What's the stupidest question you've ever heard or said in class?

@swedihgame

Жыл бұрын

"What is a colonel?" By the teacher and when it got answered, some student asked ."Is it like csgo ranks?"

@ndld4955

Жыл бұрын

So it's fair to say magellan got dock some credit points taken off his "assignment" because he didn't complete it ..😏 To be honest he had a good excuse.. for once .. Being dead and all ..😏 Still you can't complain about his performance.. he just out sourced it to his ships crew..

@laurencewinch-furness9450

Жыл бұрын

Best/worst answer to an exam question I ever heard of was: "Who was upset about the return of the prodigal son?" "The fatted calf"

@TheIestynrhys

Жыл бұрын

Not a question, but when I was studying my A levels (the UK equivalent of the US' high school diploma I think), we studied Nazi Germany in our history class. 2 weeks before our final exam during revision one of the girls actually said "OMG it's just hit me that this all actually happened". She didn't think for the nearly 2 years up until our final exam that what we were studying, in history, actually happened in history.

@ConnorSinclairCavin

Жыл бұрын

The senior year highschool student in my class back in the day who, when prefaced with the question “does anyone know where china is” responded with “oh, thats the country in Paris right?” With an absolutely straight face, and couldn’t understand all the looks of pity they suddenly got…

Some guy in history class asked “what year was the war of 1812?” Some other guy in the class screamed “What did you think 1812 was the fuckin address!?” Right in the middle of class 😂

@masansr

Жыл бұрын

Well, how long did The Hundred Year War lasted, an in what month did The October Revolution happen?

@michealsoh8432

Жыл бұрын

@@masansrell at least these make sense because it wasn’t even the exact amount of time

@nathanclaflin4352

9 ай бұрын

@@masansr 116 years and November (at least by the gregorian calender, October by the Julien), 2 questions that sound dumb but actually have misleading answers

@cardinalhamneggs5253

6 ай бұрын

Also, the War of 1812 ended in 1814

@EatAnOctorok

5 ай бұрын

I heard that exact response in a Joe Santagato video reading tweets.

In my Gov/Econ class my senior year, a girl in our class asked “If people are so poor, why don’t they just print more money?” We had just been talking about inflation. There was also a large Mercator map of the earth on the wall of the classroom. I heard from the teacher of that class that another student he had years ago pointed to that map and dead serious asked him “So what happens when you reach the end?”

@homemovelha4173

Жыл бұрын

That girl probably grew up to be a left-wing "Economist"

I head canon that the Easter bunny just steals eggs and replaces the fertilized chicken with candy

@bumblebeeyellowdragon

Жыл бұрын

I shot the Easter Bunny and he killed me.

@henryJBonaparte

Жыл бұрын

No, it was the easter Bunny who help the new resurrected Jesus out of the tomb, and he then showed him the way to wherever Maria Magdalene was... To tell her he was back from the dead. The Easter bunny then became Jesus long lasting companion as he went on to make new wonders. And God gave him the ability to lay eggs... Inorder to feed starving Roman Children, filled with monotheistic love. Until noone wanted to be a roman anymore.

@meganryan5889

Жыл бұрын

​@@bumblebeeyellowdragon ?????

@pheenix135

Жыл бұрын

He's actually leaving the chocolate eggs for birds like bird santa, but humans made it all about themselves as usual

@stevefurrier9932

2 ай бұрын

I heard it was a mistranslation from German,cause in Germa an anbrevistion name for chicken, and the full nae for a bunny hadone letter difference, and he tramslator messed it up.

Not in my class, but one of my teachers in college had a anthropology course with a module about racism. Apparently, one guy asked if he had to quit being racist in order to get a passing grade 😅 She said he was fine, but that he could use the course to help look into himself in order to find what made him racist in the first place

@bumblebeeyellowdragon

Жыл бұрын

Ah shit you mean I have to stop being hateful and bigoted to be a good person? That sucks.

