33 Funny Exam Answers
Published on September 7, 2007 - 81 Comments
We have had a lot of very serious lists on the site lately so I am posting a totally silly list. I can not vouch for whether these are authentic answers to the English GCSE exam, but regardless, they are funny.
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. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible,Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children,Cain, asked, “Am I my brother’s son?”
3. 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.
4. Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines.
5. 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.
6. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.
7. 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.
8. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java.
9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long.
10. 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.”
11. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them.
12. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense.
13. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature.
14. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son’s head.
15. Queen Elizabeth was the “Virgin Queen.” As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted “hurrah.”
16. 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. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.
17. 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. Romeo’s last wish was to be laid by Juliet.
18. 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.
19. During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe.
20. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim’s Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this.
21. 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 to pay 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.
22. Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms.
23. 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. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth’s career.
24. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy.
25. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees.
26. 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.
27. 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 for this.
28. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn’t have any children.
29. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is In the East and the sun sets in the West.
30. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the final event which ended her reign.
31. 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 river to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men.
32. Louis Pasteur 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 Marx brothers.
33. 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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1. Cyn - September 7th, 2007 at 4:29 am
ROFLMAO!!
2. dalandzadgad - September 7th, 2007 at 5:27 am
what Cyn said.
“Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.”..hahaha
3. Joe - September 7th, 2007 at 6:10 am
#18 is by far the funniest.
#22 is the only one that might have been an actual GCSE answer.
4. steve - September 7th, 2007 at 6:52 am
I’d have to say that number 29 is the best.
5. mix2323 - September 7th, 2007 at 9:05 am
18 is really funny
6. Adam - September 7th, 2007 at 9:08 am
This was the funniest thing I ever read. I don’t care if they are real or not. Thank you
PS: 21 and 23 were my favourites
7. jfrater - September 7th, 2007 at 9:28 am
Adam: you are welcome
8. Jason - September 7th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
I see nothing funny about having seven hundred porcupines. Obviously, since the porcupine is not native to… um… there… it’s a sign of great wealth.
9. Adam - September 7th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Jason: I sincerely hope that you are joking….look up concubine
10. vallum - September 7th, 2007 at 7:39 pm
18 had me in stitches
11. Daniel - September 7th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Donkey Hote!
He was so deaf he wrote loud music!
Gravity was invented by Issac Walton!
WTF!?
12. Gr8flDdFn - September 8th, 2007 at 2:23 am
“The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere.”
roflmfao….
13. inanytime - September 8th, 2007 at 9:43 am
lol
He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday.
14. tjgrs - September 9th, 2007 at 12:18 am
this is amazing, 21 and 23 were genius, i couldnt stop laughing, 26 was also wicked funny.
“Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this.”
“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.”
priceless
15. truebedoo - September 9th, 2007 at 5:32 pm
Oh my goodness I truly needed this! I was laughing so hard that I cried, drove my husband crazy. These are just great, thanks~
16. jfrater - September 9th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
I am glad you all like them - I was in two minds about posting it but now I am glad I did
17. Dr J - September 10th, 2007 at 2:38 am
These are all from Richard Lederer’s “The World According To Student Bloopers,” which he published in an article more than fifteen years ago. I’m pretty sure it became part of a later book. You can find an online version here, but there are countless copies of it out there.
18. jfrater - September 10th, 2007 at 2:55 am
Dr J: Thanks for the information - what a great source of knowledge the listverse readers are!
19. Ashley - September 10th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Actually on number 18 the second part “Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained.” Is true. After his wife died, he wrote Paradise Regained. Still funny though.
20. Sonny - September 14th, 2007 at 7:45 am
this is great….
“He was so deaf he wrote loud music”.. so?
hahahha
21. Fritha - September 16th, 2007 at 9:44 am
Here are some more!
• His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a tumble dryer.
• McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a paper bag filled with vegetable soup.
• Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.
• Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
• Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left York at 6:36 p.m. travelling at 55 mph, the other from Peterborough at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.
• The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the full stop after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can.
• Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.
• The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.
• She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
• The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Glenda Jackson MP in her first several points of parliamentary procedure made to Robin Cook MP, Leader of the House of Commons, in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the suspension of Keith Vaz MP.
• The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a lamppost.
• She was as easy as the Daily Star crossword.
22. Simon Templar - September 20th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
LOL…LOL…LOL….
23. flower - September 28th, 2007 at 2:41 am
Never laughed so much!!! Thanls for this!!!
24. flower - September 28th, 2007 at 3:00 am
I remember having written a 500 word essay on WHISTLE-BLOWING in my corporate ethics exam, and I didn’t know the meaning of that word that time. I can imagine my examiner rolling all over the carpet reading my text on “WHY INDECENT BOYS SHOULD NOT BLOW WHISTLES AT INNOCENT GIRLS!!!” So embarassing!
25. jfrater - September 28th, 2007 at 5:43 am
flower: haha - thanks for sharing
26. Sean - September 29th, 2007 at 1:02 am
omg, I cannot remember, ever before, laughing so hard that it hurt. good show.
“In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer …” Oh, it is too rich.
