Don't know much about history or politics--UK students

Daily Mail:

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• HISTORY

King Arthur lived in the Age of Shivery.
The wife of a duke is a dukky.
Helen of Troy launched a thousand ships with her face.
Alexander the Great conquered Persia, Egypt and Japan. Sadly he died with no hair.
Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offence.
Joan of Arc was burned to a steak.
Another Greek myth was Jason And The Golden Fleas.
Joan of Arc was Noah's sister.
Medieval people were violent. Murder during this period was nothing. Everybody killed somebody.
Victims of the Black Death grew boobs on their necks.
The King wore a scarlet robe trimmed with vermin.
In the middle of the 18th-century, all the morons moved to Utah.
Louis XVI was gelatined to death.
Hitler's instrumentality of terror was the Gespacho.

• POLITICS

When Caesar was assassinated, he is reported to have said "Me too, Brutus!"
King John ground the people down under heavy taxis.
President Carter faced the "Iran Hostess Crisis".
The U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. became global in power, but Europe remained incontinent.

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• RELIGION

The Jews were a proud people, but always had trouble with unsympathetic Genitals.
The seventh commandment is "Thou shall not admit adultery".
Solomon had 300 wives and 700 cucumbers.
The Papal bull was a mad bull kept by the Pope in the Inquisition to trample on Protestants.
The Philistines are islands in the Pacific.
The end of the world will make a turning point in everyone's life.
The natives of Macedonia did not believe in Paul, so he got stoned.
Pompeii was destroyed by an overflow of saliva from the Vatican.

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There is more from these "scholars." We now know the value of a British education. These are extracted from a book by Norman McGreevy, Must Try Harder! The Very Worst Howlers By Schoolchildren.

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