@watching7721

Жыл бұрын

"You still practice casual racism? Go competitive"

I was helping my niece with her chemistry homework at one point, and I had to explain to her mother, my sister (who was 28 at the time), that Earth, Fire, Air, and Water were not, in fact, the real elements.

@aldbgbnkladg

Жыл бұрын

you forgot the element of surprise, of course 🤔

@Cornu341

Жыл бұрын

Add in a sprinkle of love/empathy and you have Captain Planet.

During my freshman year of high school, we were in the last two weeks before school let out for Summer break, and our homeroom teacher was going over things that needed to be finished before the last day of school. At one point he said "The library needs all outstanding books to be returned by the end of the week," at which point one of my classmates raised her hand and asked in complete seriousness "What about books that aren't so great?"

@copocopocopocopo

Жыл бұрын

That... was probably just a joke, and a decent one at that 😂😂😂. Because, ya know, "outstanding" means both "in great quality" AND "yet to be returned."

@Merennulli

Жыл бұрын

@@copocopocopocopo Yep. Part of the fun of telling those kind of jokes is keeping it deadpan so it takes a moment before people realize what you've said. 😂

"there are no stupid questions" - every teacher until they met me. My take would be: There are many stupid questions, yet it is worth discussing them. And sometimes they turn out to be way less stupid when we start thinking about them.

@doyouwanttogivemelekiss3097

Жыл бұрын

An example: "is infertility hereditary?" - aren't there recessive genes - (e.g. Red hair) so wouldn't it be possible to have something similar and hereditary with infertility, such that (e.g.) every other male heir would be infertile? As a non-biologist, this question looks stupid at first glance, but at a second glance, I think it is an absolutely legit question to ask in a high school.

@Dead25m

Жыл бұрын

I mean, if people didn't ask those stupid questions (that they don't think are stupid themselves), it'd take much longer, or they would never know they were wrong. Mocked for it? Sure. Learned something? Every time.

@mbdg6810

Жыл бұрын

"There are no stupid questions. There are self-answerable , misguided and poorly worded questions however" - Me

The intro editing was hilarious, bless you Mr Terry 😂

@jaddyd424

Жыл бұрын

Or lack thereof lol

@lbell1703

Жыл бұрын

I thought I was the only one who noticed for a second

@adrieloduckdodgers

8 ай бұрын

The 69 likes, LETSSS GOOOOOO!

@Rosebud076

7 ай бұрын

I don’t think there was any editing lol

I had a high school history teacher that would sometimes share stupid answers in tests she had seen. There was one question showing a drawn transection of an ancient wooden celtic structure with a piece cut out at the side to show the inside as well. It asked why a building like this wouldn't last as long as some other buildings made of stone or brick. Someone answered "because there's a hole in the wall".

@pcbloxnews

Жыл бұрын

Someone in my class spelt JFK as J5C Yeah no clue how you screw up that bad

@pcbloxnews

Жыл бұрын

It was on paper so no typo

Shakespeare writing Titanic- The Titanic hits the iceberg Captain Edward John Smith: "Tis but a scratch"

In high school during sex ed class, the teacher explained that crabs can be spread by rubbing your pubic hairs against someone else's, and I had to ask, "who just rubs their pubic hairs together?"

@jordandino417

Жыл бұрын

What does the teacher mean by “crabs can be spread”?

Yes, this type of stuff actually happens. I had a friend in college that was notorious for asking the dumbest questions. One night, in 2008ish during Barack Obama's first election, we were all sitting on a patio and there was a lull in the conversation and out of nowhere she asks "Wasn't Martin Luther King our first black president?" On another occasion she was seen in deep thought and asked "Do strawberries grow on vines or plants?"

