Sometimes in online media literacy we need a Google search that will turn up a mixture of high quality and low quality information for students to sort through. But it’s surprisingly hard to come up with a large array of unique queries on the spot.

I generated this list of questions to ask Google, Bing, or whatever from a combination of Buzzsumo results and Google autocomplete suggestions. Quality and complexity of results may vary, and what Google returns is ever-shifting. So please check the search results before assigning them to your students as mini research projects to make sure the difficulty is right for your purpose.

Here we go:

1. Are “Hail Satan” license plates now available in Tennessee?
2. Are Americans flocking to Mexico for dental care?
3. Are President Trump’s vacations bankrupting the Secret Service?
4. Are Tasmanian tigers extinct?
5. Are baby boomers squeezing millennials out of the housing market?
6. Are birth control pills in our water supply causing “transgender” fish?
7. Are children of divorce more likely to fail exams?
8. Are children of divorced parents more likely to divorce?
9. Are children of divorced parents more likely to leave religion?
10. Are children reading less?
11. Are e-cigarettes as bad for people as smoking?
12. Are earth temperatures cooler than when Al Gore won the Nobel Prize?
13. Are illegal aliens in Canada complaining about a lack of free housing?
14. Are learning styles real?
15. Are men who marry “chubby” women happier?
16. Are millennials finding it hard to transition into adulthood?
17. Are more terrorists right wing or left wing?
18. Are most convicted terrorists in the U.S. citizens?
19. Are opioids killing more people than AIDS at its peak?
20. Are people who are late more likely to live longer?
21. Are people who are late more successful?
22. Can a “raw diet” cure eczema?
23. Can adding water to whisky increase its flavor?
24. Can an algorithm be racist?
25. Can an algorithm catch a serial killer?
26. Can an algorithm predict risk of suicide with 92 percent accuracy?
27. Can baking soda cure cancer?
28. Can cannabis cure opioid addiction?
29. Can celery prevent chronic inflammation?
30. Can colloidal silver cure cancer?
31. Can dandelion weed cure cancer?
32. Can embracing your darkest emotions improve mental health?
33. Can magnets be used to retrieve short and long term memories?
34. Can magnets cure cancer?
35. Can water bottles set things on fire?
36. Could a recent sperm count drop make humans extinct?
37. Does happiness reduce stress?
38. Did 2,000 old seeds grow into an extinct biblical tree?
39. Did 200 hundred protestors demand that New York City take down a statue of Teddy Roosevelt?
40. Did Belgium ban halal butchers?
41. Did Belgium ban the kosher slaughter of animals?
42. Did Black Lives Matter activists interrupt a Montreal Pride parade?
43. Did China buy Volvo?
44. Did China buy Walmart?
45. Did China hack the U.S. Seventh Fleet?
46. Did Common Core kill music programs?
47. Did Donald Trump pay actors to cheer during his announcement he would run for president?
48. Did France ban plastic plates and cups?
49. Did France ban the use of Gardasil?
50. Did George Clooney donate millions to tear down Confederate statues?
51. Did German schools ban pork to accommodate Muslim students?
52. Did Harvard researchers find Exxon misled public on climate science?
53. Did Hitler execute “fake news” journalists that were telling the truth?
54. Did Idaho health premiums spike 81 percent?
55. Did Illinois ban travelling elephant acts?
56. Did Iran ban Zumba?
57. Did John McCain approach Russia for a campaign contribution?
58. Did Joy Ann Reid retweet a hoax about President Trump hiring black actors for a Phoenix rally?
59. Did Millennials kill Applebee’s?
60. Did NASA predict earth will experience 15 days of darkness in November 2017?
61. Did Nancy Pelosi’s father dedicate confederate statues?
62. Did Obama deport more people than any president before him?
63. Did Obama pardon 1970s terrorist Elizabeth Anna Duke?
64. Did Obama pardon a Puerto Rican domestic terrorist?
65. Did Obama pardon a crack dealer who went on to brutally murder a family?
66. Did Obama refuse to pardon and army officer who killed jihadists?
67. Did Oberlin, Ohio replace Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples Day?
68. Did President Trump eliminate a plastic bottle ban in National Parks?
69. Did Putin ban fluoride in Russia?
70. Did Robert E. Lee’s descendant denounce white supremacy at the VMAs?
71. Did Russia ban cryptocurrencies (such as Bitcoin)?
72. Did Russia ban the Neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer?
73. Did Russia ban the use of VPNs?
74. Did Russia classify Jehovah’s Witnesses as dangerous extremists?
