The following answers were taken from the test papers of science students


in Virginia schools.  Our students are learning some surprising things!

    "Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Spices."

    "Benjamin Franklin produced electricity by rubbing two cats backward."

    "Three kings of blood vessels are arteries, veins and caterpillars."

    "A thermometer is an instrument for raising temperature."

    "A vacuum is a U-tube with a flask at one end."

    "The process of turning steam into water again is called conversation."

    "A magnet is something you find in a bad apple."

    "Ammonium chloride is also silly maniac."

    "The earth makes a resolution every 24-hours."

    "The cuckoo does not lay its own eggs."

    "To collect fumes of sulphur, hold a deacon of flame in a test tube."

    "Parallel lines never meet unless you bend one or both of them."

    "Typhoid fever may be prevented by fascination."

    "Algebra was the wife of Euclid."

    "Algebraic symbols are used wen you do not know what you are talking
about."

    "Geometry teaches us to bisex angles."

    "A circle is a line which meets its other end without ending."

    "Sound is a rapid series of osculations."

    "The moon is a planet just like the earth only deader."

    "The pistol of a flower is its only protection against insects."

    "An example of animal breeding is the farmer who mated a bull that gave a
great deal of milk with a bull with good meat."

    "We believe that reptiles came from the amphibians by spontaneous
generation and the study of rocks."

    "English sparrows and starlings eat the farmer's grain and soil his
corpse."

    "By self-pollination, a farmer may get a flock of long-haired sheep."

    "If conditions are not favorable, bacteria go into a period of
adolescence."
 


    "Dew is formed on the leaves when the sun shines down on them and makes
them perspire."

    "Vegetative propagation is the process by which one individual
manufactures another individual by accident."

    "Sea water has the formule C H2O."

    "A super saturated solution is one that holds more than it can hold."

    "A triangle which has an angle of 135 degrees is called an obscene
triangle."

    "The hydra gets its food by descending upon its pray and pushing it into
its mouth with its testicles."

    "Blood flows down one leg and up the other."

    "The cerebrum is a cavity in the head."

    "A person should take a bath once in the summertime and not quite so
often in the winter."

    "The hookworm larva enters the human body through the soul."

    "When you haven't got enough iodine in your blood you get a glacier."

    "It is a well-known fact that a deceased body warps the mind."

    "The human is more intelligent than the beast because the human has more
convulsions."

    "For fainting: Rub the person's chest or if a lady, rub her arm above the
hand."