depression.
- Quo Vadis, Aida? — the film is about the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Bosnian Muslims by Bosnian Serbs; the title is a reference to Quo Vadis, a story of Roman persecution of Christians.
- Santa Who?
- Shall We Dance? (the 1996 Japanese movie and its American remake include the question mark, but not the 1937 movie of the same name)
- A Talking Cat!?!
- In an interesting example, the French release of A Time to Kill had its title become questioning (Le Droit de Tuer?; "The Right to Kill?") because its Vigilante Man plot was controversial with the extremely strong opposition to the death penalty in that country. The title didn't save the film's reception; one reviewer commented "Must we allow [director] Joel Schumacher the right to keep making films?" ("Faut-il laisser à Joel Schumacher le droit de filmer?")
- They Call Me Bruce?
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
- Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness
- Unacceptable?, a Canadian documentary film.
- Went the Day Well?
- What? (by Roman Polański).
- What About Bob?
- What About Juvenile Delinquency?
- What Did You Do In The War Daddy?
- What Ever Happened To Aunt Alice?
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
- What Happened to Monday
- What Have You Done to Solange?
- What Planet Are You From?
- What Price Hollywood?
- Whats Buzzin Cousin?
- What's Cooking?
- What's Eating Gilbert Grape
- What's in a Name?
- What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
- What's Love Got to Do with It? (2022)
- What's New Pussycat?
- Whats So Bad About Feeling Good?
- What's the Matter with Helen?
- What's the Worst That Could Happen?
- What's Up, Doc?
- What's Up, Tiger Lily?
- What's Your Number?
- What the #$*! Do We Know!?, a propaganda vehicle for a New Age cult— I mean, film— directed by William Antz.
- When Will I Be Loved
- Where Are My Children?
- Where Are We Going?
- Where Is The Friends Home?
- Where's Poppa?
- Where's Willie?
- Which Way To The Front?
- Who Am I (2014)
- Who Am I? (1998)
- Who Can Kill a Child?
- Who Done It? (1942 Abbott and Costello feature)
- Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit Christopher Lloyd in dark glasses and a hat.
- Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me?
- Who is Julia?
- Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
- Who Killed Captain Alex? We don't know, not even the director knows.
- Who Killed the Electric Car?
- Who Says I Cant Ride A Rainbow?
- Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed?
- Who's Harry Crumb?
- Who's Minding the Mint?
- Whos Minding The Store?
- Who's Singing Over There?
- Who's That Girl
- Who's That Knocking at My Door
- Why Be Good?
- Why Did I Get Married?
- Why Did I Get Married Too?
- Why Don't You Play in Hell?
- Why Him?
- Why Worry?
- Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?
- Would You Rather
Literature?
- Each installment of the All the Wrong Questions series is named after an actual (wrong) question a character or several characters ask in the story. The four main books in the series are Who Could That Be At This Hour?, When Did You See Her Last?, Shouldn't You Be in School?, and Why Is This Night Different From All Other Nights?.
- Can You Sue Your Parents for Malpractice? by Paula Danziger
- Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? by Dr. Seuss
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick is about a bounty hunter that chases robots.
- Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah
- Dungeon Engineer: The chapter, "Level Up?"
- How Much for Just the Planet? by John M. Ford
- The Imponderables series of trivia/reference books, with titles like When Do Fish Sleep? and Why Do Dogs Have Wet Noses?
- One Legends of Localization book has a Questioning Subtitle: press start to translate: This is what happens when you let a computer translate a video game?
- Mary Stewart's first novel, Madam, Will You Talk?
- A French series of pocketbook reference works with the general title Que sais-je ? ("What Do I Know?").
- Qu'est-ce que le Tiers État? ("What Is the Third Estate?"), the 1789 pamphlet by Emmanuel-Joseph Sieyès that helped set in motion the French Revolution.
- Quo Vadis by Henryk Sienkiewicz.
- Isaac Asimov:
- "Does a Bee Care?"
- "...That Thou Art Mindful of Him" is the end of a quote which asks a question, so you'd expect this title to also end in a question mark, but it doesn't.
