Real Answers from Tests Given to Fifth and Sixth Graders
You can listen to thunder and tell how close you came to getting
hit. If you don’t hear it, you got hit, so never mind.
There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet
to be discovered.
Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let people know
they’re there.
The cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation
gets blamed for a lot of things, like when people forget to
put the top on.
Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to
be called a drop, it does.
Mushrooms always grow in damp places, which is why they look like
umbrellas.
Momentum is something you give a person when they go away.
Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun, but
I have never been able to make out the numbers.
When planets run around and around in circles, we say they are
orbiting. When people do it, we say they are crazy.
One of the main causes of dust is janitors.
A census taker is a man who goes from house to house increasing
the population.