Otherwise, I'd recommend borrowing this short little book from your local library as I'm sure that I'm not going to feel the need to pick it up again. View all 4 comments. May 09, Nandakishore Mridula rated it really liked it. Absolutely loved this one! Many of these weirdly funny answers have been circulating on the social media, so it's not entirely new to me, but it's always hilarious to see this mostly wrong yet refreshingly different answers.
The boy Absolutely loved this one! The boy dutifully wound down: " I later heard that one of the producers of the movie is our alumnus. This is the way to get a laugh out of a question you know you are bound to fail in answering. There is another story, from our college again, when an interviewee was asked: "How do you know whether a transformer has burnt out? Sometimes the answers are plain wrong, like the following: Q.
Discuss the style of Romeo and Juliet. It is written entirely in Islamic pentameter. What is Sir Francis Drake known for? Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a foot clipper. Some are tongue-in-cheek, and you can't say the answers are literally wrong: Q. Sit down Q. Name six animals that live specifically in the Arctic. Two polar bears, four seals I can keep on quoting. This is a fun book to read when you are down in the dumps, or want to release some tension.
I keep a few of such books at the office, to read immediately after client meetings. Believe me, some of these guys deserve such answers.
View all 8 comments. Most interesting thing? Different types of handwriting. Some of them were really cool. Honestly, I just expected something more. Anyway, it's sort of easy read.
Aug 14, Amy Turner rated it really liked it. My favorite: Name 6 animals that live in the Arctic. Two polar bears and four seals. View all 9 comments.
So, don't put stupid Qs on test papers. Aug 21, reading is my hustle rated it liked it Shelves: education. What was the main industry in Persia? What is conditional probability? Describe the term "stakeholder. Define the term "intensive farming. Where was the Declaration of Independence signed? Name the smaller rivers that run into the Nile. Oct 02, Autumn rated it really liked it Shelves: non-fiction , dark-humor-sarcasm , school-books. I wish i had the balls to write such atrocities as a way of improvising.
Whether you are a college student, or still in HS, there are questions for everyone to identify with- I can guarantee you a deja-vu or two! What is a "stakeholder"? Someone who kills vampires. Buffy being the most famous. May 28, David rated it really liked it. When I was much younger, a 10th-grade vocabulary quiz had a word I couldn't remember how to spell or to define.
Knowing that any answer I gave would be way off, my attempt to use the word in a sentence read, "The psychophant pulled back the curtain with his trunk and stabbed her to death with his tusks. And a few where they may actually have believed what they were saying. Some of my favorites: Q. A vampire hunter. Write the first and second laws of thermodynamics.
First rule of thermodynamics is you do not talk about thermodynamics. Second rule of thermodynamics is you do not talk about thermodynamics. My only disappointment with this book aside from the absence of my own answer from the 10th grade is that it was finished way too quickly. Dec 02, Jessaka rated it liked it Shelves: fun-and-easy. Funny thing happened on the way to old age: I now realize that I could not pass the SAT test to enter college again. But I can tell that some of these questions are from college courses because I never knew the answers and will never learn them.
This is fun to read while watching the horrible news, news that even my husband is finding stressful. He didn't even mind my laughing out loud and saying, "You have to hear this one!
Answer: "1. Bottom gas. Cow burp. Maybe not. Aug 04, Philip rated it did not like it. The book was much less funny than I thought it would be. About half-way through I thought, "do I have to keep reading this? I do if I want to review it A couple problems with the book: 1: I don't believe the answers are real.
Or, if they're real, they're transposed. That, for me, takes something away from the book. I want authenticity. As a teacher, I've seen bad answers on tests. At this point, they don't seem funny to me any more. They just piss me off. I'll ask students to use The book was much less funny than I thought it would be. I'll ask students to use vocabulary words in sentences, "squalid, senile, despot, imperialism Now I find that depending on the student annoying, depressing, or infuriating.