- The Master Key: The first section, "Who Knows?".
- Roys Bedoys: There are stories called “What’s Your Talent, Roys Bedoys?”, “Can You Lick Your Elbow, Roys Bedoys?”,“‘CAN’ You Play with Me?”, “Where Are You, Roys Bedoys?”, “What’s Your New Year’s Resolution, Roys Bedoys?”, and “What’s That Smell, Roys Bedoys?”.
- There Is No Epic Loot Here, Only Puns: The chapters:
- They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy.
- What Is The What by Dave Eggers is a biography on a survivor of the Rwanda genocide.
- What Is to Be Done? (original title: Chto delat'?), the 1902 political pamphlet by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.
- What Pet Should I Get? by Dr. Seuss
- What Makes Sammy Run? by Budd Schulberg.
- What's the Matter with Kansas? by Thomas Frank, which argues that rural Kansas residents are voting against their financial self-interest when they vote Republican. The title is ironically taken from an 1896 Republican editorial.
- "What Was I Afraid Of?", a story in The Sneetches and Other Stories by Dr. Seuss
- "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?", a short story by Joyce Carol Oates.
- Where My Hat Is At?
- Where's My Cow? by Terry Pratchett
- Where's Wally/Waldo? On every page of the book, somewhere.
- Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (and all its sequels, as well as the movie adaptation in the Film section)
- "Who Goes There?" by John W. Campbell (the basis for the movie The Thing (1982))
- Who is Julia? by Barbara Harris.
- Several reference works with variations of the title Who Is Who?, even if they sometimes leave out the question mark.
- Who Killed the Robins Family?, a mystery novel by Adler and Chastain which offered a prize for the solution. The following links to a list. http://whokilledtherobinsfamily.blogspot.com/
- Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? by Pierre Bayard. (Not who you think if you're read The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, since the book is one massive External Retcon).
- Who Moved My Cheese?
- Who's Afraid of Beowulf? by Tom Holt.
- Who Wet My Pants
- Why Me?, a novel in the Dortmunder series by Donald E. Westlake.
- Why Not Me?
- Why Didn't They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie
Live-Action TV?
- Are You Afraid of the Dark?
- Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?
- Are You Being Served?
- Not Burke's Law itself, but this was used for its Idiosyncratic Episode Naming (as in, "Who Killed (Character)?)"
- Can We Get Married?
- Can You Hear My Heart?
- Car 54, Where Are You?
- Doctor Who doesn't have a question mark in its actual title, but the question "Doctor who?" has approached Arc Words territory at times.
- As for actual episodes, there's Series 12's "Can You Hear Me?"
- Have You Been Paying Attention?
- Heads Or Tails
- Hey You! What If..., with the individual episode titles being a phrase to finish the question, such as "You Could Levitate?" or "The Earth Was Flat?"
- How Clean is Your House?
- How Do You Want Me?
- Iss Pyaar Ko Kya Naam Doon? (translates to "What Name Shall I Give This Love?")
- Is It Legal?
- It's Worth What?
- Kamen Rider Drive has every episode title be a question-"What Is A Kamen Rider?", "Who Stole That Woman's Smile?", etc.
- Our Miss Brooks: The episode "Space, Who Needs It?".
- Red or Black?
- What About Brian
- Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?
- What's My Line?
- What's Up Fox?
- What Would You Do?
- What Would You Do? (Nickelodeon)
- Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego
- Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego
- Who Are You?
- Who Do You Think You Are?
- Whodunnit? (UK)
- Who Is America?
- Who's Still Standing?
- Who the (Bleep) did I Marry?
- Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Who Wants to Be a Superhero?
- Who's the Boss?
- Whose Line Is It Anyway?
- Would I Lie to You?
- You Rang, M'Lord?
Music?
- The bands ? And The Mysterians (from the hit "96 Tears") and Therapy? are perhaps the best known groups with a question mark in their title. You can also include the Christian Rock (with some mainstream success) group Delirious?.
- Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - Devo.
