School Examination Answers.
Where are kings of England crowned ?—on their heads ! This was one of several of the latest schoolboy howlers related by Mr Ludford Freeman, Director of Education for Bristol. Other extracts quoted from recent examination papers were : An optimist is a man who looks after your eyes ; a pessimist looks after your feet. The feminine of Tsar is sardine. A circle is a line of no depth running round a dot for ever. The chief clause in the Magna Charta was that no free man should be put to death without his own consent. RS.V.P. stands for Royal Society for Vermine Protection. Guerilla warfare means “up to their monkey tricks.** The wife of a duke is a ducky. Solomon had 300 wives and 700 cucumbers, Common Entrance Examination to Well-known Public School — 1 Question : Give the names of the parents of Jonah ? Answer (boy aged 13)—He had none. He was brought up by a whale.
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Opunake Times, Volume LVV, Issue 3675, 23 October 1923, Page 2
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