# Test answers that annoy teachers - but are amusing **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 22, 2009, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757 "2009-10-22T17:30:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/61 "2009-10-27T01:15:53Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > If George III would have realized that it would lead to a black man being President of the Colonies and Socialism, he would have gone mad. Okay, if we’re in a nitpicky thread, I just have to correct this (sorry). If George III _had_ realized it would lead to a black man being President, he would have gone mad. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/62 "2009-10-27T02:18:12Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > Of course. But most \*teachers \*would have written a complete sentence. And probably would have refrained from writing the word "funny 🙂 " after the sentence “The Greeks contributed many things to our culture, such as olives, gyros, Lenny Kravitz, anal sex, and Oedipus.” I had a teacher write “please try and write more neater” on one of my papers. They aren’t all perfect grammar guys. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/63 "2009-10-27T03:12:35Z")
Okay, now I’m so switching my major…(I was originally a secondary English ed major) ---
**Author:** ![Chessic\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7c8e57/32.png) [@Chessic\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chessic_Sense)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/64 "2009-10-27T03:29:41Z")
I did this all the time in Latin class. After the test, I’d write big pictures, trying to use as much vocab as possible. There were tanks blowing up monsters and everything. And beneath each, I’d write a caption like “Pueri ad bella arma ferant” or whatever. Bonus points every time. ---
**Author:** ![martu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@martu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martu)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/65 "2009-10-27T17:15:53Z")
Religious Education class as taught by your typical old fashioned school chaplain and the homework? Draw what you think God looks like. Smart arse atheist that I was I merely wrote the date at the top of the page and the title. Thing is he refused to accept it and said I had to draw something! So I drew a triangle which he accepted and gave me a C. I chose not to do RE as an elective for GCSE. ---
**Author:** ![Ssmell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Ssmell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ssmell)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/66 "2009-10-27T17:27:35Z")
teachers would always give me one of those “who are you” questionaires at the start of the year. one of the questions would inevitably be “what annoys you”. my answer was always “nosy teachers who ask too many questions”. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/67 "2009-10-27T20:03:46Z")
> [@Smeghead](#): > > _snip_ > > Anyway, she made us write daily journals on a specific topic that she assigned. I turned one in that started and finished on-topic, but in the middle veered into some bizarre dreamlike territory. In the middle I wrote, “If I’m right you won’t read this and I’ll get ten points”. I got ten points. > > Terribly mild, looking back on it, but at the time I felt like I was one step away from riding a motorcycle through the school halls. My senior english class teacher made us do daily journals too. One day I did the same thing you did and meandered off about how I doubt he even read them and that I could totally just go off on some tangent about unicorn dragons attacking Papa Smurf, I wrote half of the page about unicorn dragons attacking the smurfs, and he would still give me points. He still gave me the points but at the bottom of the page he wrote, “Of course I read these…sometimes. :)” ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/68 "2009-10-27T21:53:49Z")
> [@martu](#): > > Religious Education class as taught by your typical old fashioned school chaplain and the homework? Draw what you think God looks like. Smart arse atheist that I was I merely wrote the date at the top of the page and the title. Thing is he refused to accept it and said I had to draw something! So I drew a triangle which he accepted and gave me a C. > > I chose not to do RE as an elective for GCSE. This reminds me of the joke about the young Catholic school student huddled over her desk drawing furiously. The teacher asks, “What are you drawing?” The girl answers, “God.” The teacher protests, “But no one knows what God looks like.” “They will in just a minute!” ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/69 "2009-10-27T22:02:34Z")
> [@martu](#): > > Religious Education class as taught by your typical old fashioned school chaplain and the homework? Draw what you think God looks like. Smart arse atheist that I was I merely wrote the date at the top of the page and the title. Thing is he refused to accept it and said I had to draw something! So I drew a triangle which he accepted and gave me a C. > > I chose not to do RE as an elective for GCSE. Not only a dumb assignment, but a theologically unsound one. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/70 "2009-10-28T00:18:17Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Okay, now I’m so switching my major…(I was originally a secondary English ed major) D’oh!!! I meant to say, _I’m so **regretting** switching my major_ :smack: ---
