The following excerpts are actual answers given on history tests and in
Sunday school quizzes by children between fifth and 6th grade ages in Ohio. They
were collected over a period of three years by two teachers.

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 Syanide 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 an
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 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 heroic couple. They lived in Italy.
Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet but her father was having none of that
that I'm sure. You know how Italian fathers are.



Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey
Hote. he 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 has 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.



Beethoven 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.

Allan


He talked with more claret than clarity.
-- Susan Ertz

Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before
he cuts himself.
-- Peter da Silva