“As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted ‘hurrah’.”
Way too much.
It is I, Donkey Hote, the Mange of The Munchies …. eeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.
27. Zeda - October 4th, 2007 at 4:22 am
I never had such a good laugh in my life seeing this answers ….the answers were so funny i burst into tears …..booo-hooo HA HA HA …..
28. jfrater - October 4th, 2007 at 5:10 am
Zeda: I am glad you liked them
Sometimes we need some light relief 
29. ani - October 17th, 2007 at 11:46 pm
actually, some of these are from the book 1066 and all that, written in the 30s (or earlier). but great list.
30. Madeline Ashleigh - October 18th, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Very amusing n_n
One of my teachers actually marked the HSC (Australian final examination at end of Year 12.), and said there were some very amusing answers in there: (only two I can remember)
“He died from lack of breath” (Meant to be lack of heirs)
“The cake was as moist as a beaver in a pond”
31. Bananas - November 5th, 2007 at 8:35 am
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa ooo breath, breath! omg more!
32. Jacki - December 1st, 2007 at 2:05 am
Someone who wrote “tee hee, Brutus” (”Et tu, Brutus) probably knew the book Julius Caesar and purposefully made a joke out of it : P
33. Bananas - December 2nd, 2007 at 7:49 pm
lol paridice regained! sO TRUE, SO TRUE.
34. Hoshi - December 5th, 2007 at 9:23 am
these are so funny! it’s 12:24 AM here (i’m up studying) but i decided to read this list and so far, is the best funny list ever!! i couldn’t stop laughing, worse was I had to control my laugh or else people here will wake up. More more more!!!
35. jfrater - December 5th, 2007 at 9:45 am
Hoshi: definitely more in the works
36. Hoshi - December 5th, 2007 at 9:55 am
Thanks!
Weird answers our common in our class too, but not as funny as those in the list. This is not hysterically funny, but is kinda a good one too:
“in an essay, a student answered:
Sir, only God knows the answer to this question.
the professor wrote:
Then God gets the A, you get the F.”
this isn’t exact but is popular among my friends. =]
37. devilishgrin66 - December 9th, 2007 at 5:00 am
My own answers:
(On the New Jersey HSPA’s)
Question: (Someone) wants to cut down a tree next to his house but he isn’t sure of the height of the tree. If the tree is too tall it will fall on his house. Because he cannot directly measure the height, how can he find out how tall the tree is to make sure it won’t land on his house? (Or something along those lines, this was 4 years ago)
What should be the correct answer: He should measure the length of his shadow and come up witha ratio of that to his real height. Then, measure the length of the shadow of the tree and use the ratio of his height/his shadow’s length to determine the height of the tree.
My answer: Well, if he doesn’t want the tree to fall on his house, why not cut the tree down so it falls in a different direction? (Oh and please note, I received a perfect score on these exams)
I took a test for some competition a long time ago in high school and the teacher that brought us to the competition didn’t tell us that we had to participate in other tests for subjects other than the ones we had signed up for. I volunteered for astronomy. I knew it was hopeless so I had fun, here was one of the questions.
‘You are standing on earth (I think it told you what hemisphere too) and the constellation (I can’t remember which one it was) is in this part of the sky. Next you see the constellation from the moon and it is now in this part of the sky. Where would the constellation be if you looked at it from the part of the sun facing the earth?
My answer: The constellation wouldn’t be visible from the sun. Not because it is blocked by anything, but because you would be dead.
38. Martyn - December 9th, 2007 at 1:20 pm
OMG!
Its sooo funny… i can bleive some of the answers
I once wrote a poen about hw i wanted to be a catapillar
And for my GCSE i got an A* in English for witing about pensioners being attacked b angel fish
39. Martyn - December 9th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
btw i CANT spell ver well
40. Bree - December 19th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Okay, does this scare anyone else into believing the world will end when these kids get to be adults? I, for one, am terrified.
41. Stephanie - December 21st, 2007 at 11:30 pm
#2, #9 and #10 are hilarious! ‘Tee hee Brutus’ is classic. Like someone said earlier, I think the person who answered the question (if these responses are real) was making a joke out of it.
42. Amai - December 22nd, 2007 at 6:19 pm
I don’t care whether their true or not. I started laughing at number 1 and wheezed my way through to the comments. Definetly my favorite list on this site.
43. Figgy - December 28th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
During first year of University, my friend answered a question on a Film Studies exam like this. The question was:
“Who was originally considered for the role of Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’”
and my friend, not having the fainest idea of the answer, wrote…. Molly Shannon
44. ReanJohn - January 4th, 2008 at 8:35 am
18 and 23 made my throat burst in pain!!!
45. Jagerpirate - January 15th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
I know a marked of these tings and the best one he ever told me was this:
Q. How do you protect your computer from viruses and hackers?
A. Put the computer in a safe, lock the safe, lock the door of the room with the safe, loose the door key and forget the safe combination.
seriously this is true, he told me he gave the kid partial credit cos TECHNICALLY it does make it safe from viruses and hackers, that and it brightened up a boring days marking!
46. luckyaz - January 16th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
#23-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. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth’s career.