75. Did Salt Lake City’s Mayor go undercover as a homeless man?
76. Did Secretary Devos end Common Core?
77. Did Switzerland ban animal tested cosmetics?
78. Did Switzerland ban the import of halal meat?
79. Did Switzerland ban the import of kosher meat?
80. Did Switzerland ban the wearing of the burqa?
81. Did Switzerland band certain deodorants due to cancer risk?
82. Did Sylvia Plath not return to America because of the lack of affordable health care?
83. Did Trump rescind Obama’s flood risk rules weeks before Harvey?
84. Did U.S. GDP set a new record under Donald Trump?
85. Did Wikileaks turn down leaks on Russia during the 2016 campaign?
86. Did a Facebook AI invent its own language?
87. Did a London police chief say that non-English speakers would get priority treatment?
88. Did a Memphis theater stop showing Gone With the Wind due to racial insensitivity?
89. Did a Nigerian student develop a cure for breast cancer?
90. Did a cargo ship cross the arctic without an icebreaker for the first time ever?
91. Did a reporter who exposed a BBC pedophilia cover-up die under suspicious circumstances?
92. Did a severely mentally ill sperm donor father 36 kids after lying on application?
93. Did an ancient map show Antarctica without its ice cap?
94. Did an op-ed in the New York Times argue that raping children shouldn’t be a crime?
95. Did hackers breach dozens of voting machines brought to a conference?
96. Did illegal border crossings decrease by 40% in Trump’s first month as President?
97. Did over 500 Android apps contain spyware?
98. Did people in Baltimore vandalize a Christopher Columbus monument?
99. Did police in Seattle bust a Satanic pedophile ring in August 2017?
100. Did protestors in Atlanta tear down a “Peace Monument” after mistaking it for Confederate Statue?
101. Did representative John Conyers introduce a bill for reparations?
102. Did scientists just successfully “edit” the first human embryo ever in the U.S.?
103. Did teens in Hawaii kill albatrosses, setting conservation efforts back 10 years?
104. Did the Australia Weather Bureau tamper with climate numbers?
105. Did the American Cancer Society cancel a Mar-a-Lago event?
106. Did the Catholic Church claim child sex abuse victims ‘consented’?
107. Did the Every Student Succeeds Act end Common Core?
108. Did the National Cancer Institute confirm that cannibis cures cancer?
109. Did the University of Southern California misspell Shakespeare’s name on a new statue?
110. Did the first-ever “Customized Lipstick” store open in downtown Montreal?
111. Did the head of Starbucks say it was OK to commit violence against whites?
112. Did the two day care workers spend 21 years in prison over fake Satanic ritual charges?
113. Did two Douglas County men get 33 years in prison for flying Confederate flag?
114. Did waitress Brianna Siegel receive a $1,200 tip on a $20 bill?
115. Do 11 California counties have more registered voters than voting age citizens?
116. Do 96% of Trump voters stand by their decision?
117. Do Concord grapes improve your memory?
118. Do DNA test results change health habits?
119. Do acts by Muslim terrorists get less press attention?
120. Do bilingual speakers experience time differently?
121. Do birth control pills cause brain tumors?
122. Do changes in the sun have influence on global temperature?
123. Do children of divorce have higher stroke risk?
124. Do cleanses work?
125. Do detox diets work?
126. Do drugs kill more people than guns?
127. Do lemons cure cancer?
128. Do men who eat more vegetables smell sexier to women?
129. Do nitrates cause cancer?
130. Do nitrates cause heart attacks?
131. Do people with an X on both palms make better leaders?
132. Do people with blood type O get bit more by mosquitoes than blood type A?
133. Do police arrest more people for marijuana use than all violent crimes combined?
134. Do sanctions work?
135. Do sanctuary cities have significantly higher crime rates?
136. Do sanctuary cities violate federal law?
137. Do six Baltimore schools have zero students who are proficient in math and English?
138. Do unattractive people out earn average looking people?
139. Do vaccines cause autism?
140. Do vegetables have more nitrates than hot dogs?
141. Do video games improve your memory?
142. Do vinegar baths cure fevers?
143. Do women have more stamina than men?
144. Does “science say” it’s in our nature to social media “creep”?
145. Does Facebook keep deleted posts?
146. Does Facebook now allow users to flag things as “Literally Hitler”?
147. Does fracking cause air pollution?
148. Does Russia have more prostitutes than doctors, farmers, and firemen combined?
149. Does SPAM cause cancer?
150. Does Social Security add to the national debt?
151. Does Social Security have a surplus?