@lazaraferrer9013

Жыл бұрын

Lol I remember asking my teacher the same question when in elementary school the question was what we would think of having a black president and if we thought we would ever have a black president. I could have sworn on my life that Mr Martin Luther king had been one of our presidents 😅 in the same class on the same day I then asked “ but… wasn’t president Lincoln our first black president” I will never forget the way the teacher looked at me I think she was a savage holding her composure the way she did she then took me under her wing and tutored me in history It’s what made me fall in LOVE with the subject of history. Thanx for reminding me of a very fond memory ❤

During last semester of nursing school we learned how to remove, clean and insert a glass eye, and the person teaching us actually had one himself. When it was time for questions this future nurse asked him if his eyesight improved or got worse through said glass eye. No, she did not graduate because she was actually quite daft.

@DarthOmelette

11 ай бұрын

Shame about her, but I hope the teacher has had some fun with teaching such a thing while having a glass eye himself.

My two favorite from high-school were from Spanish class and English. A girl in Spanish asked "Why do they call it Spanish if they speak it in Mexico"😅. The other girl asked in English after he was brought up "Wait, wasn't Hitler like our worst President ever" she claimed she said "the" instead of "our" but even then. Alot of times guys would ask dumb questions jokingly. I remember my one friend who had a 4.0 asking the science teacher "who invented the sun".

I think the Easter Bunny is kinda like the Christmas Tree. It's a part of an amalgamation of pagan ideas into a Christian holiday. The spring equinox has long been celebrated as a time of new life, with many species producing young around this time. That's why chicks, lambs, and rabbits are often linked to Easter celebrations. It was the Germans who brought the Easter Bunny to America, though originally it is a Hare called the Osterhase (Easter Hare). Anecdotally, the Easter Bunny in Britain seems to have been an American import, combined with our tradition of giving chocolate eggs. I remember when I was very young (I would guess between 6 and 8) I was told by a teacher that we gave eggs because the boulder that blocked Jesus' tomb was egg shaped. That always struck me as tenuous when there is already the spring birth connection, with an egg being the ultimate symbol of birth. I learnt that teachers aren't infallible that day xD As for stupid history questions, I remember a very silly answer that was given in full earnest. In the first class of covering the Napoleonic wars the teacher asked "Can anyone here tell me who Napoleon was?" and my classmate said "The guy who invented ice cream". I realised he was thinking of Neapolitan ice cream.

@cervanntes

Жыл бұрын

Yep. The spring equinox was associated with rebirth and fertility, so it's not surprising that rabbits/hares, eggs, and similar symbols of fertility became associated with that day. As Christian holidays became more prevalent, some of the older traditions just merged with the newer holidays falling around the same time.

@bumblebeeyellowdragon

Жыл бұрын

The official origin of the Easter Bunny is unclear but there are speculations.

@bus6292

Жыл бұрын

I want to live in a world where Napoleon Bonaparte invented ice cream because that would be delightfully weird.

@makimaki500

4 ай бұрын

Now I want some Napoleonic ice cream... smoking gunpowder flavor

When I was in elementary school, my science teacher was teaching us a special lesson on bats and one of my classmates asked if vampire bats were real. Even though the teacher said “yes”, this guy started an argument about how vampire bats couldn’t be real. He only believed our teacher when she showed us a video of vampire bats feeding on a cow. I still remember the shocked look on his face!

I was once asked if Los Angeles was a state. By a 34 year old who was born in America. Not drunk or high. My eye still twitches to this day from that level of stupidity.

This wasn't exactly a question that was asked, but I still found this funny. A couple months ago we were taking a test in geography, and since it's a test, we weren't allowed to use notes. However, this kid named Gene pulled out his notes anyway, and when the teacher came over to ask what he was doing, he just said "I'm studying" Like come on bro, you're a little late for that

My understanding is that Ishtar (pronounced almost like Easter) was the sumerian goddess of fertility. Her symbals were the rabbit and the egg. Her festival was held somewhere after the first full moon after the spring equinox. They just kinda crammed the two holidays together instead of having to deal with it.

