Questioningly runs Fridays until Monday morning, when we’ll ask one of the Questioningly judges to draw a doodle of a person on a desert island. Illustration by Saul Steinberg.

The contest was a sequel. In the very first Questioningly, we had asked for a word to be removed from the language.Now we were wanting one to be added. It seemed contrary, and pretty soon, we got ...

When we sing the anthem, we don't end it questioningly, but with a firm, declarative (sometimes over-warbled) note. Portrait of Francis Scott Key, attributed to Joseph Wood, about 1825.