Rube Goldberg’s “Foolish Questions” Card Game, 1919: Set 1, Part 1
For April Fools’ Month, every Friday we’ll be presenting all the parts to the 1919 card game of Rube Goldberg‘s “Foolish Questions” series of single panel cartoons. These came in two boxed sets from the Wallie Dorr Company, of 52 cards each, numbered 1 thru 52 for the first set, and 53 thru 104 in the second. (We’ll be presenting set 1.) Foolish Questions — which might have been more accurately labeled “Sarcastic Answers” — reprinted from its newspaper appearances, was also published in book, booklet, and giveaway advertising pamphlet form.
Click on the above & below pictures, to view them in greater detail, and be able to read their texts.
Above, we have the box top, while beneath follows the first twelve cards.
Below, a list of the first 35 cards. Next week, the next twelve cards, plus the Rules!
— Doug
