The document is a list of hypothetical "What if?" questions that could be generated by clicking buttons on a magical box. It includes over 200 unlikely and imaginative scenarios that prompt the reader to speculate on how the world might be different if certain changes occurred, such as if humans could fly, schools did not exist, or animals could talk. The questions cover a wide range of topics from history, politics, society, science, and more.

1. The What If? Box
A magical box filled with unlikely questions.
Made by Mike Gershon –
mikegershon@hotmail.com

2. Click a button…get a What if…?

3. What if humans could fly?

4. What if you could turn invisible for a
day?

5. What if humans had tails?

6. What if there was someone exactly
the same as you?

7. What if you had a secret ability?

8. What if humans could only
remember certain information?

9. What if school didn’t exist?

10. What if there were no laws?

11. What if the government gave
up?

12. What if holidays were banned?

13. What if you could go to school
whenever you wanted?

14. What if you had to work from the
age of fourteen?

15. What if weather forecasters were
paid to get things wrong?

16. What if the government controlled
everybody’s wages?

17. What if every job paid the same
money?

18. What if bankers had to live in
council estates?

19. What if private schools were
banned?

20. What if showers were made
illegal?

21. What if animals started talking?

22. What if your dog is actually
taking you for a walk?

23. What if what you think is true
isn’t true?

24. What if society was more
equal?

25. What if society was less equal?

26. What if taxes were raised?

27. What if the government got rid of
taxes?

28. What if movies came true?

29. What if World War Two had never
happened?

30. What if the Roman Empire had not
collapsed?

31. What if the another party had
one the last election?

32. What if slavery had been
banned earlier?

33. What if there had been no
American Revolution?

34. What if there had been no French
Revolution?

35. What if there had been no Russian
Revolution?

36. What if nuclear weapons had not
been invented?

37. What if televisions had not been
invented?

38. What if you could change one law?
What would it be?

39. What if you could change one
thing about the world? What
would it be?

40. What if you could change one thing
about school? What would it be?

41. What if you could change one thing
about yesterday? What would it
be?

42. What if you could choose what
subjects to study from the
beginning of Year 7?

43. What if all schools were for 3-18
year-olds?

44. What if newsreaders are lying?

45. What if newspapers don’t tell
the truth?

46. What if there is no such thing as
truth?

47. What if farming was banned?

48. What if global warming
continues?

49. What if free speech was curtailed?

50. What if human rights were
ignored?

51. What if police officers were given
more power?

52. What if law courts were painted in
bright, pretty colours?

53. What if you had to get a permit
to play in the park?

54. What if the public sector was
abolished?

55. What if you had to move country?

56. What if Shakespeare had never
written anything?

57. What if Charles Dickens had had a
different job?

58. What if the Bible had never been
translated into English?

59. What if Britain was a republic?

60. What if wood was more
valuable than gold?

61. What if clothes grew as you grew?

62. What if insects were the size of
mammals?

63. What if buildings could talk?

64. What if London was not the
capital of England?

65. What if Paris was the capital of
England?

66. What if Britain left the European
Union?

67. What if America turned against
the rest of the world?

68. What if the BBC was shut
down?

69. What if you started your own
business?

70. What if you went to Oxford
University?

71. What if the sun took holidays?

72. What if money was banned?

73. What if time went quicker than it
does?

74. What if right is wrong?

75. What if tomorrow never comes?

76. What if science gets things
wrong?

77. What if evolution continues for
another million years?

78. What if a new source of energy was
found?

79. What if you received a mystery
gift?

80. What if you found a twenty pound
note?

81. What if you witnessed a crime?

82. What if you were asked to do
something you thought was
wrong?

83. What if elections were decided
through football matches?

84. What if you were not allowed to
speak when in school?

85. What if the government brought
back corporal punishment?

86. What if the death penalty was
reintroduced?

87. What if things were different?

88. What if houses were upside down?

89. What if animals could be
recruited as spies?

90. What if CCTV was everywhere?

91. What if forests could move
around?

92. What if the bottom-placed team
was awarded the league title?

93. What if humans had not invented
writing?

94. What if humans had not
invented sanitation?

95. What if humans had not
invented flags?

96. What if humans had not
invented fridges?

97. What if humans had not invented
the mobile phone?

98. What if humans had not discovered
fire?

99. What if teaching was done by a
computer?

100. What if you could learn at home
instead of school?

101. What if shoelaces were edible?

102. What if nothing ever changed?

103. What if things changed more
quickly than at present?

104. What if China overtakes America?

105. What if wars were replaced by
sports?

106. What if someone invented a
new religion?

107. What if scientists had to share
all their ideas for free?

108. What if you could create a
perfect world?

109. What if you had to move
abroad?

110. What if only people with jobs were
allowed to vote?

111. What if only people without jobs
were allowed to vote?

112. What if adults were allowed to
return to school?

113. What if humans were ten feet
tall?

114. What if it was sunny and warm
every day of the year?

115. What if we were invaded?

116. What if someone you know is a
spy?

117. What if it’s true that money makes
the world go round?

118. What if the grass really is
greener on the other side?

119. What if geography was made
compulsory until the age of
eighteen?

120. What if colours had no names?

121. What if everything was black and
white?

122. What if lie detectors really worked?

123. What if things don’t change?

124. What if things get better?

125. What if things get worse?

126. What if your mind plays tricks
on you?

127. What if we can’t know anything
for certain?

128. What if money grew on trees?

129. What if you went to a different
school?

130. What if you could change one
part of society?

131. What if you knew everything
there is to know?

132. What if you were ten years
older?

133. What if you had done things
differently?

134. What if you could control the
weather?

135. What if you could control the tide?

136. What if humans went to live in
outer space?

137. What if aliens exist?

138. What if laughing was made illegal?

139. What if you had to pay to see
the doctor?

140. What if phone conversations
were recorded?

141. What if other people could read
your mind?

142. What if you could read other
people’s minds?

143. What if America was still a British
colony?

144. What if Germany left the European
Union?

145. What if the United Nations had
its own army?

146. What if everyone got to be
Prime Minister for a day?

147. What if you won the lottery?

148. What if you were offered a job in a
different country?

149. What if you forgot how to make
decisions?

150. What if you had lots of other
people relying on you?

151. What if you had no sense of smell?

152. What if you had no sense of taste?

153. What if everything was
reversed?

154. What if ice-cream was good for
you?

155. What if children were allowed to
drive?

156. What if unemployment was
50%?

157. What if everyone was
vegetarian?

158. What if the sea level went down?

159. What if there were no
mountains?

160. What if 1+1=3?

161. What if we don’t control our own
actions?

162. What if our choices are
determined by our past?

163. What if the X-Factor had never
been invented?

164. What if pop videos reflected real
life?

165. What if aliens lived with us, on
Earth?

166. What if the moon landings were
faked?

167. What if humans had to live
under the sea?

168. What if computers could think for
themselves?

169. What if robots demanded
rights?

170. What if animals had the same
rights as humans?