Not from a history class, but my mate Gyll answered a question on his geography exam: Q What are some potential economic opportunities from a lake? A Fish and chips, and ducks for special occasions.

Asking about grading on correctness is a good question because often points will be given for the reasoning behind solving a problem even when the final answer is incorrect

@JKTCGMV13

Жыл бұрын

@@jimmyehlschlaeger3624 I was _specifically_ thinking of math classes. There are so many steps you take to solve a problem and I’ve taken plenty of classes where you get credit for demonstrating the reasoning and techniques even if you get the final answer wrong for missing a negative sign or something

haha, minor editing mistake at about 1:00 in my good Sir! oopsies, behind the scenes a bit there. nevermind though

@the_justified

Жыл бұрын

Right? I thought “oh, we’re getting a bts “

@BritishAdam

Жыл бұрын

@@the_justified to be fair, as a video editor it is easily done. I (or i get whoever is recording then i am editing) tend to loudly knock on my microphone so in the editor there's a big easy to spot spike in volume to mark where I need to edit from or away.

I heard a kid about the crossing of the Delaware, "How did the painter do the painting so well of George Washington?", it was in reference to boats rocking in water.

I had a History teacher that would use a trick-question on tests. "What year was the War of 1812 fought?"

@Merennulli

Жыл бұрын

That's a great one to follow up with "How long was the 7 Years War?" after they get used to the trick question.

Terry's reaction to the heavy earth question killed me. It was nothing that he could have imagined. XD

That second to last one; I kind of get her. Because mathematics teachers always want you to show your work, and perhaps she was asking if she would get credit for the work. Unlike me, who lost points for not knowing how to show my work and just writing the answer I worked out in my head. To me it was just basic arithmetics, and I didn't really know what the teacher wanted me to show. (Then again, on a mechanics test many years later, I filled a paper with calculations before realizing I must have gone wrong somewhere, when I got an imaginary velocity for a solid object. That is, I ended up with the squareroot of a negative number.)

Speaking on the question «Magellan the man who circumcised the earth», Mr Terry: «actually he did not finish».

Hot tub history sounds hilarious. Seeing Ben Franklin interviewed like that would be great. If not can always pass the idea to Drawn of History

@bumblebeeyellowdragon

Жыл бұрын

Considering how out of shape and hairy most American historical figures were I'll pass thanks.

With the infertility thing, it's not the same as being sterile. So as long as it's not too bad infertility actually can be hereditary. Just for how long is the question. Besides if you factor in environmental stuff you can technically inherit infertility

This is not about a question but a presentation! I started my history studies at the university of Vienna in autumn of 1987 (changed after one year of technical chemestry!) and in my second semester I had a Proseminar in modern History (We had History parted in "pre historic" - "ancient & archology" - "middle ages" - "modern history" and "temporary history" from the last 4 we had to take proseminars and seminars in three in our 8 semesters). So the theme had been the developments to the second world wars and this young girl had to write and presente to us about the "Hitler-Stalin-Pact". And she told us, that count von der Schullenburg - then ambassador of Germany in Russia - happily jumped through the halls of the Kremlin on his way out after getting Stalin's support for the pact! My professor and I looked each other in the eyes and had to smile - no aristocratic Prussian diplomat of that time would have jumped in happyness outside his bedroom. It shows how hard it is to learn as a historian to go back in time and interpret something without hindside or modern mannerismn.

My class was doing reasearch on computer's and a kid was genuinely shocked that they used horses in WW1 and asked why didnt they just use tanks.

@funnyyellowdog8833

Жыл бұрын

In my german highschool they told us that poland lost WWII because they used horses, while the Wehrmacht used tanks. In reality, horses played a central role in all european armies during that time. The widespread use of u-boats during WWI is astonishing, though. Basically diving coffins.

In my grade 9 english. Teacher: when I was a kid we didn't have internet Student: everyone had to use data!?

