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- ACTUAL EXCERPTS FROM STUDENT SCIENCE EXAM PAPERS IN THE U.S.A.
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- (Who said the American education system is below par?)
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- 1. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the organ of the
- species.
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- 2. Benjamin Franklin produced electricity by rubbing cats
- backwards.
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- 3. The theory of evolution was greatly objected to because it
- made man think.
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- 4. Three kinds of blood vessels are arteries, vanes and
- caterpillers.
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- 5. The dodo is a bird that is almost decent by now.
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- 6. To remove air from a flask, fill it with water, tip the
- water out, and put the cork in quick before the air can get
- back in.
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- 7. The process of turning steam back into water again is called
- conversation.
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- 8. A magnet is something you find crawling all over a dead cat.
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- 9. The Earth makes one resolution every 24 hours.
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- 10. The cuckoo bird does not lay his own eggs.
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- 11. To prevent conception when having intercourse, the male
- wears a condominium.
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- 12. To collect fumes of sulfur, hold a deacon over a flame in
- a test tube.
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- 13. Parallel lines never meet, unless you bend one or both of
- them.
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- 14. Algebraical symbols are used when you do not know what you
- are talking about.
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- 15. Geometry teaches us to bisex angles.
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- 16. A circle is a line which meets its other end without ending.
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- 17. The pistol of a flower is its only protection against
- insects.
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- 18. The moon is a planet just like the Earth, only itis even
- deader.
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- 19. Artificial insemination is when the farmer does it to the
- cow instead of the bull.
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- 20. An example of animal breeding is the farmer who mated a bull
- that gave a great deal of milk with a bull with good meat.
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- 21. We believe that the reptiles came from the amphibians by
- spontaneous generation and study of rocks.
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- 22. English sparrows and starlings eat the farmers grain and
- soil his corpse.
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- 23. By self-pollination, the farmer may get a flock of
- long-haired sheep.
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- 24. If conditions are not favorable, bacteria go into a period
- of adolescence.
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- 25. Dew is formed on leaves when the sun shines down on them
- and makes them perspire.
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- 26. Vegetative propagation is the process by which one
- individual manufactures another individual by accident.
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- 27. A super-saturated solution is one that holds more than
- it can hold.
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- 28. A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called
- an obscene triangle.
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- 29. Blood flows down one leg and up the other.
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- 30. A person should take a bath once in the summer, and not
- quite so often in the winter.
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- 31. The hookworm larvae enters the human body through the soul.
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- 32. When you haven't got enough iodine in your blood you get
- a glacier.
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- 33. It is a well-known fact that a deceased body harms the mind.
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- 34. Humans are more intelligent than beasts because the human
- branes have more convulsions.
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- 35. For fainting: rub the person's chest, or if a lady,
- rub her arm above the hand instead.
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- 36. For fractures: to see if the limb is broken, wiggle it
- gently back and forth.
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- 37. For dog bite: put the dog away for several days.
- If he has not recovered, then kill it.
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- 38. For nosebleed: put the nose much lower than the body.
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- 39. For drowning: climb on top of the person and move up and
- down to make artificial perspiration.
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- 40. To remove dust from the eye, pull the eye down over the nose.
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- 41. For head colds: use an agonizer to spray the nose until it
- drops in your throat.
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- 42. For snakebites: bleed the wound and rape the victim in a
- blanket for shock.
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- 43. For asphyxiation: apply artificial respiration until the
- patient is dead.
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- 44. Before giving a blood transfusion, find out if the blood
- is affirmative or negative.
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- 45. Bar magnets have north and south poles, horseshoe magnets
- have east and west poles.
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- 46. When water freezes you can walk on it. That is what Christ
- did long ago in wintertime.
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- 47. When you smell an odorless gas, it is probably carbon
- monoxide.
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