> >
> >
> > The following excerpts are actual answers given on history tests and
> > In Sunday school quizzes by children in 5th and 6th grade ages in Ohio.
> > They were collected over a period of three years by two teachers.
> > Read carefully for grammar, misplaced modifiers, and of course,
> > spelling!
> > Kids should rule the world, as it would be a laugh a minute for us
> > adults and therefore no time to war or argue.
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Ancient Egypt was old. It was inhabited by gypsies and mummies who
> > all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The
> > climate Of the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants have to live
> > elsewhere.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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 commandos. He died before he
> > ever reached Canada but the commandos made it.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. He Was
> > A actual hysterical figure as well as being in the bible. It
> > sounds like he was sort of busy too.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we
> > wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a young
> > female moth.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving
> > People advice. They killed him. He later died from an overdose of
> > wedlock which is apparently poisonous. After his death, his career
> > suffered a dramatic decline.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > In the first Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled
> > biscuits, and threw the! java. The games were messier then than they
> > show on TV now.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul.
> > The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to
> > be made king. Dying, he gasped out "Same to you, Brutus."
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw
> > for reasons I don't really understand. The English and French
> > still Have problems.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen," As a queen she was a
> > success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted
> > "hurrah!" and that was the end of the fighting for a long while.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper
> > which was very dangerous to all his men.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare.
> > He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never
> > made much and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies,
> > comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He
> > wrote Donkey Hote. The next great! author was John Milton. Milton
> > wrote Paradise Lost. Since then no one ever found it.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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 backward and also declared, "A horse divided
> > against itself cannot stand." He was a naturalist for sure.
> > Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by
> > signing the Emasculation Proclamation.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got
> > shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They
> > believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane
> > actor. This ruined Booth's career.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Bethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf that he
> > wrote loud music and became the father of rock and roll. He took
> > long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him.
> > Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of
> > a hundred men.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits but I don't know why.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Charles Darwin was a naturalist. He wrote the Organ of the Species.
> > It was very long people got upset about it and had trials to see if
> > it was really true. He sort of said God's days were not just 24
> > hours but without watches who knew anyhow? I don't get it.
> > -------------! ------------------------------------------------
> > Madman Curie discovered radio. She was the first woman to do what
> > she did. Other women have become scientists since her but they didn't get
> > to find radios because they were already taken.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers. The other three were in the
> > movies. Karl made speeches and started revolutions. Someone in the
> > family had to have a job, I guess.
> >
> > The following excerpts are actual answers given on history tests and
> > In Sunday school quizzes by children in 5th and 6th grade ages in Ohio.
> > They were collected over a period of three years by two teachers.
> > Read carefully for grammar, misplaced modifiers, and of course,
> > spelling!
> > Kids should rule the world, as it would be a laugh a minute for us
> > adults and therefore no time to war or argue.
> >
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Ancient Egypt was old. It was inhabited by gypsies and mummies who
> > all wrote in hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert. The
> > climate Of the Sarah is such that all the inhabitants have to live
> > elsewhere.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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 commandos. He died before he
> > ever reached Canada but the commandos made it.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. He Was
> > A actual hysterical figure as well as being in the bible. It
> > sounds like he was sort of busy too.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we
> > wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a young
> > female moth.
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > Socrates was a famous old Greek teacher who went around giving
> > People advice. They killed him. He later died from an overdose of
> > wedlock which is apparently poisonous. After his death, his career
> > suffered a dramatic decline.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > In the first Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled
> > biscuits, and threw the! java. The games were messier then than they
> > show on TV now.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul.
> > The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to
> > be made king. Dying, he gasped out "Same to you, Brutus."
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw
> > for reasons I don't really understand. The English and French
> > still Have problems.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen," As a queen she was a
> > success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted
> > "hurrah!" and that was the end of the fighting for a long while.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper
> > which was very dangerous to all his men.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare.
> > He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never
> > made much and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies,
> > comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He
> > wrote Donkey Hote. The next great! author was John Milton. Milton
> > wrote Paradise Lost. Since then no one ever found it.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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 backward and also declared, "A horse divided
> > against itself cannot stand." He was a naturalist for sure.
> > Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by
> > signing the Emasculation Proclamation.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got
> > shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. They
> > believe the assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposingly insane
> > actor. This ruined Booth's career.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Bethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf that he
> > wrote loud music and became the father of rock and roll. He took
> > long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him.
> > Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > 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.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of
> > a hundred men.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbits but I don't know why.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Charles Darwin was a naturalist. He wrote the Organ of the Species.
> > It was very long people got upset about it and had trials to see if
> > it was really true. He sort of said God's days were not just 24
> > hours but without watches who knew anyhow? I don't get it.
> > -------------! ------------------------------------------------
> > Madman Curie discovered radio. She was the first woman to do what
> > she did. Other women have become scientists since her but they didn't get
> > to find radios because they were already taken.
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Karl Marx was one of the Marx Brothers. The other three were in the
> > movies. Karl made speeches and started revolutions. Someone in the
> > family had to have a job, I guess.