- "Ain't It Strange?" - Patti Smith, from Radio Ethiopia.
- "Ain't It Funky Now?" - James Brown, available on Star Time.
- "Ain't That a Groove" - James Brown, available on Star Time.
- "Ain't That a Shame" - Fats Domino
- "Ain't She Sweet", covered by The Beatles, among others.
- "Am I Evil?" - Diamond Head.
- "Are We Here?" - Orbital.
- "Are You Coming With Me?" - Madness, from The Rise & Fall.
- "Are You Gonna Go My Way" by Lenny Kravitz.
- "Are You Happy? (Questions)" - Jhariah
- "Are You Hung Up?" - Frank Zappa, from We're Only in It for the Money.
- Are You Experienced - Jimi Hendrix.
- "Baby, How Long?" - Howlin' Wolf, from The Howlin' Wolf Album.
- "Can I Get a Witness" - Marvin Gaye
- "Can I Sit Next to You, Girl?" - AC/DC, from TNT.
- "Can You Feel It?" - The Jackson 5.
- "Can You Feel the Love Tonight?" - Elton John.
- "Can You Get To That?" - Funkadelic, from Maggot Brain.
- "Can You Hear Me?" - David Bowie, from Young Americans.
- "Can You Hear the Music?" - The Rolling Stones, from Goats Head Soup.
- "Can You Rock This?" - Run–D.M.C., from King of Rock.
- "Can't Nobody Love You?" - The Zombies, from Begin Here.
- "Caught, Can I Get a Witness?" - Public Enemy, from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
- "Could You Be Loved?" - Bob Marley, from Uprising.
- Crisis? What Crisis? - Supertramp.
- "Did She Mention My Name?" - Gordon Lightfoot
- "Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?" - The Lovin' Spoonful
- "Didja Get Any Onya?" - Frank Zappa, from Weasels Ripped My Flesh
- "Does Anybody Really Know What Time it Is?" - Chicago Einstein did.
- Does Humor Belong in Music? - Frank Zappa.
- "Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour (On The Bedpost Overnight)?" - Lonnie Donegan.
- "Do I Wanna Know?" - Arctic Monkeys.
- "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band Aid Yes, but they don't care.
- "Do You Believe In Magic" - The Lovin' Spoonful
- "Do You Know the Way to San Jose" - Dionne Warwick
- "D'you Know What I Mean?" - Oasis, from Be Here Now.
- "Do You Like My New Car?" - Frank Zappa, from his album Fillmore East, June 1971.
- "Do You Love Me?" - Nick Cave, from his album Let Love In.
- "Do You Love Me?" - The Contours.
- "Do You Realize??" - The Flaming Lips, from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots.
- "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?" - Culture Club.
- "Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio?" - The Ramones, from End of the Century.
- "Do You Remember Walter?" - The Kinks, from The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society.
- "Do You Sing Any Dylan?" - Eric Bogle. No! No! A thousand times no!
- "Do You Wanna Dance?" - Bobby Freeman, also covered by The Beach Boys on The Beach Boys Today! and The Ramones on Rocket to Russia.
- "Do You Want To" by Franz Ferdinand from You Could Have It So Much Better.
- "Do You Want to Know a Secret?" - The Beatles, from Please Please Me.
- "Don't You Ever Wash That Thing?" - Frank Zappa, from Roxy & Elsewhere.
- "Don't You Remember?" - Adele, from 21.
- "Don't You Want Me" - Human League. Not really, but thanks for the good times.
- "Have I Told You Lately" - Van Morrison, also covered by Elton John
- "(Have You Ever Been to) Electric Ladyland" - Jimi Hendrix, from Electric Ladyland.
- "Eddie Are You Kidding?" - Frank Zappa, from Just Another Band from L.A..
- "Have You Been Making Out O.K.?" - Al Green, from Call Me.
- "Have You Ever Loved a Woman?" - Eric Clapton, from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.
- "Have You Ever Really Ever Loved a Woman?" - Bryan Adams.
- "Have You Ever Seen the Rain?" - Creedence Clearwater Revival.
