The way I see it, "Wrong" questions will lead you nowhere. "Right" questions will lead to discovery. So the goal is to eliminate as many wrong questions as possible FIRST, then move on to the right questions.
...By making a "wrong question" list. That may be. I was thinking that such a list would be vey, very long. Additionally, it would use up time going through such a list, questions that as you wrote, "lead nowhere", when that time and effort could be directed to aiding a newbie directly to the right questions and perhaps, why they are the right questions. I'll put it another way, if I wanted to teach someone how to type, I wouldn't do it by showing him all the ways there are not to type.
Few newbies, however, want to hear the right questions since the right questions involve work. Those few who want to do the work get the help they need.