Ina Garten
Cookery writer and shop owner
Lying on the sofa watching old episodes of Law & Order all day.
What is the trait you most deplore in others?
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What is the worst thing anyone has said to you?
Failure & regret
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What would you like to be remembered for?
Death & what remains
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Aside from a property, what is the most expensive thing you have bought?
Money & investment
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How would you describe yourself in three words?
Identity & self
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What do you consider your greatest achievement?
Craft & work
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What is your greatest fear?
Identity & self
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A verbatim standing question in The Guardian's rotating Q&A questionnaire, documented across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Coldness, selfishness.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 August 2026 source ↗
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Basketball player and author
Dishonesty. It destroys relationships. It’s something celebrities especially have to guard against because people are prone to tell you what they think you want to hear rather than the truth.
Intolerance, which is never far from stupidity.
Casual cruelty; the wearing of essential oils.
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She was surprisingly good at the harpsichord.
A sports car. I was in my 20s; I’d fallen out with my boyfriend, so to cheer myself up I got myself a little silver and black Mazda and a matching jumper and jacket. And do you know what, it worked. I saw him do a double take.
Passionate, gobby, flabby.
Growing three brains.
My kids navigating the world as it is today – and daddy longlegs.
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