Stupid Questions: Here are some of mine, what are yours?

That's great. Here are, not questions, but actual excerpts from students' essays:

In 1639, nuns founded the first hospital in Quebec city, just north of Mexico

The people where mainly phesants living on seigneurs land.

Without women, our founding fathers would not exist.

A young virginal colony in the 16th century has two cultures thrust together. The natives were offering their women in exchange for food protection and good quality products. This puzzled the Europeans at first but they eventually caught on.

Marie de L'Incarnation secretly took chastity vows and when her son was about eleven, she sent him to live with relatives.

Marshal Law had now been declared.

Unfortunately since the beaver was so popular, and was found in such a large number in the Upper North America, they soon were scarce, and the fur traders then hunted for furs of moose, rabbits, caribou and even fish

British timber supplies had previously come from the Baltic region of the Mediterranean.

Women’s suffrage and reform movements swept the country like the plague.

Differences between the sexes existed in the birth control movement.

ROTFLOL.... those are funny!

I agree that I always try to encourage questions by saying there is no such thing as a stupid question, and perhaps I would classify these as not so much stupid questions, but incomplete knowledge questions... how's that for being politically correct?

The type of questions that try my patience are of the RTQ - read the question - type. Or, even, read the text type - people will reply to an email with "how do I contact so and so" when if they had just read the message, they would see the contact information in the text of the message. You would be surprised - or maybe not - at how much of that I get.

To get back to your original question, I'm drawing a blank right now - sigh. Sorry!

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Oh, I LOVE it! That student was really thinking outside the box!

And CanProf, great examples! I'm chuckling here at my desk. 8-)

I teach sophomore United States History. One of my favorites:

I had just handed out an exam. One student raised his hand and asked it he would get 50 points for writing his name on the test.

Now here's some knowledge challenged answers:

Q: Who won the Chinese Civil War?

A: America

Q: What do you know about the American Revolution?

A: It was a war

Q: Who was Samuel Adams and what did he do?

A: He invented beer

I can't remember any stupid questions but do you want to hear a stupid answer? Well I'm telling you anyways lol.

My old classmate from 8th grade took the science FCAT and scored a 1 (lowest achievement level). I was looking at her score report and one of the free respone questions was about gravity. It asked: "Why does a spacecraft weigh more on Earth than it does on the moon?"

Her answer: "Because Earth has cars and trees that makes it heavier."

She got zero points for that question lol. I felt bad for her.