- "Have You Seen My Baby" - Written by Randy Newman and performed by Ringo Starr on Ringo.
- "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow?" - The Rolling Stones
- "Haven't We Met Here Before?" - Styx, from Kilroy Was Here.
- "Honey, Are You Straight Or Are You Blind?" - Elvis Costello, from Blood & Chocolate.
- "Honey, Don't You Want A Man Like Me?" - Frank Zappa, from Zappa in New York and Läther.
- "How Can I Go On?" - Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé, from Barcelona.
- "How Can You Mend A Broken Heart?" - The Bee Gees, also covered by Al Green, on Let's Stay Together.
- "How Could I Be Such a Fool?" - Frank Zappa, both from Freak Out and Cruising with Ruben & the Jets.
- "How Do I Get to Carnegie Hall?" - Sparks, from Lil' Beethoven. Practice, practice, practice.
- "How Do You Feel?" - Jefferson Airplane, from Surrealistic Pillow.
- "How Do You Sleep?" - John Lennon, from Imagine.
- "How Does the Grass Grow" - David Bowie from The Next Day
- "How Many More Times?" - Led Zeppelin, from Led Zeppelin (1969).
- "How Many More Years?" - Howlin' Wolf, from The Howlin' Wolf Album.
- "How Soon Is Now?" - The Smiths, from Meat is Murder.
- "In These Shoes?" - Kirsty Mac Coll.
- "In The Flesh?" - Pink Floyd from The Wall.
- "Is It In My Head?" - The Who, from Quadrophenia.
- "Is It My Body" - Alice Cooper from Love It to Death
- "Is She Really Going Out With Him?" - Joe Jackson, from Look Sharp!
- "Is That All?" - U2
- "Is There Something I Should Know?" - Duran Duran
- "Is This Desire?" - PJ Harvey, from Is This Desire?.
- "Is This Love?" - Bob Marley, from Kaya
- "Is This What You Wanted?" - Leonard Cohen, from New Skin for the Old Ceremony.
- "Kiyakiya (Why Do You Run Away?)" - Babatunde Olatunji, from Drums of Passion.
- "Kristy, Are You Doing OK?" - The Offspring
- "Life On Mars?" - David Bowie, from Hunky Dory.
- "Qué Onda Guero" (Spanish for "What's up, white boy?") - Beck, from Guero
- "Remember Me?" - Eminem, from The Marshall Mathers LP.
- "She Watch Channel Zero?" - Public Enemy, from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back.
- "Should I Stay Or Should I Go?" - The Clash.
- Something/Anything? – Todd Rundgren's breakthrough album.
- "The Spaghetti Incident?" - Guns N' Roses.
- "Swans? What Swans?" - Frank Zappa, from Guitar.
- "Tell Me Why?" - The Beatles, from A Hard Day's Night.
- They Might Be Giants have done a fair number of these, including "Am I Awake?", "How Can I Sing Like a Girl?", and "Why Must I Be Sad?"
- "Var är vi nu?" - Kent
- "What?" - A Tribe Called Quest, from The Low End Theory.
- "What Are All These Bands So Angry About?" - Sparks, from Lil' Beethoven.
- "The Fox (What Does The Fox Say?)" - Ylvis "I want to believe."
- "What Do I Do When I'm Alone?" - Grover from Sesame Street, from Sesame Street: Platinum All-Time Favorites.
- "What Do You Do For Money, Honey?" - AC/DC, from Back in Black.
- "What Do You Want from Life?" - The Tubes
- "What Is Love?" - Haddaway
- "What Goes On?" - The Beatles, from Rubber Soul.
- "What Good Am I?" - Bob Dylan, from Oh Mercy.
- "What Kind Of Girl Do You Think We Are?" - Frank Zappa, from Fillmore East, June 1971...
- "What Makes You Think You're The One?" - Fleetwood Mac, from Tusk.
- "What More Can I Do?" - The Zombies, from Begin Here.
- "What the Hell Happened To Me?" - Adam Sandler, Title Track.
