Set-up:

John and Bob are playing a game that goes like this:

1. Bob chooses a question, though some types of questions are off-limits, which will be listed. After doing this, he cannot do anything else until step 4.
2. John reads the question. Between step 1 and 2, he may do whatever he wants, except cause Bob’s death in any other way than potentially making his answer incorrect.
3. John asks Bob the question Bob himself formulated.
4. Bob answers the question to the best of his ability. If Bob is correct at the time of answering, John will never kill Bob. If he is wrong at the time of answering, John will shoot him dead.

So, what questions are off-limits?

1. The question cannot have a paradoxical answer. So, for example, Bob’s not allowed to choose the question “Is this sentence false?”
2. The question cannot be regarding a fact outside of John’s physical power to change, or regarding a fact John is disallowed by the game to change. So, he can’t choose e.g. “What is 2 + 2”, or “What did you eat yesterday?”
3. The question cannot refer to the future.

There’s an omniscient box there to tell them if John is physically unable to change a fact or not. If he is physically unable, Bob must ask a new question. John and Bob are average men.

The puzzle:

What question can Bob choose such that he guarantees that John does not shoot him dead?