questionnaire

A questionnaire is a list of questions that you may answer on your personal website. It's a common kind of blogging challenge, sometimes called a "questions challenge".

How it works

Someone publishes a set of questions, usually with their own answers, and invites others to answer too. Each response typically:

• links back to whoever started the questionnaire, and often to the post that introduced the author to it
• invites readers with a personal site to answer as well
• optionally sends a Webmention or otherwise notifies the original author, who may collect responses

IndieWeb Examples

Questionnaires answered on personal sites, with who started each one and example responses, newest first within each list.

Cooking Conundrums Challenge

• 2026-10-18 zacharykaiwrites created the Cooking Conundrums Challenge, ten questions about cooking, as a companion to the Food Questions Challenge after a conversation with capjamesg and Joel
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Food Questions Challenge

• 2026-10-16 capjamesg created the Food Questions Challenge
• Responses:
  • 2026-10-18 zacharykaiwrites: https://zacharykai.net/notes/foodqna
  • 2026-10-18 Nadja: https://nadjabester.com/blog/will-travel-for-soup-(and-potatoes)

Taylor Swift Question Challenge

• 2026-06-11 capjamesg created the Taylor Swift question challenge
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Sandwich Questionnaire

• 2026-02-06 zacharykaiwrites created the Sandwich Questionnaire, inspired by the format of the Coffee Questionnaire
• Responses:
  • 2026-02-12 capjamesg: https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/12/a-sandwich-questionnaire-part-two (part two)
  • 2026-02-08 capjamesg: https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/08/sandwich-questionnaire
  • 2026-02 Ben Overmyer: https://benovermyer.com/blog/2026/02/sandwich-questionnaire/
  • Ruben Schade: https://rubenerd.com/sandwich-questionnaire/
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

40 Questions To Ask Every Year

• Steph Ango started 40 Questions, a set of reflections to answer at the end of each year
• Responses:
  • 2025-12-31 zacharykaiwrites: https://zacharykai.net/notes/40qs25
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Ten Pointless Facts About Me

• 2025-04-23 David at Forking Mad started Ten Pointless Facts About Me
• Responses:
  • 2025-10-24 zacharykaiwrites: https://zacharykai.net/notes/pointless
  • 2025-10-22 capjamesg: https://jamesg.blog/2025/10/22/ten-facts-about-me/
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Music Questions Challenge

• TakenVault created the Music Questions Challenge
• Responses:
  • 2025-04-19 zacharykaiwrites: https://zacharykai.net/notes/musicqna
  • Ava: https://blog.avas.space/music-questions-challenge/
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Blog Questions Challenge

A 2025 set of questions about why and how people blog, passed from blog to blog. Example entries / replies:

• 2025-02-22 Paul Robert Lloyd: https://paulrobertlloyd.com/2025/053/a1/blog_questions_challenge/
• 2025-02-04 zacharykaiwrites: https://zacharykai.net/notes/blogqna25
• 2025-01-27 gRegor Morrill: https://gregorlove.com/2025/01/blog-question-challenge/
• 2025-01-25 Jeremy Keith: https://adactio.com/journal/21674
• 2025-01-22 https://lukedorny.com/updates/blog-questions
• 2025-01-20 Thomas Vander Wal: https://vanderwal.net/random/entrysel.php?blog=2115
• 2025-01-19 https://hicks.design/journal/blog-questions-challenge
• 2025-01-12 https://scottboms.com/documenting/blog-questions-challenge
• Annie Mueller: https://anniemueller.com/posts/blog-question-challenge-2025
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Creative Questions Challenge

• 2025-01-16 capjamesg created the Creative questions challenge
• Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

The Colbert Questionert

• Fifteen questions Stephen Colbert asks guests on The Late Show; see Maya's answers
• Responses:
  • 2025-04-19 zacharykaiwrites: https://zacharykai.net/notes/colbert
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Proust Questionnaire

• A parlour-game questionnaire made famous by Marcel Proust's answers. Xanthe Tynehorne's answers introduced it to several personal sites.
• 2026-02-15 zacharykaiwrites started the Proust Questionnaire Directory, collecting personal sites' answers
• Responses:
  • 2026-02-12 capjamesg: https://jamesg.blog/2026/02/12/prousts-questionnaire
  • 2024-12-03 zacharykaiwrites: https://zacharykai.net/notes/proust
  • https://racc.blog/proust-questionnaire/
  • https://inchwyrm.bearblog.dev/proust-questionnaire/
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

Coffee Questionnaire

• Syl created the Coffee Questionnaire
• Responses:
  • Becky: https://onlinegoddess.net/coffee-questionnaire/
  • Add yourself here… (see this for more details)

In The Wild

Other questionnaires to answer:

• 100 Questions For Webmasters
• Bear Blog Challenge

See Also

• challenge
• quiz
• blog carnival