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Alleged Actual Answers to Sixth Grade History tests

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  1. larkinmj

    larkinmj New Member

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    Someone sent this list to me-I don't know if it's authentic or not, but if it is- ar skools ar in trubble!

    Alleged Actual Answers to Sixth Grade History tests:

    1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. 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 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.

    13. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.

    14. In mid evil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.

    15. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head.

    16. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted, "hurrah."

    17. 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.

    18. 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 heroicouplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet.

    19. 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.

    20. 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.

    21. 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 died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.

    22. 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.

    23. 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.

    24. 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.

    25. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother 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 supposingly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career.

    26. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.

    27. 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.

    28. 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.

    29. 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.

    30. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the West. 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. 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.
     
  2. Sufferin' Prius Envy

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    It couldn't be from a public school since it mentions religious stuff in at least numbers 2, 3, and 4 . . . that is where I stopped reading.
    It couldn't be from a parochial school . . . too idiotic for them overachieving kids.

    But, the fact that you don't know if it's authentic or not doesn't surprise me. :p
    Hey, you read it somewhere . . . that must make it authentic and worth posting on PriusChat. :lol:
     
  3. larkinmj

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Sufferin' Prius Envy @ Jun 27 2006, 11:43 PM) [snapback]277864[/snapback]</div>
    Hey lighten up- it's not an accusation of wrongdoing on the part of the Bush administration; it's a list of answers to history tests. Even if they weren't actually written by sixth graders, so what- I posted it because I thought it was funny. Like your posts. :lol:
     
  4. Wildkow

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ Jun 27 2006, 08:04 PM) [snapback]277838[/snapback]</div>
    It was your 6th grade teacher Mikey sending answers from some of your quizzes and tests back to you! :lol:

    Wildkow
     
  5. larkinmj

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ Jun 28 2006, 01:21 AM) [snapback]277907[/snapback]</div>
    Couldn't be yours- the incoherent ramblings that constitute your posts make it apparent that you never made it as far as the sixth grade. :lol:
     
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    I don't believe they're real answers. They're too methodical. But they are amusing. Lists of supposed kids' answers like this circulate from time to time.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ Jun 27 2006, 08:04 PM) [snapback]277838[/snapback]</div>
    Aside from the homophonous misunderstandings and funny twists of the original facts, I would say these answers are sure a lot more accurate, or closer to the idea, than what I heard most American adults can give.

    Seen Leno's Jay Walking All-Stars before? The answers you can get for "What is Plymouth Rock?" or "Who are the Pilgrims?" ...

    Ever ask people to locate certain very commonly named countries on say a globe, and then wince at the grasping off the mark. It's very funny if it wasn't so sad then.

    Oh, and Bush has some country surrounded, methinks.
     
  8. sharkmeister

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    #19 Paradise Regained is a good one. #28 Beethoven writing loud music is good too...