Mandy Mathieson collapsed at her Moray home, but a technician at a nearby ambulance depot did not answer a call to go to her aid as he was on a break.
Despite repeated calls and emails to ask why Blackpool is not being promoted to international visitors, a satisfactory answer is not immediately forthcoming.
As a matter of economics, question does not have a simple answer.
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But they are not a miraculous answer to one of America's most intractable problems.
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In a note Thursday morning, Timothy Anderson of Prudential Equity Group said he did not expect a clear answer from the torcetrapib study and that there would need to be "soul searching" for companies developing rival drugs.
As I considered the question posed in the email by the writer and her husband, an employee of a county in Michigan who is on the verge of retiring, I realized that I did not have a good answer to give them.
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"Our deputy knocked on that door and did not get an answer, and in hindsight it's probably a good thing that he did not answer based on his actions before and after that event, " he said.
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Rory Collins, an Oxford University researcher who believes Zetia does prevent heart attacks, says there is a chance the study will give a false answer that there is not a difference.
These are not questions that economists or anyone else can give a sensible answer to - not least, because no-one can say with any confidence what the terms of Britain's NON-membership of the EU would be.
While it is true that whether or not I could make the Manchester United football team is a yes or no answer, that does not mean my chances as a 39-year-old flappy scientist are 50:50.
If a tester did show up, you typically would not get a missed test even if you decided not to answer the door.
The administration and Congress should keep SOPA in mind as a game show trivia answer, but not as a policy solution, as it returns from the conventions and finishes up work this year.
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A. Congressman, that is a hypothetical question, and I'm not going to answer a hypothetical question.
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In other words, there may not be a definitive answer as to why Cowgill is such an anomaly.
Haslam would not answer a reporter's question about whether he had been involved in meetings where rebate fraud was discussed.
He said if they did not get a proper answer, they would go back and ask again until they got one.
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Te'o did not answer a call to his room at a Florida training facility, where he is preparing for the NFL combine.
But the absence of a definitive answer does not make the quest itself any less enjoyable as a bout of intellectual callisthenics.
In fact, this week's events did not provide a clear answer to either question, but they did show what the answers should be.
The spokesman said CCTV would not be a complete answer, as most attacks happened outside the vehicles, but unions are calling for action to protect staff.
Dr Jones did not answer a request for comment.
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Having set itself this conundrum, however, the UKPI - published by the Institute for Economics and Peace - cannot come up with a convincing answer, not least because the decrease in violence is not confined to Britain.
He said the findings did not give a definitive answer as to how speech arose in humans, but they did at least show that a combination of "lip-smacking" and vocalisations could have been a viable step for speech evolution.
If recent euro-zone elections are a guide, the answer is: Not enough to make a difference.
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