- "What Was It You Wanted?" - Bob Dylan, from Oh Mercy.
- "What Will This Evening Bring Me This Morning? - Frank Zappa, from 200 Motels.
- "What'll I Do?" - Standard written by Irving Berlin.
- Subverted by Marvin Gaye's album What's Going On? and its title track. Despite the page for the album including the question mark, neither the album nor the song actually use it.
- "What's Happening, Brother?" - Marvin Gaye, from his album What's Going On?.
- "What's He Building In There?" - Tom Waits, from Mule Variations.
- "What's New In Baltimore?" - Frank Zappa, from Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention.
- "What's So Funny 'Bout Peace, Love and Understanding?", Brinsley Schwarz, from New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz, later Covered Up by Elvis Costello, from Armed Forces.
- "What's Your Game?" - The Ramones, from Leave Home.
- "What's That?" from Sun Ra's The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra.
- "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" by R.E.M. from Monster (1994) (taken from an infamous incident involving Dan Rather)
- "What's The Ugliest Part Of Your Body?" - Frank Zappa, from We're Only in It for the Money.
- "What's This Feeling?" - Al Green, from Let's Stay Together.
- "What's This Thing Called Love?" - Frank Sinatra, from In the Wee Small Hours.
- "What's Up?" - Four Non Blondes (the song actually has "What's Going On?" as a refrain, but the band wanted to avoid Similarly Named Works confusion with Marvin Gaye's What's Going On?.)
- "Whatever Happened to All the Fun in the World?" - Frank Zappa, from Sheik Yerbouti.
- Whatever Happened to Benny Santini? - The debut album from British singer-songwriter Chris Rea. The title referred to Benjamin Santini, a stage name Rea sarcastically invented but his record label wanted him to actually adopt.
- "When You Gonna Wake Up?" - Bob Dylan, from Slow Train Coming.
- "Where Is Her Head" - The National
- "Where Is My Mind?" - The Pixies
- "Where Is The Line?" - Björk, from Medúlla.
- "Where Is The Love?" - Black Eyed Peas.
- "Where Is Tomorrow?" - Sun Ra, from The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra.
- "Where There's Woman?" - Captain Beefheart, from Safe as Milk.
- "Where Y'At?" - Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews, from Music/Backatown.
- "Who Are The Brain Police?" - Frank Zappa, from Freak Out.
- "Who Are You?" - Tom Waits, from Bone Machine.
- Who Are You? - The Who
- "Who Do You Love?" – Bo Diddley.
- "Who Do You Think You Are" - Two different songs. The first was released in 1973 by Candlewick Green in the UK, with a cover by Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods making it to the US Top 20 the next year. The other, a 1997 release by The Spice Girls, made it to Number 1 in the UK (but never saw a US release).
- Who's Next - The Who. A Double-Meaning Title which deliberately can be read either as a question or just a description.
- "Who Will Survive in America?" - Gil Scott-Heron, later sampled by Kanye West on his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.
- Who Do We Think We Are? - Deep Purple.
- "Who The Fuck?" - PJ Harvey, from Uh Huh Her.
- "Who Is It?" - Björk, from Medúlla.
- "Who Is It?" - Michael Jackson, from Dangerous.
- "Who Is It?" - Talking Heads, from Talking Heads: 77
- "Who Killed Bambi?" - Sex Pistols.
- "Who Killed Cock Robin?" - Traditional.
- "Who Knew?" - Eminem, from The Marshall Mathers LP.
- "Who Let The Dogs Out?" - Baha Men
- "Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?"
- "Who Says A Funk Band Can't Rock?" - Funkadelic, from One Nation Under a Groove.
- "Who Stole The Soul?" - Public Enemy, from Fear of a Black Planet.
- "Who Threw The Overalls In Mrs. Murphy's Chowder?
- "Who'll Stop The Rain?" - Creedence Clearwater Revival.
- "Who's Been Sleeping Here?" - The Rolling Stones, from Between the Buttons.
