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While the name may be recent, the FAQ format itself is quite old.

For instance, Matthew Hopkins wrote The Discovery of Witches in 1647 as a list of questions and answers, introduced as " Certaine Queries answered ".

Many old catechisms are in a question-and-answer ( Q & A ) format.

Summa Theologica, written by Thomas Aquinas in the second half of the 13th century, is a series of common questions about Christianity to which he wrote a series of replies.