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| meeting-time = Several times per week
| meeting-place = Somewhere with a [[pianos|piano]]
| contact-name = Daniel PotterAllison Li| contact-unix = drp1 awl4
| wso-listserver = gq
| website = http://www.williamsgoodquestion.com
| YouTube = https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClNDsU9_SM9O9_vBRjRunYQ
| established = 1995
}}
Good Question was created 21 24 years ago, which makes it one of the youngest [[a cappella]] groups on campus. However, having just hit puberty means that the awkward years are over, and GQ is getting rather sexy. Stuck between crazy and hot (leaning, however, to the latter) GQ has been known to put on a good show, always with something to laugh at, someone to drool over, and some pretty damn good music to listen to in between. Members are rumored to like the following: jersey shore, flannel, whales, spoonerisms, and bundt cake.
Available for hire; prices negotiable.
==Current Members==
===Members abroad===
==Trivia and Lore==
GQ's story actually begins with a proto-GQ started by Erica Hyman '98 and Bryan Frederick '98 their freshman year that was comprised of frosh that did not get into any other a cappella groups. They did not hold auditions, seeing that it was "part of the problem," which unfortunately led to the group not working out that well. Rehearsal attendance was an issue and the group struggled with complicated arrangements. The group was not an official college sanctioned club, lacking even a real name. Despite these issue, the group did manage to pull together and perform two songs ([https://youtu.be/MtMnI4NTs7A "Zombie Jamboree"] and "Goodnight, Sweetheart") on [[WCFM]] that spring. Then, in a moment that has gone down in GQ history, the radio host asked the group what their name was, and Bryan answered without thinking “Good Question.” The host responded, jokingly, “Wow, great name for a group.” (Listen [https://youtu.be/FV7-JKFMjUY here])
The next fall, Erica and Bryan disbanded the proto-group and held private, invitation-only auditions a couple weeks after the existing groups had held theirs, drawing mostly from folks that had tried out for the [[Frosh Revue]] and didn’t get into any other a cappella groups, as Erica was music directing [[Frosh Revue]] that year. That first year, the group consisted of nine members, with Bryan and Erica the only sophomores and the rest freshman. That group was actually good, and so they did need a name to perform and advertise. Erica and Bryan had been joking since the spring that they could just keep calling ourselves themselves Good Question, but they were determined to come up with a better name, though one that was not a pun on either “Eph” or musical terminology (see [[Ephlats]] and [[Accidentals]]). In Bryan's words, "We failed spectacularly," and the group has been Good Question to this day (often abbreviated with its kick-ass initials).
Because of the Frosh Revue connection, there was a pretty heavy emphasis on skits and choreography in those early years, and while that emphasis has come and gone, one part of GQ’s founding ethos did persist: "our goal was to take the music seriously, but not take ourselves too seriously." (Bryan Frederick) Since then, through good times and bad, GQ has kept to this goal, and hopefully will for years to come.
==Discography==
Find GQ on Bandcamp [http://williamsgoodquestion.bandcamp.com/ here]
Find GQ on Soundcloud [https://soundcloud.com/williamsgoodquestion here]
Andrew Lyness
Cami Speyer(Member Fall 2013 - Fall 2016)
Rose Warner Miles(Member Fall 2013 - Spring 2015)
Ananya Mayukha (member Member Fall 2013 - Fall 2014)
===='18s====
Bee Sachsse(Member Fall 2014 - Spring 2017)
Eli Llera
Justin Smilan
Nick Friedman(Member Fall 2014 - Spring 2016)
===='19s====
Francesca "Frankie" Eluhu
Veronica "Nica" Kovalcik (Member Spring 2017 - Spring 2019)
===='20s====
Anna Nicholson (Member Fall 2016)
Hannah Gruendemann
Lily Shao
Whitney Sanford
===='21s====
Abby Fournier (Member Fall 2017)
Christopher Thomas (Member Spring 2020 - )
Fiona Keller
Nadiya Atkinson ('21.5)
Patrick Postec (Member Fall 2017 - Spring 2018)
Peter Knowlton
===='22s====
Allison Li ('22.5)
Andrew Lee
Anjali Poe
Gigi Gamez
Polly Ellman
Thomas VanBelle
===='23s====
Brooke Flagler
Carolyn Mielke (Member Fall 2020 - )
Robin Lamb
Ronni Ramos (Member Fall 2019)
Tad Montesano
Will McCormick
===='24s====
Asha Sandler
Ben Su
Leo Marburg
