You should keep asking questions. If people are afraid to answer them then it is on them.
I have been asking questions, but not as frequently, a question will spring from me from time to time, I'll shoot one through. But I need to remind myself not to ask because I oftentimes dont care about the answer to the very question I was dumb enough to ask.
Im not putting that in their court but my own.
I dont really care to hog tie answers out of people, I even find being on the other end of that irritating also, and I would refuse to answer myself not because I am afraid, but because someone has delighted themselves in trying to make a power struggle of it and dropping the rope during a tug of war has become less exhausting and quite liberating so its best just disengage from it.