The phrase "asinine question" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a question that is perceived as foolish or lacking in intelligence.
Example: "When he asked if we could fly to the moon for our vacation, I couldn't help but think it was an asinine question."
Alternatives: "silly question" or "foolish question".
His famously asinine question about wives and servants was asked rhetorically and with utter sincerity.
It seems like an asinine question at first glance; everyone knows that the first step to gainful and lucrative employment is a college degree, unless of course, you're extremely talented and eccentric enough to start your own business, like the likes of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg.
He referred to an "asinine question" that he'd received the other day about the Hall of Fame (from Wallace, it seems), then went into a news-conference-ending riff in which he vowed to go into the private sector to avoid ever dealing with further questioning.
you wouldn't ask such an asinine question".
"That's right, Katie," you might find yourself saying, not knowing why, "and if you had half a brain in your perky little head you wouldn't ask such an asinine question".
Despite your asinine question about Christina, it is still a pleasure to be here with you.
He treated a congressional hearing like an undergraduate seminar at Princeton, and patiently explained complex problems, sometimes in response to asinine questions.
In which Hollywood reporter Eric Spillman, who might have had a few Appletinis before he hit the streets, gets his ass handed to him by someone considerably smarter than him and, I would note, with a more developed sense of priorities than some slap-happy TV pug asking asinine questions of normal folks on line.
Being one of the few computer-literate people in the school, I often have teacher workshops and answer asinine questions (often from computer-literacy teachers).
Normally this type of radio serves as an appropriate soporific after a long and arduous travel day, but I almost jumped out of my seat in dismay when I heard one of the most asinine questions of all time from an ABC news reporter, Jim Avila.
And when asked about this exclusion, senior White House officials said that it was intentional, that "everyone's suffering in the Holocaust [matters], including obviously all of the Jewish people" and that it was "asinine" to question the issue.
