Rube Goldberg’s cartoon panel “Foolish Questions” followed a simple formula: an idiot asked an obvious question, and received a sarcastic answer. And yes, Al Jaffee did appropriate the idea for his later feature “Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions.” Sometime around 1912, the Wallie Dorr Company published a card game derived from it. The game was as simple as the premise: players tried to match the foolish questions, from a booklet, to the sarcastic answers. The backs of the cards, appropriately, showed a man asking a foolish question.

(Posted by Doug Skinner)