Break in the music=Big issue question

Each time our director stopped the music at one high school jazz ensemble rehearsal, one player would ask him a big issue question, such as "Do you think creationism should be taught in public schools?" or "Do you think there should be a seven-day waiting period in order to buy a gun?"  I don't remember the director's answers.  I remember, though, that after this player had asked four such questions, and the director stopped the music for the fifth time, he looked at the student and asked, "Well?"  "Well?" the student replied.  The director asked, "Don't you have any more provocative questions?  Any other test-my-morals questions?"  It amused me that, by that point, the director's expectation of a big question had become Pavlovian.