<p>At this time, I was banned from raising my hand for the rest of the hour because I'd answered too many questions that nobody else knew the answer to.</p>
<p>Question: In what war did Andrew Jackson become a hero?</p>
<p>Various answers:
World War I (repeated over and over)
The Revolutionary War
The French and Indian War
The Cold War
World War II
The War in Iraq</p>
<p>I also remember some instanges like the ones some other guy mentioned before about the "photogenic memory".</p>
<p>But here was an interesting comment from 8th grade. It was after the accidentally substituted the word "anals" for "annals" when talking and the whole class cracked up.</p>
<p>Teacher: No, I swear, it's pronounced "anals"!</p>
<p>In my AP bio class, while we were discussing the causes and effects of Down Syndrome, asks in a sincere and almost distressed tone, "But how do we know that poeple with Down Syndrome aren't the normal ones and we're the ones with a genetic mutation." (I paraphrased that, she would never say genetic mutation.)
She also demonstrated a lack of understanding of why Dinosaurs can't be brought back to life by breeding two random animals.
Most infamously at my school, there was a discussion about Native Americans or something (I am not actually in the class, I just heard about this from many people) and about ten minutes after the conversation finishes and moves on to some other completely different topic, she raises her hand and asks, "but Mr.-----, what about Guam?" She still doesn't seem to understand why people laughed at her.</p>
<p>There was this girl from my freshman Spanish class who just couldn't handle the language and would always mess up grammar and pronunciation. So one day, when the teacher asked her how old is she, she replied: "Tengo trece anoses." Surely, the kid behind her said "Umm, you just said you have thirteen anuses."</p>
<p>"Is China bigger or is Japan bigger?"
This came from a fourty-year old working woman who claimed that she loved Chinese food. I just adjusted myself and said "China is the third biggest country in the world."</p>
<p>My friend's sister asked the same question when she found out I was Chinese. I just hit her in the head and told my friend your sister is an idiot.</p>
<p>At a nice steak house with some friends.
Waiter: How would you like your steak done?
Friend: Yes.
Waiter: No, how would you like it cooked?
Friend: (looks impatient) Yes, please. </p>
<p>In AP English, reading the bible.
Teacher: What did you think after reading about Jesus's death last night?
Girl: They killed him?!</p>
<p>We were doing this project for a multicultural day at school and each person in our small group was supposed to pick an African country to make a poster of, and this one guy said:</p>
<p>Guy: I wanna pick Jamaica! That's my favorite country in Africa!
Rest of Group: Jamaica isn't in Africa...it's in the Carribbean
Guy: Then why are there so many black people there?</p>
<p>1 Is that in New York?
2 Williams Patterson?
3 Is that like a 4 year college?
4 Wow sounds great (accompanied by the pity you, never heard of it, how does it feel to have surely gotten 300s on your SAT - no offense Amherst - and don't call me shirley)
5 Umm, yea that sounds great, Williams right? (in the Office Space Lundberg voice)
6 Mascots a purple cow...what is this some kind of gay school?</p>
<p>Boy: My brother goes to ABC State University and it basically has two groups - from ABC and from the Northeast, you know like from New York, Boston, Chicago...</p>