Can a question be a false premise?

Like in the case of asking a question that implies something is fact when it's not. For example: ';Why did you fail to notify the school of your absence?'; In this example, let's say the person did in fact notify the school and did not fail to do so. Would this question be a false premise? A lie? An untruth? Something else?Can a question be a false premise?
Your example is what is known as a loaded question (aka Plurium Interrogationum). It is a type of logical fallacy in which a question begins with an assumption which is either false or disputable.





The classic example of this fallacy is the question ';Have you stopped beating your wife?';





Whether you answer yes or no, you are still admitting to having beaten your wife, when that may not have occurred (or you might not even be married at all).





You might notice a lot of these questions being thrown around in political interviews and commentary, or during high pressure sales (';our product will clean your home right up, can you afford to leave it in such a filthy state?'; when your home might be perfectly fine).





Here are a couple pages which might give you some more insight into loaded questions.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loaded_ques鈥?/a>


http://www.fallacyfiles.org/loadques.htm鈥?/a>Can a question be a false premise?
No, a ';premise'; is a starting point, a question would based on a premise, in your example a false one, but it would not be a premise itself.