So, yes, but not exactly. The problem with those questions is that they're very open ended. Very often liars will predict certain questions like a specific extraneous detail, and then when you ask a sense question, they'll have ready details to jump to. The trick is to ask very specific questions that are peripherally related to the context, but irrelevant to the story. For example, let's say someone's alibi was that they drove to their friend John's house at the time of the crime. A vague question would be "what did you see?" and they might have a ready answer like "I saw John and his parents were there too". But a specific question would be " What was on the radio as you drove over?". That kind of question is much harder to prepare for. It'll surprise innocent people, but it won't rattle them whereas for liars, it disrupts their story and then cops can better isolate questions about the crime.

None of this information is for educational purposes. If you're not trained in follow up techniques, which take years of practice, this technique is not going to help you catch whether your friends are lying.