calicoast,
As nunyun correctly pointed out, the fact that a question is prefaced with, "Other than what you told me..." is no clear indication of whether it is a relevant or "control" question.
However, the question, "Do you plan on lying to me during the course of this examination?" is not an irrelevant question. It usually serves as a "sacrifice" relevant question (that is, one that is not scored). "Sacrifice" relevant questions are discussed in Chapter 3 of
The Lie Behind the Lie Detector (at p. 95 of the 3rd edition).
In addition, a question about driving while under the influence of alcohol has actually been used as a probable-lie
"control" question by federal agencies (and, I suspect, many state and local ones). I was very surprised that this would be the case, but it's true: it's one of the "control" questions that was included in
my FBI pre-employment polygraph "test" in 1995. The FBI and other federal agencies have actually assumed that even persons they would want to hire have driven while drunk and will lie about it during a pre-employment polygraph examination.
Interestingly, this question is not included in the list of "control" (or "comparison") questions provided in DoDPI's
Law Enforcement Pre-Employment Test dated January 2002 (see p. 17), and it is to be hoped that it has been discarded by federal agencies. But I suspect that even if it has been abandoned by some or all federal agencies, it is still being used as a "control" question elsewhere.
For more on "control" questions and how to recognize them, review pp. 96-105 and 139-143 of the 3rd edition of
TLBTLD.