Thinking Tester: How to improve Questioning skills

Following up on a post in The test tribe FB group - here are my toughs on improving questioning skills

First - few ground rules on questioning

Questioning is a skill - improvable on deliberate practice
Questioning does not mean being disrespectful to other party
At times questioning might be taken as challenging the authority - deal with it appropriately.
Empty your ego and false sense of "I know this stuff" - instead approach "what else I don't' know here" What else is hidden from me now.
Frame questions and follow-ups in a way that it does not turn off or irritate other party
One good way to start question is to describe or re-phrase the understanding in words of other person wherever possible and seek view on if your understanding is correct
No question is silly (from the view point of the asker...:) Only unasked question is silly
while answer is being given - listen carefully - where applicable watch body language of the responded. Do not rush or pounce on immediately.
Listen with an intention to understand not with an intention to answer in return
If you question basic ideas - it will not make you less in any way or a fool
Display courage and humility

Tips/Practice ideas

Ask one question at a time (Courtesy : Jerry Weinberg narrated by Ajay Balamurugadsa)
Approach everything with "awe" and a sense of wonder.
Approach everything with mind of "newness or not seen before"
Develop good vocabulary and skill to say one thing in many different ways
Be good with creating examples and analogies
Dramatize your answers and questions
Do a role play
Create diagrams
Ask "What does *this* mean?
Seek meanings , interpretations and context of words
Learn about word etymologies
Develop understanding through responses received
Do lots of imaginations
Show child like curiosity
Split words from sentences - ask "what does this mean" to every word
ask "what id"
Ask what are constrains or limitations here - what if these constrains are not there - for example - what if we can fly defying the gravity or what it we can walk on water
Question universally known and understood words and ideas
Question authority
Do not settle for right answer - seek more broader set of responses
Be respectful

Human relationship aspects of Questioning

You always run into risk being perceived as arrogant, egoistic, "know all" OR completely dumb
You are mostly likely to put people out of their comfort zone and make them feel nervous
People may not speak to you nicely or avoid talking to you
Understand emotional aspects

Types of Questions:

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