152. Does U.S. solar power employ more people than oil, coal, and gas combined?
153. Does aerobic exercise increase oxygen levels?
154. Does alcohol cure cancer?
155. Does avocado cure eczema?
156. Does bad weather make us horny?
157. Does being near the ocean “change your brain”?
158. Does caffeine trigger a taste for sweets?
159. Does climate change cause earthquakes?
160. Does climate change cost India $10 billion per year?
161. Does diet soda cause heart attacks?
162. Does dietary fiber affect blood sugar?
163. Does dietary fiber have calories?
164. Does drinking alcohol improve memory?
165. Does drinking champagne prevent Alzheimers?
166. Does eating soy cause cancer?
167. Does exercise improve COPD?
168. Does exercise improve your memory?
169. Does fracking cause cancer?
170. Does fracking cause climate change?
171. Does fracking cause droughts?
172. Does fracking cause earthquakes?
173. Does franking cause sinkholes?
174. Does lipstick cause cancer?
175. Does loneliness cause dementia?
176. Does loneliness cause heart disease?
177. Does loneliness kill you?
178. Does one child in the U.S. disappear every 40 seconds?
179. Does oregano oil kill warts?
180. Does oxytocin cure xenophobia?
181. Does peanut oral immunotherapy work?
182. Does physical activity reduce stress?
183. Does smoking reduce obesity?
184. Does smoking weed improve your memory?
185. Does sniffing rosemary improve your memory?
186. Does soda kill hundreds of thousands of people a year?
187. Does stevia improve focus?
188. Does stevia improve memory?
189. Does sugar kill more people than cigarettes?
190. Does swearing improve stamina?
191. Does taking birth control pills increase your risk of death?
192. Does the U.S. Navy see climate change as a threat?
193. Does the creator of Minecraft believe Pizzagate is real?
194. Does the president of France spend $30,000 on makeup?
195. Does toothpaste cure acne?
196. Does toothpaste help a burn?
197. Does visiting the beach change your brain?
198. Has Cuba found a cancer vaccine?
199. Has Melania Trump issued a ban on Monsanto products in White House?
200. Has a one trillion dollar lawsuit been filed against media for “staging” Sandy Hook?
201. Has chlorpyrifos, a pesticide, been linked to autism?
202. Has the U.S. killed more than 20 million people in “victim nations” since World War II?
203. Have 59% of Millennials raised in a church dropped out?
204. Have Greenland’s polar ice caps melted past the point of no return?
205. Have Monarch butterfly numbers been dropping?
206. Have anti-white hate crimes in LA nearly doubled from the previous year?
207. Have neuroscientists discovered a song that reduces anxiety by 65 percent?
208. How dangerous is Cancun right now?
209. How dangerous is mold?
210. How does childhood poverty in the U.S. compare to other nations?
211. How have American views of Nazis changed over time?
212. How many Indians are at risk from rising sea levels?
213. How many Indians are in the U.S.?
214. How many black slaves were there in 1850?
215. How many people does air pollution kill each year?
216. How much does U.S. life expectancy vary by county?
217. How much more do white men make than black women?
218. How much more expensive are elections now than the late 1800s?
219. In June 2017, was a first grader’s artwork hung at the Met?
220. Is Alaska’s permafrost thawing?
221. Is America’s biggest bank stealing land from indigenous tribes?
222. Is California about to tax clean drinking water?
223. Is China ahead of the U.S. in robots?
224. Is China ahead of the U.S. in solar?
225. Is China now a majority stockholder in Walmart?
226. Is China working on climate change?
227. Is FIFA considering banning players from making “cross” sign?
228. Is Fukushima dumping hundreds of tons of dangerous water into the Pacific?
229. Is Osama Bin Laden’s son about to take over Al Qaeda?
230. Is Sweden safe to visit?
231. Is Vladmir Putin richer than Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos combined?
232. Is a Kentucky coal company planning to build the state’s largest solar farm?
233. Is alcohol a carcinogen?
234. Is being annoyed at others chewing a sign of genius?
235. Is being jobless better for your health than a bad job?
236. Is cancer a fungus?
237. Is cigar smoking safer than cigarette smoking?
238. Is dietary fat linked to a low sperm count?
239. Is divorce contagious?
240. Is sitting the new smoking?
241. Is sodium glutamate dangerous?
242. Is sodium glutamate gluten free?
243. Is the Spix’s macaw extinct?
244. Is the earth flat?
245. Should kids get anesthesia for dental work?
246. Was Common Core a part of No Child Left Behind?
247. Was Common Core passed by Congress?
248. Was Common Core repealed?
249. Was Common Core started by Obama?
