What is your greatest fear?

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.

Recorded Mark Radcliffe said elsewhere, not written here
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).

The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗

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Alex Honnold Rock climber; first person to free solo El Capitan
I think when I was younger, I had a lot of the fears that, that you expect from people. Like I was kind of afraid of spiders and things like that. And I think with, you know, years of dealing with fear nonstop, they've all sort of fallen away. I, I mean, I guess my greatest fear is like public embarrassment or public performance, or like what I said earlier about opera singing I'm like, that is still for sure that would be a nightmare. And like, yeah, I could do it. But I would be so bummed.
Recorded Adam Grant, Re:Thinking with Adam Grant, TED, 20 September 2022 source ↗
Edward Enninful Ghanaian-born English editor and stylist
When I get to the restaurant and don’t see any hot sauce on the table.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 December 2022 source ↗

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