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From: F in exams: 365 days of the very best totally wrong test answers.

ISBN 978-1-4521-0857-5 (see also: www.chroniclebooks.com)

Creative student answers: some examples …

Define the term “intensive farming.”- It is when a farmer never has a day off.

Explain the process of “learning.”- A process by which information goes into one ear and out of the other.

What is a network? - When you chat with people you don’t like in order to try and get a job.

What is having only one spouse called? - Monotony.

What was the largest threat to world peace in the 1980s? - Heavy Metal, because it was very loud.

Why was the Berlin Wall built? – Germany was competing with China.

What is the highest-frequency noise that a human can register? – Mariah Carey.

What does the Statue of Liberty represent? – A green lady holding up a large glass of wine. She is wearing a crown. She is the Queen of America.

Write the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics. – First rule of thermodynamics is you don’t talk about thermodynamics. Second rule of thermodynamics is you don’t talk about thermodynamics.

What is the significance of an altar? – God knows!

To change centimeters to meters you ...   – take out centi

“Powerful aftershocks rocked the city, fires burned out of control. At least 30 people were injured.” Which type of natural disaster is being described in the report? - The end of American Idol

How do people who live in the Arctic protect themselves from the cold? – By living somewhere else.

Change 7/8 to a decimal. – 7.8

Explain the phrase “free press”. – When your mom irons pants for you.

Name one of Abraham Lincoln’s greatest achievements. – Having his face carved in rock.

Have you got funny, creative student answers, too? Maybe next time we can print them here as well. You could send them to the FMF homepage: info1@fmf-mecklenburg-vorpommern.de (all languages are welcome)