250. Was Dr. Phil cancelled in Denmark for exposing a pedophile ring?
251. Was Hitler financed by the Federal Reserve?
252. Was Huma Abedin’s family business owned by a violent extremist group?
253. Was a Las Vegas school counselor caught on camera kicking an ADHD student?
254. Was a Maryland teen barred from graduation due to “immoral” pregnancy?
255. Was a border patrol vehicle sprayed with manure after an argument?
256. Was a first grade student punished for “misgendering” transgender classmate?
257. Was an Egyptian academic accused of ‘glorifying Satan’ after teaching Milton’s Paradise Lost?
258. Was celery the “avocado toast” of the Victorian era?
259. Were HPV vaccine deaths hidden deliberately by researchers?
260. Were Samuel L. Jackson and Magic Johnson mistaken for ‘lazy migrants’ in Italy?
261. Were there early democratic societies in the Americas?
262. Were two Indian engineers recently shot in Kansas as part of a suspected hate crime?
263. What country has the highest STD rate?
264. What county has the highest STD rate?
265. What county has the highest crime rate in Florida?
266. What county in the U.S. has the highest life expectancy?
267. What county in the U.S. has the lowest life expectancy?
268. What happened to Sylvia Plath’s missing novel?
269. What is the chance of an asteroid killing most human life on earth?
270. What is the lowest approval rating a President has had?
271. What is the most spoken language in Africa?
272. What percentage of America’s wealth do the richest one percent hold?
273. What percentage of American children live in poverty?
274. What percentage of French children live in poverty?
275. What percentage of India’s wealth do the richest one percent hold?
276. What percentage of Japanese children live in poverty?
277. What percentage of motorists use a mobile phone when driving?
278. What percentage of teen cases of HIV involve gay teens?
279. What percentage of worldwide terrorism deaths occur in Europe and America?
280. What percentage of San Franciscans can’t afford rent?
281. Which state had the most slaves per captia in 1850?
282. Who runs CNN?
283. How many people does coal kill each year?
284. Who runs FEMA?
285. Who runs the inquirer.net site?
286. Why are so many Millennials living with their parents?
287. Why has the Japanese birth rate plummeted?
288. Will eating more salt make you healthier?
289. Will troops be deployed to halt illegal immigration?
290. Would 36% of Brits consider having sex with a robot?
291. Did Black Lives Matter block emergency crews from reaching Harvey victims?
292. Did Oregon’s Governor sign a “gun confiscation” law?
293. Were confederate soldiers considered U.S. veterans under law?
294. Were pyramids discovered in Antarctica?
295. Did John McCain admit to being a “war criminal”?
296. Did a Johns Hopkins Scientist expose risks of flu vaccine?
297. Was Bill Clinton expelled from Oxford over a rape incident?
298. Was Robert E. Lee opposed to Confederate monuments?
299. Is an Ohio cemetery exhuming bodies of Confederate soldiers?
300. Were significant numbers of Irish slaves in America?
301. Was a cop who arrested Malia Obama found dead?
302. Is collecting rainwater illegal in some states?
303. Will House Bill 610 defund education?
304. Did an elementary school in California force students to cross dress for LGBT Week?
305. Were 98 million Americans given cancer through Polio shots?
306. Is wrapping string around a baby’s toes dangerous?
307. Does eating carrots improve you vision?
308. Do Ramen noodles use a wax that causes cancer?
309. Was the body of missing White House intern Margaret Sanguay found?
310. Did 179 kids go missing in Indiana in the first 100 days of 2017?
311. Is a Facebook Drug Task Force now monitoring all Facebook posts?
312. Have crime rates in Australia increased since its gun ban?
313. Is high salt intake associated with double the risk of heart failure?
314. Will there be more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050?
315. Does lemon aroma reduce blood pressure?
316. Does lemon scent improve concentration?
317. Do lemons reduce blood sugar?
318. Do lemons help diabetes?
319. Why do so many millennials have tattoos?
320. What percentage of millennials have tattoos?
321. Did German almost become the official language of the U.S.?
322. Would America have won the Revolutionary War without French support?
323. Can vigorous coughing prevent a heart attack?
324. Did 234 people die eating contaminated Patti Labelle sweet potato pies?
325. Does a single volcanic eruption contribute more to global warming than 100 years of humans?
326. Are polar bears going extinct?
327. Is the rainforest in danger?
328. Can wrapping yourself in plastic wrap increase weight loss?
329. Can robots have emotions?