The question
Excluding property, what is the most expensive thing you have ever bought?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
The Guardian's weekly The Q&A repeatedly uses this standing prompt, with minor contractions and word-order variation.
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A Porsche 911 Turbo.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 September 2025 source ↗
My electric car: it’s a hybrid Cadillac.
Art. We have some Picassos and Diego Riveras.
A wedding, in 2012.
A table that used to belong to David Bowie: it was £13,000.
John McCarthy, the journalist who was held captive for five years in Beirut. I’ve met him and he was so full of peace, humility and forgiveness – it was inspiring.
I’m slightly impatient.
Ignorance and rudeness. Decency and a please and thank you cost nothing.
“Do you know what your problem is?” It was a dear friend of mine. They were referring to the fact that I’m impatient.
I was a guard on the Orient Express – however, only when it was stationed at a railway siding in Vauxhall.
Looking back is not productive.
Courteney Cox, Anna Paquin, Rosanna Arquette, Olivia Williams, Rylan Clark-Neal, Robert Carlyle
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