No direct way to find it.
The question which was in HNQ list will typically have lots of views (on smaller sites, they would very often dominate much over votes) and votes, high amount of votes, and relatively many answers. You can compare the question with the questions of the same age, e.g.:
As you can see, the second post in the image have more votes, answers, and especially views, than the other two. It certainly has happened to be in HNQ.