I was asked a stupid question from a teacher once. When I was going into grade 6, I moved from Montreal canada to Hollywood Florida. My first class on my first day was world culture. After I told my teacher that I came from montreal canada, she asked me if I had ever lived in an igloo.

@donnyshields4450

Жыл бұрын

Of course it was Florida

@Merennulli

Жыл бұрын

Should have replied, "No, we put our houses together with igscrews and ignails."

@bumblebeeyellowdragon

Жыл бұрын

@@Merennulli I'm stealing that one.

@mikitz

Жыл бұрын

Dude, Hollywood is in Boston, Delaware.

@homemovelha4173

Жыл бұрын

​@@donnyshields4450smartest floridian

“Can you show me how to solve this question?” Doesn’t seem like a dumb question, but for context this was in the middle of an exam

I’ve got a lot of these, but here is a few. In my freshman biology class we somehow got to the point of talking history. Someone asked who shot Lincoln and no one could give an answer. In the same class period a girl asked “goes America have capital”. This comes from my friend who was in the “more advanced classes” but someone told him “no wonder we won WWII, we’re fighting the Nazis with Abrams tanks.

To be fair, I had my bit of having a dumb moment and asking an obvious question. The one that got me the most in my high school was when a girl asked if wwi happened before or after wwii because she assumed the naming system was unrelated.

A friend of mine is a teacher at a high school and this year he had to spend 20 minutes explaining to a student that Helen Keller was a real person.

@mackenzie1555

Жыл бұрын

Thank the Tik Tok conspiracy theory for that one 🙄. That’s almost as bad as one of my history professors spending 15 minutes trying to explain to this girl that slavery existed before the Civil War.

@gamelandmaster3680

Жыл бұрын

@@mackenzie1555 I need to know more about this girl in history class. I need the full saga.

@mackenzie1555

Жыл бұрын

@@gamelandmaster3680 basically she thought that slavery was new, and created in the US a year or so before the civil war. She had no idea it had been around for hundreds of years by that point. She then had the audacity to ask and I quote “but like, were they paid?”

@gamelandmaster3680

Жыл бұрын

@@mackenzie1555 I really want to know the grade if at all possible.

@mackenzie1555

Жыл бұрын

@@gamelandmaster3680 we were both juniors in college. So 20 years old

I do think you are correct about the 'heavy planet going back in time' question being about relativity. The more mass an object has, the slower the passage of time is for that object, relative to the rest of the universe. So, IF that was the context, then the question is not as stupid as it sounds. Answer is still no though lol.

@Merennulli

Жыл бұрын

Just needs to be heavy enough that the atmosphere is below the Schwarzschild radius. According to the math, time is theoretically traversable inside a black hole, while space is not. Time becomes spacelike, and space becomes timelike. Of course, how that physically would manifest (if it does at all) isn't yet known.

I witnessed the exact opposite. French teacher (I am from a French-speaking place, so it was like English classes in English-speaking countries) wanted to teach the class some vocabulary, and she asked the class what a certain word meant. She then selected my friend for him to answer. He answered with a synonym, which was equally as "obscure" as the word the teacher was asking about, if not more, and the teacher and I started laughing at the irony, and as he realised how ridiculous and ironic his answer was, he also started laughing. What made it even funnier was the fact we were the only three laughing and nobody else in the class had any idea what was going on. In other words, not a dumb question, but an answer that was so smart that it completely failed on a pedagogical level.

Two of my favorites: When did the war of 1812 begin? And: Who's buried in Grant's tomb?

Some of these had me dying, especially the Magellan one.

