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1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies
and they all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert and
travelled by Camelot. 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 the 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. Finally Magna Carta
provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same
offense.
13. In midevil times most people were alliterate.
The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems
and verses and also wrote literature.
14. Another story was
William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his
son's head.
15. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a
queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they
all shouted "hurrah."
16. 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.
17. 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 heroic couplet. Romeo's
last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. 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 people died and many
babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all
this.
21. 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. Delegates from the original 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.
22. 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.
23. 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, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his
seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed the
assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined
Booth's career.
24. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment
was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book
called Candy.
25. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is
chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the
trees.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. The sun never set on the British
Empire because the British Empire is in the East and the sun sets in the
West.
30. 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.
32. 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.
33. The First World War was caused by the
assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist.
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