# A sixth grade history

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sixth-grade-history/11991>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 14, 1999, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sixth-grade-history/11991 "1999-12-14T00:39:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sixth-grade-history/11991/1 "1999-12-14T00:39:00Z")

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This is a very funny posting. Try the link.  
[http://forums.delphi.com/n/main.asp?webtag=humormill&ctx=search&cacheTag=x26-34&search=Drake6&x=18&y=11](http://forums.delphi.com/n/main.asp?webtag=humormill&ctx=search&cacheTag=x26-34&search=Drake6&x=18&y=11)

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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sixth-grade-history/11991/2 "1999-12-14T00:41:00Z")

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Don’t bother it will give you a search page. Not the page I wanted.

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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sixth-grade-history/11991/3 "1999-12-14T00:43:00Z")

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Try this.  
[http://forums.delphi.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=humormill&msg=945.1&s=y&maxT=1](http://forums.delphi.com/n/mb/message.asp?webtag=humormill&msg=945.1&s=y&maxT=1)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sixth-grade-history/11991/4 "1999-12-14T11:06:00Z")

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That’s funny. It’s been going around for years. I remember reading it back in high school.

Rather than answers to 6th grade history tests, these are actually answers culled from many tests of students ranging from 6th grade to COLLEGE! Shit, that makes it even funnier. And sadder in a way too…

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**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sixth-grade-history/11991/5 "1999-12-14T12:30:00Z")

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It don’t work today.Just copy it and paste. Someone will delete it if it’s too much to quote.

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**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\
**Post date:** [December 14, 1999, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-sixth-grade-history/11991/6 "1999-12-14T12:33:00Z")

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ok here it is

So you thought you knew history??!! Here are the actual answers  
to 6th grade history tests.

1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in  
hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The climate of the Sarah is  
such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.

2. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer, but by another man of that  
name.

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. 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?”

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 biscuits,  
and threw the java.

9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people  
Romans because they never stayed in one place very long.

10. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battle fields 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 connonized by Bernard  
Shaw.

13. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for  
the same crime.

14. 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.

15. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple  
while standing on his son’s head.

16. Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen she was a  
success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted  
“hurrah.”

17. 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.

18. 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 heroicouplet. Romeo’s last wish was to be laid by Juliet.

19. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He  
wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote  
Paridise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.

20. During the Renaissance American 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.

21. 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 died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for  
all this. (Capt. John Smith was the Captain of the Titanic).

22. 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 any stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had  
to pay for taxis.

23. Delegates from the original 13 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 dividied  
against itself cannot stand.” Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead

24. Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure  
domestic hostility. Under the constituion the people enjoyed the right to  
keep bare arms.

25. 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. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater  
and was shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The  
believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This  
ruined Booth’s career.

26. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time.  
Voltaire invented electricy and also wrote the book called Candy. Gravity  
was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when  
the apples are falling off the trees.

27. 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.

28. 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.

29. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and  
catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his poser, but  
since Josephine was a boness, she couldn’t have any children.

30. The sun never set on a British Empire because the British Empire  
is in the East, and the sun sets in the West.  
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. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was  
a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered  
the radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers.
