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A selection of the best exam answers
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:57 am
by Hunter
... To some rather 'odd' questions. All of these are from actual exam papers. GCSE, I presume. I have to admit some of these questions are so stupid that I'd be tempted to write similar comical answers.
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 5:18 am
by BloodEagle
Some of those are quite amusing.

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:19 am
by ngtm1r
I could give another thing that Raleigh is famous for, but it would prove I'm a hopeless naval history geek.
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 2:13 pm
by aldo
Oooh oooh oooh!
Did he invent the practice of driving a car through stages set on rural roads at high speeds, whereby the winner is whoever completes the stages in the shortest time?
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 9:41 pm
by ngtm1r
aldo wrote:
Did he invent the practice of driving a car through stages set on rural roads at high speeds, whereby the winner is whoever completes the stages in the shortest time?
You're from the UK, this is embaressing.
Raleigh wrote the first copy of
Fighting Instructions, the Royal Navy's combat handbook, and as such has credit for devising the Line of Battle formation that ruled sea warfare for several hundred years
Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:24 pm
by aldo
ngtm1r wrote:aldo wrote:
Did he invent the practice of driving a car through stages set on rural roads at high speeds, whereby the winner is whoever completes the stages in the shortest time?
You're from the UK, this is embaressing.
Raleigh wrote the first copy of
Fighting Instructions, the Royal Navy's combat handbook, and as such has credit for devising the Line of Battle formation that ruled sea warfare for several hundred years
He was english, dude, english.
I am scottish.

Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:28 pm
by Wild Fragaria
What is this GCSE? Kindergarten grade? Looks very stupid and easy.
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 12:55 am
by ngtm1r
aldo wrote:
He was english, dude, english.
I am scottish.
No excuses! Nore! Scapa Flow! The RN has been around Scotland for a long-ass time.

Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 1:28 am
by Hunter
Based on the tongue in cheek answers, I'd have to say GCSE.
Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 10:08 am
by aldo
ngtm1r wrote:aldo wrote:
He was english, dude, english.
I am scottish.
No excuses! Nore! Scapa Flow! The RN has been around Scotland for a long-ass time.

Only in Scapa Flow since 1904.
Remember, Scotland != UK. This probably wouldn't annoy me so much if I hadn't been called Irish in Philadelphia once, after giving a Glasgow address.