- "Who's That Girl?" - Eurythmics
- "Whose Eye Is It Anyway???" - Jhariah
- "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?" - Arctic Monkeys, from AM
- "Why D'Ya Do It?" - Marianne Faithfull, from Broken English.
- "Why Did It Have To Be Me?" - ABBA, from Arrival.
- "Why Didn't You Stop Me?" - Mitski.
- "Why Do Fools Fall In Love?" - Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers.
- "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" - Frank Zappa, from Joe's Garage.
- "Why Does Love Have To Be So Sad?" - Eric Clapton from Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs.
- "Why Don'tcha Do Me Right?" - Frank Zappa, from Absolutely Free.
- "Why Don't We Do It In The Road?" - The Beatles, from The White Album.
- "Why Don't You Try?" - Leonard Cohen, from New Skin for the Old Ceremony.
- "Why Don't You Get a Job?" - The Offspring Because my sucker boy/girlfriend pays for everything, so I don't need to.
- "Why Is It Always This Way?" - The Ramones, from Rocket to Russia.
- "Why Lady Why" - Alabama
- "Why Me?"
- Album, with the question mark – Daniel Johnston
- Song, with the question mark – Irene Cara, Mike + the Mechanics, Linda Martin, A House, Kierra Sheard, Ice Cube.
- Song, without the question mark – Kris Kristofferson, Styx, Planet P Project, PJ & Duncan.
- "Why Won't You Give Me Your Love?" - The Zutons.
- "Why You Wanna Treat Me So Bad?" - Prince from his album Prince.
- "Why You Wanna Trip On Me?" - Michael Jackson, from Dangerous.
- "Will Anything Happen?" - Blondie from Parallel Lines.
- "Will You Be There?" - Michael Jackson, from Dangerous.
- "Would?" - Alice in Chains, from Dirt.
- "Would You...?" (full title: "Would You Go To Bed With Me?") - Touch and Go.
- "Would You Go All The Way?" - Frank Zappa, from Chunga's Revenge.
- "Would You Like A Snack?" - Jefferson Airplane, from Crown of Creation.
- "Would You Like A Snack?" - Frank Zappa, from 200 Motels.
- "Wouldn't It Be Nice?" - The Beach Boys, from Pet Sounds.
- The Anna Russell albums on CD:
- The Anna Russell Album?, much of which was originally released on an LP titled Anna Russell Sings! Again? Yes.
- Anna Russell Again? Yes.
- Anna Russell Encore? Yes.
- "¿Y Tú Qué Has Hecho?" by Buena Vista Social Club from Buena Vista Social Club.
- Hinatazaka46:
- "Konna Seiretsu wo Dare ga Saseru no ka?" ("Who Made This Arrangement?")
- "Konna ni Suki ni Natchatte Ii no?" ("Is It Okay to Be This Much in Love with You?")
- "Right?"
- "Dousuru? Dousuru? Dousuru?" ("What to Do?" x3)
Podcasts?
- Every episode of Plumbing the Death Star sets out to answer a question about a work of fiction and that question is almost always the episode title. The few exceptions include "Professor Charles Xavier's Crazy Summer" and a few of the early episodes before the format was set.
- The theme song of Were You Raised by Wolves? reveals that the question of the title is ironic.
"We can all use a little help / So people don't ask themselves / Were you raised by wolves?"
Professional Wrestling?
- CHIKARA's May 26, 2007 show was titled Aniversario?
Radio?
- Does He Take Sugar?, The BBC's magazine programme about disabled issues.
- Yes, What?, a comedy set in a school classroom that took its title from exasperated teacher Dr. Pym's catchphrase.
Tabletop Games?
- Memory-matching game Hūsker Dū?
Theatre?
- What Price Glory?
- Where's Charley?, the musical adaptation of Charley's Aunt.
- Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- "Who's on First?" Yes.
- Why Marry?
Video Games?
- Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why'd You Steal Our Garbage?!
- Amazing Frog?
- Hatena? no Daibouken, the second Capcom "Adventure Quiz" game, combines this with Epunymous Title, since "hatena" is Japanese for "question mark." One rival company titled their own quiz game Athena no Hatena?.
