THE GUARDIAN Q&A

Please answer a minimum of thirty-five questions, including the first two and last two. Where the question demands a yes or no answer, perhaps you would be kind enough to expand on your response.
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
2. What is your greatest fear?
3. Which living person do you most admire and why?
4. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
5. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
6. What has been your most embarrassing moment?
7. What vehicles do you own?
8. What is your greatest extravagance?
9. What is your most treasured possession?
10. Where would you like to live?
11. What makes you depressed?
12. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
13. Who would play you in a movie of your life?
14. What is your most unappealing habit?
15. What is your favourite smell?
16. What is your favourite word?
17. What is your favourite book?
18. What is your fancy dress costume of choice?
19. Radiator or air conditioning?
20. Cat or dog?
21. Is it better to give or to receive?
22. What is your guiltiest pleasure?
24. To whom would you most like to say sorry and why?
25. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
26. Which living person do you most despise and why?
27. Have you ever said "I love you" without meaning it?
28. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
29. What has been your biggest disappointment?
30. What is your greatest regret?
31. When and where were you happiest?
32. When did you last cry, and why?
33. How do you relax?
36. What single thing would improve the quality of your life?
37. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
38. What keeps you awake at night?
39. What song would you like played at your funeral?
40. How would you like to be remembered?
41. What is the most important lesson life has taught you?