I had a classmate ask "did condoms help stop the spread of the plauge?" (Bubonic Plague)

The easter bunny as it is now came from an amalgamation of roughly 7 non-christian celebrations of spring which were all stolen, bastardized, abridged, and then fused together. The main ones being: 1. The gathering of edible spring flowers and plants in a basket to make fresh herb treats. 2. The hunt for springtime bird eggs by gathering communities. 3. Leaving small treats (often cookies or sugar lumps) out for fey beings to bring in good fey after the winter court left. (And of course kids going around eating them thinking nobody knew) 4. The worship of the heralds of spring (rabbits and similar burrowing creatures) by catching one and fatting it before sacrifice to the spring gods. 5. The wood carving of various creatures who came out in spring to place around the house to bring luck to hunters. 6. Use of small, brightly colored wooden boxes to hide small winter’s end toys carved and crafted over the winter for the kids that survived to find and play with. 7. A tradition of gifting the spring’s first berries to a loved one on a bed of flowers. (There are other traditions that also likely were part of it, but those 7, and the slow twisting of the story from there, were the main start)

A girl in my Spanish Class my Sophmore year in Highschool once asked our teacher totally out of the blue "What's the difference between Mormons and Chinese??" The whole class lost it (understandably) and the next day she said that her mother explained the difference that night and she legitimately could not comprehend why we thought it was so funny . . . It's been over a decade, and I *still* remember everything about that . . . Lol

European here: Talking about Medieval history, specifically covering the black death in England. Our teacher was a great guy who would go on really entertaining rants often, on this occasion he went on a tangent about people believing stupid things. Starts elaborating on people believing in really stupid things about the cause of the black death, mainly it being cats and dogs and/or minorities when in reality it was rats. Specifically the fleas on rats. Then some bright spark asked how rats didn't die of the black death if they were carrying it. Good question. Followed immediately by, "How did one rat infect so many people in Europe? Is it still alive to this day? Is that what they're keeping in the labs?" This was 12 years ago in GCSE history. Only other one which I'd argue is a fair one, despite being stupid: "why is Australia in Eurovision?"

I spelled "Hitler" as "Hitlar" for an entire paper once. Oh the red pen lines under each Hitlar still haunts me.

I fully believe these are all real. Had a girl in my history class say she thought the whole world was America. She proceeded to ask who the president of Africa was. Another time, a girl asked “So did the native americans speak jibber jabber or English?” What. “You know, jibber jabber like Chinese people speak?” Sometimes I want to rip off my ears, you know.

This video is like one of those things where it’s like better than 70% of what you watch but then people just ignore it.

In my 8th grade class some girls actually thought the world used to be black and white. They weren't stupid either.

I live in The Netherlands, and I was giving extra lessons on English to high schoolers (around 15-16 years old). One girl asked me: "Why do we need to learn English? It's not like we are ever going to use it". When I asked her who her favourite artist was, she answered "Ed Sheeran", not realizing he was in fact speaking English...

My friends and I have a quote book of when we say silly things. Heres two: "Whats the word opposite to 'no'??" "What do you mean Alaska isnt a country?"

One of the funniest quesions in class I have been in was when one of the girls in class just went. "Wait. Are humans animals?"

Well, my classmate said "What is sunlight," in front of me and the whole 5th grade class.

I tend to ask the same questions over and over again due to bad memory or lack of perception. In terms of history questions, my high school history teacher was going over prohibition in class one day. He asked the class “what sport circuit in the got its start from prohibition?”. The correct answer was NASCAR, someone in the back of the class called out beer pong.

Grew up in Boston, and the teacher made a big point of mentioning that the Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fought on Breed's Hill... Not one minute later she asks the class if they have any questions, and one guy said, ' Yeah, if Bunker Hill happened at Breed's hill during the revolution, where did the Battle of Pearl Harbor occur during World War II?' the scary part is he was actually born in Hawaii, and his grandparents had been living there during the attack... Well at least he got the point she initially made, right?🤣👍

Hello, Easter Bunny informant here! Since Easter was originally the Pagan Ostara festivity, it was for a different Goddess - Eostre. There is a story about Eostre saving a frozen bird by turning it into a hare. Therefore, it's a hare that lays eggs, now knows as the Easter Bunny. Hope this helped!