- Ivy the Kiwi?
- Where's My Water?
- Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego (and nearly every game in the Carmen Sandiego franchise)
- In Cave Story, after a certain event, some area names get question marks appended to them due to a dramatic change in the area. For example, "Egg Corridor" becomes "Egg Corridor?" in the wake of a catastrophe that leaves many of the dragons in it dead or zombified.
Webcomics?
- The Roomies! side-story Is a Song Forever?
Web Videos?
- Alternate History Hub: A few videos, fitting its being "[a]n entire channel dedicated to the "What If?"", such as:
- City Nerd's "What Is PLANNING? What Planners Do, How To Deal With Them, and Why I'm On YouTube Instead" is a video with a rather long title starting with a question.
- Climate Town: The video "Who Actually Controls Gas Prices?".
- Feminist Frequency: Are Women Too Hard To Animate? Female Combatants
- Linus Tech Tips: The question titles go at least as far back as "Tt exports Interview - Why Do you Guys Sponsor Tastosis?" from June 5, 2013. But they have become more common in The New '10s. One other example is "Is M1 Max worth $400 Extra?"
- Mitten Squad: The video, "Xbox One Release Date... Outed By Walmart?"
- Not Just Bikes videos "Would You Fall For It?", "Can Groceries Be Delivered TOO Quickly?", & "Does Anyone Actually Cycle in Switzerland!?"
- Numberphile: The video, "What is a lucky number? - Numberphile".
- Pikasprey: "Can You Beat Pokemon Crystal With Only a Ditto?"
- Pokémon Talk #42: "Let's Go Pikachu and...Who?"
- The Spiffing Brit: The video, "What Is The Strongest Fallen Empire In Stellaris?"
- VG Myths: Multiple videos, such as "Can You Beat the Metroid Minimalist Pacifist Challenge?".
- Where are the Joneses?
- Where the hell is Matt?
- Who Killed Markiplier?
- Why Not Janice?
Western Animation?
By Creator:
- Tex Avery shorts:
- What Price Fleadom
- What's Buzzin' Buzzard?
- Who Killed Who?
By Series:
- Any Bonds Today?: a War Time Cartoon in the Looney Tunes franchise.
- Avez-vous déjà vu... ?
- Christmas Who?
- The How To... Goofy cartoons.
- Is It Always Right to Be Right?: This parable about the divisions in society answers the question with a "no".
- The Kaeloo episode "What If We Played at Riding Ponies?"
- 8 out of 11 shorts of the Disney educational video series Language Arts Through Imagination have titles that are formatted this waynote . The 3 that avert this are "Reading Magic With Figment and Peter Pan", "Writing Magic With Figment and Alice In Wonderland", and "The Case of the Missing Space".
- Looney Tunes: What's Opera, Doc?
- The Patrick Star Show has the episode "Who's a Big Boy?"
- The PAW Patrol episode "Pups Save an Underground Chicken" was given the title "Where is the Golden Chickaletta?" in French.
- Pontoffel Pock, Where Are You?
- The Ready Jet Go! episodes "How Come the Moon Has Craters?", "How Come the Moon Changes Shape?", "Which Moon is Best?", and "What's a Satellite?"
- Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
- Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!
- The Simpsons episodes "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?", "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?", "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?", "Dude, Where's My Ranch?", "O Brother, Where Bart Thou?", "How Munched is That Birdie in the Window?", "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me?", and Todd, Todd, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?".
- Steven Universe: "Are You My Dad?" and "What's Your Problem?"
- What About Mimi?
- Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones?
- What If…? (2021). All the episode titles also follow the question theme. Hilariously, episode five is "What if... Zombies?!", which makes it sound like even the title is confused by such a thing happening.
- What's New, Scooby-Doo?
- What's with Andy?
- Where's Huddles?
- Where's Waldo? (2019)
- Who Killed Cock Robin? (1935)
- Why, Charlie Brown, Why?
- Will The Real Jerry Lewis Please Sit Down?
- Why do you ask so many questions????
