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Someone actually was once offered the opportunity to ask such a question. Here is the question that was asked:
Here is the answer received:
The monkey's finger curls down as a lossy algorithm is applied.
Yeah. A lower limit was never set in the wording of the question, so the answer would likely be "Perpetuate your species as long as possible"
Yeah, but you can't prosper if you don't exist.
Considering the asker didn't get any benefit out of the answer to that question, this is definetly not "the best question" he could ask. So your proposed answer to this question is wrong. The question itself though, is the best one I've heard so far.
You could easily modify that question to qualify "best" in a more useful way.
"most beneficial for my well being"
"most beneficial for humanity's long term well being"
"maximally beneficial to human progress"
"maximally conducive to bring about the total destruction of reality by the Old Ones"
"best way to a smoothie"
Etc.