It's theoretically possible for recessive hereditary factors to influence infertility. Obviously, if the factors express themselves, the person's going to be infertile, but a fertile person with recessive genes could pass them on to a child. I don't know if there actually are genetic factors that affect infertility, but it's possible.

I’ve always assumed since Easter was about fertility at one point, that the Rabbit is representative of having lots of offspring.

"Why doesn't the sun freeze when it's cold outside?"

The baby christening one is hilarious & just someone being a smartass.

A person who asks a stupid question is only stupid for a minute. While a person who has the same question, but never asks it, is stupid forever.

I glanced through the threads in question and can say that about half of the upvoted accounts seem to be from genuine teachers (or at least people putting up a real convincing act). I'd hazard a guess and say about one-third of them are lies, jokes or at least not teachers themselves

a lot of these if legit could just be students trolling the teacher

I asked this question in my economics class Why can't we print more money and end all the problems, I was in high school

I think one reason I couldn't be a teacher is that I would really struggle not to laugh at a student asking a funny but dumb question. And this is even though I know I asked my fair share of them as a student. Everyone does it but you don't want your teacher to laugh at your question, especially in those awkward teenage years that were hard enough when you were left alone.

Teacher In Class: There Is No Stupid Questions Ask Away! Teacher Out Of Class:

The fact that time only passes at different speed for you but never backwards makes the heavy earth question dumb already

Love your videos! I always love history teachers that like to make things more fun with facts outside the boring requirements. My world history teacher was so cool he got permission to bring a homemade trebuchet to school so we could shoot it. He would shoot a soccer ball into the field and whoever caught it got to be the next person to launch it and it was so much fun... Anyways I noticed some people reacting to this one video called "Star Spangled Banner As You’ve Never Heard It" and it reminded me of your channel. I thought it would be a good reaction for you if you hadn't seen it already. It does it really good job of telling the story of the national anthem.

I teach a lot and i always say "there are dumb questions yes, the dumb questions are the ones you are afraid to ask so you assume the wrong answer to"

My own story: in my freshman year of high school, the world history teacher put her hands up in the air like she was surrendering and said it's the French's favorite pose as a joke, and I dumbly went, "Touchdown!" At least it got a laugh out of the entire class 😂😂😂😂😂

I feel that some of these are probably real, some of them are mental block moments, and some are probably urban myth that's been passed around for a while and may only be inspired by actual events. My favourite mental block moment, I was teaching my younger brother to cook and I asked him "could you please pass me that.... uh... that thing.... that you open cans with?"

My mother teaches middle school history, and she told me that one year one her students asked her, "If Puerto Rico becomes a state, where are they going to put it?" A few years later, a friend of mine asked her, "If Puerto Rico becomes a state, where are they going to put the star?" I remember asking her out loud in the classroom to the class how a former student asked her the same question. I stole this quote from my father. "Don't be afraid of asking me a dumb question. I've heard them all before, except for one."

Omg Matt Rose! He always cracks me up😂

Not a history class thing, but at a LAN party back in 2005 or so, we were playing Battlefield Vietnam and the guy next to me asks "So.. What's actually the difference between the Vietnam war and the Korean war?". We were about 20 at the time.

In computer typing class we were learning to type letters. The teacher said to not forget to do a spell check. This popular girl did that and asked me if the word was spelled correctly because it came up wrong. I told her that was her name.

Health class 9th grade. Class whore in my class with a son at home, “what are testicles?” The silence before the laughter was epic. The teacher failing to keep it in was even better.

It wasn't in school, but at work. I get two stupid questions frequently. First one is do I work there.....no, I just wear the uniform for fun. Second, if it doesn't scan, it must be free right?

