diff --git a/pybatfish/question/question.py b/pybatfish/question/question.py
index 12085aa..4c88c01 100644
--- a/pybatfish/question/question.py
+++ b/pybatfish/question/question.py
@@ -76,17 +76,21 @@ class QuestionMeta(type):
         """Creates a new class for a specific question."""
         new_cls = super(QuestionMeta, cls).__new__(cls, name, base, dct)
 
-        def constructor(self, question_name=None,
-                        exclusions=None, **kwargs):
+        def constructor(self, *args, **kwargs):
             """Create a new question."""
+            # Reject positional args; this way is PY2-compliant
+            if args:
+                raise TypeError("Please use keyword arguments")
+
             # Call super (i.e., QuestionBase)
             super(new_cls, self).__init__(new_cls.template)
 
             # Update well-known params, if passed in
-            if exclusions is not None:
-                self._dict['exclusions'] = exclusions
-            if question_name:
-                self._dict['instance']['instanceName'] = question_name
+            if "exclusions" in kwargs:
+                self._dict['exclusions'] = kwargs.get("exclusions")
+            if "question_name" in kwargs:
+                self._dict['instance']['instanceName'] = kwargs.get(
+                    "question_name")
             else:
                 self._dict['instance']['instanceName'] = (
                     "__{}_{}".format(
@@ -94,14 +98,18 @@ class QuestionMeta(type):
 
             # Validate that we are not accepting invalid kwargs/variables
             instance_vars = self._dict['instance'].get('variables', {})
-            var_difference = set(kwargs.keys()).difference(instance_vars)
+            additional_kwargs = {'exclusions', 'question_name'}
+            allowed_kwargs = set(instance_vars)
+            allowed_kwargs.update(additional_kwargs)
+            var_difference = set(kwargs.keys()).difference(allowed_kwargs)
             if var_difference:
                 raise QuestionValidationException(
                     "Received unsupported parameters/variables: {}".format(
                         var_difference))
             # Set question-specific parameters
             for var_name, var_value in kwargs.items():
-                instance_vars[var_name]['value'] = var_value
+                if var_name not in additional_kwargs:
+                    instance_vars[var_name]['value'] = var_value
 
         # Define signature. Helps with tab completion. Python3 centric
         if PY3:

diff --git a/tests/question/test_question.py b/tests/question/test_question.py
index 55ed682..0246b08 100644
--- a/tests/question/test_question.py
+++ b/tests/question/test_question.py
@@ -273,3 +273,10 @@ def test_question_name():
     inferred_name = qclass()
     assert inferred_name.get_name().startswith(
         '__{}_'.format(TEST_QUESTION_NAME))
+
+
+def test_question_positional_args():
+    """Test that a question constructor rejects positional arguments."""
+    qname, qclass = _load_question_dict(TEST_QUESTION_DICT)
+    with pytest.raises(TypeError):
+        qclass("positional")

Error out on default parameters
pybatfish lets me ask `bfq.nodeProperties("garbage")` and returns an answer happily. It should instead produce an error.
tests/question/test_question.py::test_question_positional_args
tests/question/test_question.py::test_min_length tests/question/test_question.py::test_valid_comparator tests/question/test_question.py::test_validate_allowed_values tests/question/test_question.py::test_validate_old_allowed_values tests/question/test_question.py::test_validate_allowed_values_list tests/question/test_question.py::test_validate_old_allowed_values_list tests/question/test_question.py::test_compute_docstring tests/question/test_question.py::test_compute_var_help_with_no_allowed_values tests/question/test_question.py::test_compute_var_help_with_allowed_values tests/question/test_question.py::test_compute_var_help_with_new_and_old_allowed_values tests/question/test_question.py::test_compute_var_help_with_old_allowed_values tests/question/test_question.py::test_process_variables tests/question/test_question.py::test_load_dir_questions tests/question/test_question.py::test_list_questions tests/question/test_question.py::test_make_check tests/question/test_question.py::test_question_name