Faint!

Sheffield Daily Telegraph, Thursday 03 November 1932

… I got one question from the Channel Islands the other day which was decidedly novel, to say the least. “What would you do if you were refereeing a game, and, just as a player was taking his stroke at a ball on the edge of the pocket, that ball fell into the pocket without being touched by another ball, because the floor had suddenly given way?”

As an answer I sent the inquirer a postcard bearing one word, “Faint!”