I can ask a question, and write something I think would be a funny answer. That's not the same thing as if a student writes it. Here's something a student actually did.
From my class: The question was something like, "Design a monument that commemorates ancient Roman influence on our society. Use examples from art, architecture, engineering, philosophy and law No doubt he's off doing great things now.
Another reason I didn't love the book was because a lot of the answers just weren't funny. If you're going to put them in a book, the have to 1: be authentic. Question: "Explain the meaning of the word "magma.
They confused magma and manga. It's not really that funny. It's not the best of the best. The last reason I didn't love the book is because I've seen the thing for free every day for the past 10 years on my Facebook feed. Of course, this book has been out for nearly 10 years, so that's maybe a bit unfair. Maybe it was novel when it first came out The Facebook. The Pinterest. The Tumblr.
The Reddit. The Twitter. And sadly, they're all better than the book. Dec 29, Ferdy rated it liked it Shelves: funny , non-fiction , quick-read. I guess it was still enjoyable even though it wasn't as funny as I thought it would be. Also, I'd already come across quite a few of the 'hilarious and inventive' test answers before so that was a bit of a let down as well.
Favourite answer: Is the sun or moon more important? The moon gives us light at night when we need it. The sun only provides light in the day when we don't.
There 2. Therefore the moon is more important. Apr 19, Lord Nouda rated it it was ok Shelves: reviewed , humor. I had pretty mixed feelings about this book.
For a comedy book it wasn't very funny. Most of the answers were just plain stupid, especially the farming bit under Geography. Stupidity isn't humorous. In fact, I'd wager a guess that the author came up with a significant portion of the answers since they had all the same "OMG I'm trying too hard to be funnies! The bits that were funny were more in line with tongue in I had pretty mixed feelings about this book.
The bits that were funny were more in line with tongue in cheek or sarcastic humor from students who clearly realize they don't know their answers and are trying to make light of it. The polar bears and seals had me laughing for awhile. The banana car, was just pure win and had me rolling around on my bed laughing every single time I looked at that page. Overall, it's a decent comedy read. Maybe it's because I'm too "Asian" that I tend to take studies seriously and put it on a higher pedestal than most people who seem to loathe school and just want to get by, while I on the other hand try my best to excel.
Either that or the jokes here just aren't funny. For more reviews like this, check out Lanun Reviews Sep 03, Meaghan rated it really liked it. This book is really amusing. My favorite answers to exam questions were: Write the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics. First rule of thermodynamics is that you do not talk about thermodynamics.
Second rule of thermodynamics is that you do not talk about thermodynamics. There are students in the 10th grade. Mark and Mary want to find out their 10th grade's favorite color. Mary asks 30 people. Mark asks people. Mark says, "My conclusions are more likely to be reliable than Mary's. Because Mark is a man What happens during a census? During the census a man goes from door to door and increases the population. Who was it that helped Theseus escape from the Labyrinth?
When she sees him coming out of the lake. Dec 16, Tamara rated it really liked it Shelves: flipped-through , non-fiction , fun-non-fiction. Favorite Quotes Give a brief explanation of the meaning of the term "hard water.
Mariah Carey Is the sun or moon more important? Write two thousand in figures. Two thousand in figures What happens during a census? During the census, a man goes door to door and increases the population Entertaining. During the census, a man goes door to door and increases the population. Name six animals that live specifically in the Artic. Two polar bears, four seals Feb 01, P.
It is written in Islamic pentameter. Worth the buck I paid. Dec 20, Megan rated it it was ok Shelves: reference-and-random , read-in , stars This was a very quick read. I think it took me all of minutes. I'd say it's a good book to have out as a coffee table book, or in a waiting room.
Some of the examples are very funny, others less so. You may have already seen several of these funny answers somewhere on the internet funnyexams. The humor of the book is somewhat lessened to me because I'm concerned that many of the examples are fake. It becomes quite clear at this point that the answers are written in various handwriting typefaces.
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