Q: "Why is a clown?" (asks the University of Wisconsin's 1918 yearbook).

A: "A clown is a clown because the person has the face of a clown, dresses like a clown, and jokes around like a clown" (Asuncion G. Teung, Growth and Development, 1982).

"Remember?  Maybe you do, maybe you don't."  From Santa Clara's 1972 yearbook.

One of those books that answers a question you weren't even asking at that moment.  From No, Not Dead; They Live! by Wilson Gill Bailey, 1923.

A: Because they might sound like Eddie Monsoon's lyrics in Absolutely Fabulous:

From Junior English in Action.

The way this is worded, you're sort of bullied into saying "yes" instead of forming an answer that is honest and true to your path of life.  From Cabarrus' 1972 yearbook.

If they're asking us, then by all means "Yes!" hurry through the painful situation.  For cripes sake, don't dwell in misery longer than you have to.  From Cabarrus' 1972 yearbook.

Q: "Can I make it?"

A: "You can make it. But only if you go now. Abandon that corpse in your arms. Do it. You must live. Someone must live to tell the tale of what happened here" (James Barclay, Elves Once Walked With Gods)

Illustration from Cabarrus' 1972 yearbook.

Spoiler: the answer following the question posed here is that Death is not only a living entity but also a loving one.  From Ghost Trackers Newsletter, 1989.

Over a quarter century before the "Does she...or doesn't she?" advertising slogan for hair coloring, the question was answered: "She did!"  From the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville's 1928 yearbook.

"How can one musician have a reunion?"  From Express, 2005.

Actually, given that musicians are continually "finding themselves," every solo recording is a sort of reunion, eh?  And for some reason the musician invites the entire world as witnesses.  I'd RSVP my regrets ... but dammit I just love music and so keep getting drawn back in.

This answer to the answerless question "what is a book?" notes that a book is actually a place and that books, unlike TV or film or stage plays, need our critical imagination.  From The Late American Novel by Jeff Martin and C. Max Magee, 2011

Here's a rhetorical question nearly answered, and it offers a delightful bonus: whenever someone says, "What more could anyone want?" or the like, you can say (or merely think to yourself, so as to leave the rhetorical question nearly answered), "Three kinds of cheese, bread, figs, grapes, and honey."

With all the book covers that force us to read between the lines (see exhibits 1-4), we can't read exhibit 5's mind because the title looks like it ought to scan as, "Can't Read Mind Why You My."

Q: "Must things always happen the way they happened the first time?"

A: "Well, they have been happening that way.  That is what is so frightening."

From Dark Shadows episode 1103.

Yes, our pay envelope keeps us out of this picture, but in all honesty so does homosexuality.  From Astounding Science Fiction, 1938.

Q: Are you a wrong number?

A: No, I merely can't be completed as dialed.

From The Martlet, 1969.

This ad answers its own rhetorical question.  "Toboggan or not toboggan?  Toboggan, of course!"  From The Gatewy, 1971.

Q: "The end.  Or is it the beginning, as you see it?"  From George Washington's 2000 yearbook.

A: Begend the endginning (The Heart, She Holler.)