I loved the Behind the Scenes look into production when you moved the camera =D

In a history class we were talking about the discovery of the new world, more specifically the discovery of Brazil. We were talking about Pedro Álvares Cabral, who is regarded as the discoverer of Brazil (he's not), and this girl raises her hand and asks the teacher "Is he still alive?". This question was followed by a long silence.

@mindtraveller100

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"Pedro Álvares Cabral, who is regarded as the discoverer of Brazil (he's not)" Who is it, then?

@gamelandmaster3680

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@@mindtraveller100 I looked it up and did the least amount of research that a human can do, but some say that Vicente Yanez Pinzon (look him up) discovered the North-Eastern side of Brazil

7:10 I heard Easter bunny was created becase of a mistranslation from german,cause a bunny and the abbreviation of a chicken had only one letter differece.

I remember someone in my class asking the teacher what the name of the ship in Titanic was lol

4:46 It is possible. Having a sterile aunt or uncle could result in such a question.

The math test correctness question was probably trying to ask if grading would be entirely based on having the correct answer or if it would be on the process.

In 4th grade, they talked about the 10 years since 9-11, and the teacher said it was the 10 year anniversary of 9-11, and I asked my teacher "what is 9-11?" And all the other students busted out in laughter, and the teacher thought I was trying to be funny, but I actually didn't know

@reptileclub8681

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Most embarrassing day of my life

I have an entire book of stupid answers made in history test/exams, and the answers are the type of its so stupid it's funny

The most well known example of a stupid question in Poland is "If I grab the rail roads with my legs and electric traction with my hands, then will I drive like a tram?".

I have not been to school(High School anyway) for 26 years… however I was working at an Arby's restaurant and as a cashier at the drive thru, I mentioned that I was born a year after the bicentennial and the girl didn't know what a bicentennial was! SMH 😮😮

@8:45 Ackchewally, according to Philomena Cunk, it was sir Francis Drake who circumcised the Earth and he did so on a clipper. :)

Community college biology lab. Professor: "I boiled the spinach so you can extract the chlorophyll." Girl in my lab group: "Boiled? Like in hot water?"

Where i used to work there was a lass who was a manager got to 22yrs old before she discovered bears were real. Also know someone who asked "do you think they put the breadcrumbs on the chicken before they kill it"

A girl in my physics class believed that the rotation of a planet determined how quickly time passed there. She woefully misunderstood general relativity

Not a question, but when I was 7, my grandpa who was an og troll, told me that when he was a kid (around 1950s) paper hadn't been invented yet so they wrote on sand on their desks at school. And I believed him. I may or may not told this to my classmates the next day... god...

When I was a kid I thought Hitler was the guy's first name. It was awhile before I heard the name "Adolf."

I demand more Matt Rose reactions

To answer your question about Easter; Easter is technically not a Christian holiday. Much like with what they did with Christmas (which is yuletid as a pagan holiday) the church decided to overwrite the pagan traditions with holidays of their own. Easter was originally a pagan festival to honor the goddess of fertility and crops Ēostre, and one of her symbols is the rabbit. I have no idea why the church decided to overwrite the tradition while also keeping all of its symbols intact, but 🤷‍♀

In terms of a stupid history class question. One time a student in my friend's class asked the teacher (they were going to watch a movie from the UK and he wanted subtitles) is this before the Americans were able to teach the British the English language?

Question that sounds stupid but actually isn’t: how long was the 100 years war?. It didn’t last 100 years, it lasted longer

3:30 - 3:40 This is gonna sound unbelievable but I actually did. In fact it's one of my earliest memories. I was about six at the time and my grandmother's house lost power. But she had a very old hand crank tv that only had like 2 channels. And I asked her why everything was in black and white. She told me that back then, that's how things were. That's when I looked at her straight in the face and said. " So the world was black and white? Why did it change?".

Actually, Easter Bunny is mostly inspired by fertility stuff. Rabbits are very famous symbols of fertility, which is what Easter is all about.