home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
-
-
- The following answers were taken from the test papers of science students
- in Virginia schools. Our students are learning some surprising things!
-
- "Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Spices."
-
- "Benjamin Franklin produced electricity by rubbing two cats backward."
-
- "Three kings of blood vessels are arteries, veins and caterpillars."
-
- "A thermometer is an instrument for raising temperature."
-
- "A vacuum is a U-tube with a flask at one end."
-
- "The process of turning steam into water again is called conversation."
-
- "A magnet is something you find in a bad apple."
-
- "Ammonium chloride is also silly maniac."
-
- "The earth makes a resolution every 24-hours."
-
- "The cuckoo does not lay its own eggs."
-
- "To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon of flame in a test tube."
-
- "Parallel lines never meet unless you bend one or both of them."
-
- "Typhoid fever may be prevented by fascination."
-
- "Algebra was the wife of Euclid."
-
- "Algebraic symbols are used wen you do not know what you are talking
- about."
-
- "Geometry teaches us to bisex angles."
-
- "A circle is a line which meets its other end without ending."
-
- "Sound is a rapid series of osculations."
-
- "The moon is a planet just like the earth only deader."
-
- "The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects."
-
- "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."
-
- "We believe that reptiles came from the amphibians by spontaneous
- generation and the study of rocks."
-
- "English sparrows and starlings eat the farmer's grain and soil his
- corpse."
-
- "By self-pollination, a farmer may get a flock of long-haired sheep."
-
- "If conditions are not favorable, bacteria go into a period of
- adolescence."
-
-
- "Dew is formed on the leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes
- them perspire."
-
- "Vegetative propagation is the process by which one individual
- manufactures another individual by accident."
-
- "Sea water has the formule C H2O."
-
- "A super saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold."
-
- "A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene
- triangle."
-
- "The hydra gets its food by descending upon its pray and pushing it into
- its mouth with its testicles."
-
- "Blood flows down one leg and up the other."
-
- "The cerebrum is a cavity in the head."
-
- "A person should take a bath once in the summertime and not quite so
- often in the winter."
-
- "The hookworm larva enters the human body through the soul."
-
- "When you haven't got enough iodine in your blood you get a glacier."
-
- "It is a well-known fact that a deceased body warps the mind."
-
- "The human is more intelligent than the beast because the human has more
- convulsions."
-
- "For fainting: Rub the person's chest or if a lady, rub her arm above the
- hand."
-