Foolish Questions was a long-running newspaper single-panel comic that played on the idea of sarcastic comebacks to obvious (foolish) questions. It was immensely popular, with readers sending in their own questions for artist Rube Goldberg to answer. This book reprints the original black-and-white comic collection put out soon after the comic began. Additionally, on the back cover, are reprints of two postcards that showed examples of Foolish Questions in full color.