Yeah, I like this! In our games at GPNW, we definitely felt the need for this. I'd say go ahead and add some questions to your list, like:
- How is it most vulnerable to me?
- How am I most vulnerable to it?
I'd love to hear how those work.
Also, I think you can use Discern Realities and ask what to be on the lookout for.
Maybe Charismas should be useful for learning about monsters too, like if you interact with it, you can find out what it's afraid of, or what it's going to do next. I'm not sure how you interact with an ooze, but it would give an incentive to interact with the monsters before you kill them. :)