Should you ask to ask 2 questions?
I think so Nash, the first question would be to politely ask for permission to ask the second, so your second question would then be the question you actually wanted an answer to in the first place.
So if you asked a permission and then asked a single question after permission was granted, you would be asking two questions. So you should ask for permission to ask two questions, assuming permission would be granted to ask the first in order to ask the second question.