I'm creating a test for one of my classes

[ashling]

10 questions to go ... ask me anything.

[olddots]

1. Why do you do the things you do ?

n/t

[ashling]

2. well,

almost anything.

[TexasTowelie]

3. Why did I never realize that I paired a black sock with a navy blue sock

until I already arrived at work?

[ashling]

6. let me rephrase that original post

ask me anything about which I give a sh**

[solemnspace]

4. 1) What is the subject of the class?; 2) What is the air speed velocity of an unladened swallow?;

3) Is the glass half empty or did you drink the rest?
4) How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if it actually gave a damn?
5) You have ten apples and you give three to your friend. What color are the apples?
6) Name this tune in zero notes.
7) Do you know the way to San Jose?
8) Assuming you could go back in time and meet any historical figure you want, what playlist would you have on your iPod?
9) What size socket wrench do you use to set the timing on a '65 Ford Falcon with a 289?
10) What is your favorite color?

[olddots]

8. go with number 9

all of these questions are mentally challenging and would make for a very hard test at an Ivy League school .

[solemnspace]

11. Well yeah, like anyone at an Ivy League school would even KNOW how to set timing.

Actually, I doubt any of them would know how to change the oil in a car of ANY age. Timing's all computer controlled now, but I can still do it on an old engine and I still have my timing light, although I got to a point where I just did it by ear. Six degrees BDC is pretty easy to judge just by twisting the distributor while you rev the engine at the carb. It's very close to becoming a lost art.

[ashling]

9. The class is on The Principles and Institutions of American and Texas Systems of Government,

according to the college

2. depends

3. no

4. enough

5. laptop

6.

7. no

8. I don't have an ipod

9. That's a trick question

10. see # 5

[solemnspace]

13. 2) African or European?; 9) It is not. I know the size and I'm not telling.

Hint: It's in US units, not metric.

[whistler162]

16. Hold it..... since when does

Texas have a system of government. I thought that went out with Sam Houston!

[ashling]

18. Actually,

Ann Richards

[OriginalGeek]

23. All I know is

When Ann was Gov, the Cowboys won superbowls.


I miss Ann.

[whistler162]

26. Nah... can't count annomalies in

annalysizing politics!

[KG]

5. we all know nothing matters. but what if it did?

[ashling]

10. what if it did?

[Ikonoklast]

7. Are you in one of these pictures?

[ashling]

12. No

[sarge43]

14. In case you need an essay question

"Describe the universe and give two examples."

[ashling]

15. My students don't want an essay question

they want an easy question.

[Curmudgeoness]

19. All the more reason to include an essay question.

How long have you been teaching? You don't know how to have fun yet.

[ashling]

20. The prior answer was tongue in cheek

On their last test I gave them just excerpts from some of the fundamental Supreme Court Cases and had them write about the case and its significance - of course they had to figure out which case it was. Come to think of it, that was in the other half of this course.

[Ron Obvious]

17. These get progressively harder...

History:

Which city was destroyed by an atom bomb to end WWII?
How many people were killed?
What were their names?

[Callmecrazy]

21. Who put the ram in the rama-lama-ding-dong?

[ashling]

22. I'll have to Dodge that one

[OriginalGeek]

24. that was truckin' funny.

[ashling]

25. Thanks, I pickup the laughs where I can