How To Rank Your Pages For Direct Answer Questions
What do you mean?? Like forum??
Do you mean #0 position / Featured answer?
There are some points which you can include in your content and rank your pages for direct question answers or google search box.
1. Optimize your content wisely.
2. Put the long tail keywords in your content
3. Use questions and answers in your content
4. Use schema for Question and answers
Seems like OP is on vacation!