History: Greeks & Romans ( Archived) (22)

Actual answers in history examinations:



Without the Greeks, we wouldn’t have history. The Greeks invented three kinds of columns - Corinthian, Doric and Ironic. They also had myths. A myth is a female moth. One myth says that the mother of Achilles dipped him in the River Stynx until he became intolerable. Achilles appears in “The Illiad”, by Homer. Homer also wrote the “Oddity”, in which Penelope was the last hardship that Ulysses endured on his journey. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name.

Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock.

In the Olympic Games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java. The reward to the victor was a coral wreath. The government of Athen was democratic because the people took the law into their own hands. There were no wars in Greece, as the mountains were so high that they couldn’t climb over to see what their neighbors were doing. When they fought the Parisians, the Greeks were outnumbered because the Persians had more men.

Eventually, the Ramons conquered the Geeks. History call people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. At Roman banquets, the guests wore garlic in their hair. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March killed him because they thought he was going to be made king. Nero was a cruel tyrany who would torture his poor subjects by playing the fiddle to them.

Greeks are wimps...



(Especially for Algarion )

classic answers from students who obviously like to listen with but one ear and that in itself half-cocked. 'Myth being a female moth.' And poor ol Soc being 'overdosed with wedlock.'

Being generous one could say such students have a sense of the free spirit but just not a very well informed free spirit.

Oh, it gets better! Or worse.... There are too many to post at one time...besides I like to laugh every day!

What are you mumbling about Spartan.....you behave yourself

I am going to have to re-sit my degree, i didnt get any of these right when i did it, all my answers would have differed

Darn...I meant to put this in the jokes forum...I am so used to using just one....

Sorry guys!