Lead-in to care or dare

• "___ have to spell it out for you?": 2 wds
• "How --- love thee?"
• "___ detect a hint of sarcasm?": 2 wds
• Crosby's "So ___"
• 'Where -- start?'
• "Where ___ begin?": 2 wds
• "___ need to paint you a picture?"
• Enthusiastic rhetorical question

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
are three Japanese family names that are pronounced identically, with the first kanji of each pair of characters meaning "earth." Since they are the same phonetically , they are romanized identically: "do" for the first character and "i" for the second. ...