The Funny Side of Exams.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVLI, Issue 13, 27 September 1911, Page 59

The Funny Side of Exams.

The following selection of mistakes in examinations may convince almost any one that there are some peaks of ignorance which he has yet to climb : (i Mute inglorious Milton.” These epitaphs are used by a writer who was envious of Milton’s being Poet Orient. Magna ChartfKsaid that the King ba<l no right to,bring soldiers into a lady’s house and tell her to mind them. Shakespeare made a mistake in mentioning Oaten; who <lid not live till a hundred years after-his time. Panama is a 4.4>wn of Colombo, where they are trying to make an isthmus. • The three highest mountains in Scotland are Ben Nevi-s Ben l.omond and Ben Jonson. Wolsey saved his life, by dying on the way from York to London. ‘’Those melodious bursts that fill the spacious days uf great I‘Jiz.abvth refers to the songs that Queen Idizabclh used to write in her spare time. Tennyson wrote a poem called Grave’s Energy. The Rump Parliament consisted entirely of Cromwell’s stalactites. The. plural of spouse is spice. Queen Elizabeth rode a white horse from Kenilworth through Covently with nothing on, and Raleigh ottered her his cloak. When England was placed unjer an Interdict the Pope stopped all births, marriages and deaths for a year. • “The Deserted Traveller” is the most famous of (•oldsmith’s work. The Prymids aiv a range of mountains between France and Spain. The gods of the Indian? are chiefly Mahommed and Buddha, and in their apart* time they do lots of turning. Every on^.needs a holhlay from one year's end to ftiiotlicr. - - —University Cur respondent.