Meanings of simplest questions in English

Really you philosophers sometimes don't know how to answer the simplest questions.

Erlendur walked around the flat and pondered the simplest questions.

Sir, - Sometimes the simplest questions are the most difficult ones to ask or to answer.

Even the simplest questions still plague us: will we be able to control the intelligent machines we've created?

The official channel involved embassies, attachés, formal communiques and interminable delays in getting answers to the simplest questions.

The man became drowsy and confused, and was unable to give replies to any but the simplest questions.

Mr. Spragg listened to this with the suffering air of a teacher compelled to simplify upon his simplest questions.

When he dined at the Tuileries, he was much embarrassed in replying to the simplest questions the First Consul addressed him.

She was full of suspicion; she refused to answer the simplest questions put to her by either Mr. Stephens or Gerald Burton.

How those immediately involved could have justified themselves and why their superiors would have given them free rein are only the simplest questions raised.