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- The following is a list of some real life test answers accumulated
- by several teachers over a period of years. (Who says we lack
- quality science and math education?)
-
- 1. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the
- Spices.
- 2. Benjamin Franklin produced electricity by rubbing cats
- backwards.
- 3. The theory of evolution was greatly objected to because it made
- men think.
- 4. 3 types of blood vessels are arteries, veins, and caterpillars.
- 5. The dodo is a bird that is nearly decent now.
- 6. A thermometer is an instrument for raising temperance.
- 7. A litre is a nest of young baby animals.
- 8. A vacuum is a U-tube with a flask at the end of it.
- 9. The process of turning steam into water again is called
- conversation.
- 10. A magnet is something you find in a bad apple.
- 11. Ammonium chloride is also silly maniac.
- 12. The school is ventilated by hot currents.
- 13. The earth makes a resolution every 24 hours.
- 14. The cuckoo does not lay it's own eggs.
- 15. To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in a
- hot test tube.
- 16. Typhoid fever may be prevented by fascination.
- 17. Parallel lines never meet unless you bend one or both of them.
- 18. Algebra was the wife of Euclid.
- 19. Algebraic symbols are used when you do not know what you are
- talking about.
- 20. Geometry teaches us to bisex angels.
- 21. An axiom is something that is so visible that it is not
- necessary to see it.
- 22. A circle is a line that meets its other end without ending.
- 23. Sound is a rapid series of osculations.
- 24. The moon is a planet just like the earth only deader.
- 25. The pistol of the flower is its only protection against
- insects.
- 26. An example of breeding is the farmer who mated a bull that
- gave a great deal of milk with a bull with good meat.
- 27. We believe that reptiles came from amphibians from spontaneous
- generation and the study of rocks.
- 28. English sparrows and starlings eat the farmer's rain and soil
- his corpse.
- 29. By self pollination, the farmer may get a flock of long hair
- sheep.
- 30. If conditions are not favorable, bacteria will go into a
- period of adolescence.
- 31. Dew is formed on leaves the sun shines down on them and makes
- them perspire.
- 32. Vegetative propagation is the process by which one individual
- manufactures another individual by accident.
- 33. A cerebrum is a cavity in the head.
- 34. The hydra gets it's food by descending upon its prey and
- pushing it into its mouth with its testicles.
- 35. Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
- 36. A person should take a bath once in the summertime and not
- quite so often in the wintertime.
- 37. A hookworm larva enters the human body through the soul.
- 38. When you haven't got enough iodine in your blood, you get a
- glacier.
- 39. It is a well known fact that a deceased body warps the mind.
- 40. The human is more intelligent than the beasts because the
- human brain has more convulsions.
-
- Here are some helpful first aid hints
- 1. For fainting: Rub a person's chest, or if a lady, rub her arm
- above the hand
- 2. For fractures: To see if the limb is broken, wriggle it gently
- back and forth.
- 3. For dog bites: Put the do away for several days. If he has not
- recovered, then kill it.
- 4. For nose bleed: Put the nose lower than the body.
- 5. To remove dust from the eye: Pull the eye over the nose.
- 6. For head colds: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it
- drops into your throat.
- 7. For snake bites: Bleed the wound, and rape the victim in a
- blanket.
- 8. For asphyxiation: Apply artificial respiration until the
- patient is dead.
-