**Author:** ![martu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e0b2c6/32.png) [@martu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/martu)\ **Post date:** [October 28, 2009, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/71 "2009-10-28T09:22:29Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Not only a dumb assignment, but a theologically unsound one. Not a big fan of the Sistine Chapel I take it? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/72 "2009-10-31T17:07:10Z")
I think I’ve told this on the board before, but in grade 11 I had to participate in a math contest. One of the questions was something to the effect of, “Twelve married couples [this was before 2003] are seated around a formal dinner table, alternating between men and women around the table. What are the odds that a given man is seated next to his wife?” I wrote, “Zero. One does not seat a man next to his wife at a formal dinner party.” ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/73 "2009-11-01T00:12:56Z")
> [@martu](#): > > Not a big fan of the Sistine Chapel I take it? [hijack] Nope. Still bad theology. The “old bearded man in the sky” idea was lifted straight from Zeus. Mind you, I’m not sure what the Christian rules about depicting God are. In Judaism, though, trying to draw God is blasphemous and absurd. I think that by really traditional rabbis, even the cloud with the hand sticking out is pushing it. [/hijack] ---
**Author:** ![Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4da419/32.png) [@Gala\_Matrix\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gala_Matrix_Fire)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/74 "2009-11-01T00:23:22Z")
> [@matt\_mcl](#): > > I think I’ve told this on the board before, but in grade 11 I had to participate in a math contest. One of the questions was something to the effect of, “Twelve married couples [this was before 2003] are seated around a formal dinner table, alternating between men and women around the table. What are the odds that a given man is seated next to his wife?” > > I wrote, “Zero. One does not seat a man next to his wife at a formal dinner party.” You’re completely right. But I wonder what the teacher thought. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/75 "2009-11-01T00:55:55Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Mind you, I’m not sure what the Christian rules about depicting God are. In Judaism, though, trying to draw God is blasphemous and absurd. I think that by really traditional rabbis, even the cloud with the hand sticking out is pushing it. I don’t think we have any rules about depicting God, but we generally don’t cause nobody wants to guess what He looks like. Personally, I think Tatsuya Ishida, the person that draws [Sinfest](http://www.sinfest.net/) has the right idea. He does the traditional hand in the cloud thing, but he really draws God with a wicked sense of humor. I contend he had to have a sense of humor if He made me. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skylark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@Skylark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skylark)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/76 "2009-11-01T01:41:56Z")
Hey, I took [Cambridge Latin Course](http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_IZQy8q7o42s/SsZoJfgaS1I/AAAAAAAABmQ/kN-L1Mud2lM/s1600-h/cvxkljdfoiejlikdfskjldfsjlkdfslkjdfskjlew.jpg) too. I saw a t-shirt on the street once that said “Grumio est coquus” and I smiled mightily. > [@Chessic\_Sense](#): > > I did this all the time in Latin class. After the test, I’d write big pictures, trying to use as much vocab as possible. There were tanks blowing up monsters and everything. And beneath each, I’d write a caption like “Pueri ad bella arma ferant” or whatever. Bonus points every time. Our teacher/magistra did the same thing. She called it “Latin Alive!” but it went downhill after we discovered things like watches, motion picture copyright, and money. ---
**Author:** ![GameHat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ed655f/32.png) [@GameHat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GameHat)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/77 "2009-11-01T03:53:54Z")
My three favorites. The first is undoubtedly made up just for humor, the second and third are what I wish I had been cool enough to write back in high school and college. Number 2 and 3 are NSFW due to language. [Find Cos B](http://cosbmath.ytmnd.com/) [NSFW A Biography of Walt Whitman](http://a3.vox.com/6a00d4142880b93c7f00d41425842b685e-pi) [NSFW Planes, Trains and Plaintains: The Story of Oedipus](http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/image/essay/1) Gah, there was another hilarious one about a natural disaster - hurricanes, maybe? I can’t find it. Help me out, Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2009, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757/78 "2009-11-01T09:01:41Z")
Wow, that farrago of nonsense about Oedipus scored 61%? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/test-answers-that-annoy-teachers-but-are-amusing/514757.md?page=3)