History Of The World According To Student
Exam Papers (some humor to lighten
up the class)
1. Ancient Egypt was
inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in
Hydraulics. They lived in the Sarah Dessert
and traveled by Camelot.
The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants
have to live elsewhere.
2. 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.
3. Solomon had 300
wives and 700 porcupines.
4. 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.
5. Actually, Homer
was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
6. 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.
7. Eventually the
Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never
stayed in one place for long.
8. 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: 'Tee hee, Brutus.'
9. Joan of Arc was
burnt to a steak and was canonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta
provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.
10. Another story was
William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while
standing on his son's head.
11. Queen Elizabeth was
the 'Virgin Queen.' As a Queen she was a great success. When she
exposed herself before her troops they all shouted 'hurrah.'
12. It was an age of great
inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible.
Another important invention was the circulation of the blood. Sir Walter
Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started
smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper.
13. 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
couplet.
14. 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. Then his wife
died and he wrote Paradise Regained.
15. 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 stamps.
Finally the colonists won the war and no longer had topay for taxis.
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 divided against itself cannot stand." Franklin died
in 1790 and is still dead.
16. 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 and half Italian and
half English. He was very large.
17. 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 from this.
18. 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 steam
boat caused a network of rivers to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented
the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men.
19. Louis Paster discovered
a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote The Organ
of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one
of the Mark Brothers.
20. The first world war,
caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck
by an anahist, ushered in a new error in the
anals of human history.
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