WHAT A DUMB DUMBASS!!!! LOL
47. albert0 - January 22nd, 2008 at 7:08 am
They’re good, but there arent any questions like this in GCSE papers
48. Siju - January 25th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
I came acrs a funny qn &answr.Its real :-
qn-how do amoeba catches food?
Ans - it is bcmng darker.Amoe
49. LinkiDink - February 14th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
Number 21: Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards — bwahahaaaaa!!! All the laughter sent me into a coughing fit.
50. devilishgrin66 - February 15th, 2008 at 2:00 am
‘find x’
http://users.secsme.org.au/~pr.....find-x.PNG
‘because she’s a woman’
http://www.funnyandjokes.com/w.....-wrong.jpg
51. DevilishRoofSlater - February 19th, 2008 at 9:11 am
i liked most of these but the best are 21,31, and 20 i couldent stop laughing for ages i realy was on the floor with lafter
52. thedragon23 - February 22nd, 2008 at 10:47 am
4:45am here reading older lists and found this one, had me in stitches which is very hard to do silently so as not to wake anyone up. Thanks so much feep it up,
Hop[e you read this JF
53. doz - February 23rd, 2008 at 3:36 pm
i have no words to describe how much i adore this list.
54. g3 - April 5th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
A girl in one of my high school classes actually wrote an exam essay about The Book Of Nezzar. She did say that she thought it was an odd name for a person to have (Nebuchadnezzar would be the name most of us are familiar with). She also wrote about Menes as Mayonnaise.
55. Athena - April 5th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
I was once grading a paper for my English Lit class and it was about Great Expectations. The question asked why Pip does something (can’t exactly recall what it was) and the guy put “Because Chuck Norris said so…” Poor guy. The teacher didn’t find it humorous, especially on a final exam.
56. Lily - April 9th, 2008 at 11:56 am
31, 32 and 33 had me in stitches.
These are so funny, but are they all real?
I don’t think they can be surely people out there aren’t that stupid.
57. Sean - May 20th, 2008 at 4:51 am
“Arch-Duck”. Priceless!!!!
58. jesme - June 6th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
This is all so obviously fake. Nobody could be this dumb and this clever at the same time.
Still, they’re awful funny…
59. Bananas - June 15th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Jesme: Who cared if its fake?? It is clear you have no sence of humor whatsoever.
60. TashaD - July 5th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Thank you sooo much! These are absolutly hilarious. 17 is my favourite lmao
61. papa munchies - July 10th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Very funny list. number 7 was my favorite
62. dixie normus - July 10th, 2008 at 8:55 am
#7 was true!
63. Delightful David - July 15th, 2008 at 10:10 pm
I am in a scholarship program for “the best of the best” and they have been pushing us for six weeks to near or past the breaking point. Its finals week, everyone is stressing out, but I had to look for something to pick up my spirits…this….is amazing…just what I needed…I absolutely love it…if laughter is the best medicine..then this stuff is crack cocaine!!!!
64. Jennifer - August 4th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
lmao
I couldn’t stop laughing!
65. venku - August 6th, 2008 at 1:12 am
be some what clear i mean….i need some pictorial representation…but till now it is absolutely entertaining us…..we some more….othee than a long data where you mentioned above
66. moose - August 6th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
wow, i was reading this in a library and pissed off quite a few ppl. WORTH IT
67. QuizMasterAsh - August 17th, 2008 at 8:25 am
muhahahaha
This is the most funnu thing I read today.. laughing my a$$ over!
68. Scarecrow - August 21st, 2008 at 3:42 am
This is outrageously funny. I work in a very quiet office but couldn’t stop laughing long after I had read the list.
Jamie Frater - you rock absolutely and you absolutely rock!!!!
69. kanaka - August 24th, 2008 at 5:49 am
Pretty Gud Stuff. All were hillarious
70. hodari - September 1st, 2008 at 8:27 am
there is one student on our class that anwserd “lapland.beutiful.” when you had to describe lapland (and sorry for my bad english i actually live in finland)
71. Ed - September 13th, 2008 at 11:48 am
this is soooo gd!!! yh, its awsome . . . hahaha!!!!!!!!!1
72. Sonakshi - September 15th, 2008 at 5:59 am
Amazingly, wonderful. Splendid. witty and refreshing…..
73. billyrules! - September 20th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
i tried showing these to my world history teacher last year. he thought they were hilarious.
74. secretagent - October 3rd, 2008 at 2:14 pm
my classics teacher showed me these seroiusly how dum can you get
75. Ford - October 18th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
LMAO!!
“… Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper.”
“… William Shakespeare… wrote tragedies,comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter.”
“Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men.”
Holy shit. If these exam answers are truly 100% real, then god help us all *LOL*
76. Mark - October 19th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
Either
1) There are lots of very funny people out there
OR (and this is more than likely the case)
2) There are lots of very very stupid people out there.
I vote 2. Anyone else?
x
77. Sam - October 23rd, 2008 at 5:27 am
Thanks for the giggles xD
Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son’s head.
^ that had me in hysterics!
78. jheldavid - November 13th, 2008 at 3:53 am
L-O-L-!!!!