These are all (allegedly!) genuine answers to GCSE Examination
questions........makes me fear for the future of the human
race........
1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited
by mummies and they all wrote in
hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah
Dessert and travelled by Camelot.
The climate of the Sarah is
such that the inhabitants have to live
elsewhere.
2. The Bible is full of interesting
caricatures. In the first book of the
Bible, Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree.
One of their
children, Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?"
3. Moses led the Hebrew
slaves to the Red Sea, where they
made
unleavened bread which is bread made without any
ingredients. Moses went up
on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he
ever reached
Canada.
4. Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred
porcupines.
5. The Greeks were a highly
sculptured people, and without them we
wouldn't have history. The Greeks also
had myths. A myth is a female
moth.
6. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by
another man of that
name.
7. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher
who went around giving people
advice. They killed him. Socrates
died from an overdose of wedlock.
After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline.
8. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled
the biscuits, and
threw the java.
9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the
Greeks. History calls people
Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
10. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of
Gaul. The
Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was
going to be made
king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus."
11. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects
by playing the
fiddle to them.
12. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by
Bernard Shaw.
Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged
twice for the same
offense.
13. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest
writer of the
futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and
verses and also wrote
literature.
14. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow
through an apple while
standing on his son's head.
15. Queen Elizabeth was the
"Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a
success. When she exposed herself before
her troops they all shouted
"hurrah."
16. It was an age of great
inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg
invented removable type and the Bible. Another
important invention was the
circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh
is a historical figure because
he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And
Sir Francis Drake
circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.
17. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William
Shakespeare. He was
born in the year 1564, supposedly on his
birthday. He never made much
money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote
tragedies, comedies, and hysterectomies, all
in Islamic pentameter. Romeo
and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet.
Romeo's last wish was to be
laid by Juliet.
18. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was
Miguel Cervantes. He
wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John
Milton. Milton wrote
Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
19. During the Renaissance America began.
Christopher Columbus was a great
navigator who discovered America while cursing about the
Atlantic. His ships
were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.
20. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called
Pilgrim's
Progress. The winter of 1620
was a hard one for the settlers. Many
people died and many babies
were born. Captain John Smith was
responsible for all this.
21. One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English
put tacks in
their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels
through the post
without stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer
had to pay
for taxis. Delegates from the original
13 states formed the Contented
Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and
Benjamin Franklin were two
singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin
discovered electricity
by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A
horse divided against itself
cannot stand.". Franklin died in 1790 and is still
dead.
22. Soon the Constitution of the United States
was adopted to secure
domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people
enjoyed the right to
keep bare arms.
23. Abraham Lincoln became America's
greatest Precedent. Lincoln'
smother died in infancy, and he was born in a log
cabin which he built with
his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the
slaves by signing the
Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865,
Lincoln went to
the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a
moving picture
show. The believed assinator
was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly
insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.
24. Meanwhile in Europe, the
enlightenment was a reasonable time.
Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called
Candy.
25. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is
chiefly noticeable in the
autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.
26. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and
had a large
number of children. In between he practiced on an old
spinster which he kept
up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present.
Bach was the most famous composer in the
world and so was Handel. Handel
was half German half Italian and half English. He was very large.
27. Beethoven wrote music even though he was
deaf. He was so deaf he wrote
loud music. He took long walks in the forest even
when everyone was
calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died
for this.
28. The French Revolution was
accomplished before it happened and
catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted an heir to
inherit his power, but
since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't have any children.
29. The sun never set on the British Empire because the
British Empire is
in the East and the sun sets in the West.
30. Queen Victoria was the longest queen.
She sat on a thorn for 63
years. She was a moral woman who
practiced virtue. Her death was the
final event which ended her reign.
31. The nineteenth century was a
time of a great many thoughts and
inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and
started reproducing by
machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a
network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick
invented the McCormick
raper, which did the work of a hundred men.
32. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis.
Charles Darwin was a
naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman
Curie discovered
radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.
33. The First World War, caused by the assignation of the
Arch-Duck by an
anahist, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history.
