# Funny Exam Answers Funny Exam Answers are photos and lists of student test responses that either misread a serious question or answer it with a deadpan joke. The genre started as a text list on the BBC News Lancashire blog in August 2002 and grew into a long-running Reddit and Facebook staple through the early 2010s. ## Overview Funny Exam Answers are photos and typed lists of student test responses where the writer either misreads the question or answers it in a deliberately absurd way[1]. The joke usually lands because a straight-faced student turned a serious prompt into a pun, a childish observation, or a totally unrelated riff, then a teacher scanned or photographed the paper[3]. Early examples circulated as email forwards and one-line text collections, with punchlines like calling Nelson's Column Britain's top war award or defining monotony as being married to the same person for life[1]. Later versions leaned on actual phone photos of answer sheets, often with doodles on the diagram, which became the format Reddit and Facebook pushed most heavily[3]. ## How It Spread Blogspot user JustSomeGibberish shared several actual photos of funny exam answers on November 30, 2005, which shifted the format from text lists to scanned paper[3]. On June 12, 2006, Snopes Forums user Midgard_Dragon started a thread asking whether a chain email of the same answers was genuine, an early sign the material was being treated as folklore[3]. On January 24, 2007, eBaum's World user ebaum uploaded a math test where a student had drawn an elephant on the diagram instead of solving it[3]. The dedicated photo site FunnyExam launched on February 15, 2009 and pulled in more than 450 submissions over the next six years[3]. A Facebook page called "Funny Exam Answers" went live on May 31, 2010 as a running feed of scanned tests[3]. On December 1, 2011, Redditor madcowrocks posted a photo of a test question asking for "an example of a risk" to r/funny, where it collected more than 10,900 upvotes and 440 comments before being archived[3]. CollegeHumor ran a compilation titled "13 Pictures of Smart-Ass Answers" on September 5, 2012[3]. On May 19, 2013, Redditor allenme213 posted a young child's answer to a question about earning money at home to r/funny, gathering more than 25,700 upvotes and 400 comments before it was archived[3]. Blog roundups like Pleated Jeans's "21 Funny Test Answers" in February 2014 kept the format cycling through listicle traffic[4]. ## How to Use The template is simple. You take a photo of a real test or homework sheet, ideally with the teacher's red pen still on it, and crop tight enough that the question and the joke answer are both readable[3]. Common conventions include a literal read of a figure-of-speech question, a doodle drawn on a diagram instead of a math answer, or a childishly honest response to a values question[1]. Captions often lean on the format "technically correct" or "the best kind of correct"[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Funny Exam Answers? Funny Exam Answers are photos and text lists of student test responses that misread the question or answer it with a joke, usually a pun, a doodle, or a deadpan literal reading[3]. ### Where did Funny Exam Answers come from? The first known online collection went up on the BBC News Lancashire blog on August 28, 2002, from a reader named Sam[1]. ### What does Funny Exam Answers mean? The label covers any student answer that treats a serious school question as a setup for a joke, including answers reframed as being from a 2003 GCSE exam in Swindon[2]. ### How do you use Funny Exam Answers? People post a photo of a real answer sheet with the joke response and the teacher's red pen visible, often captioned as "technically correct"[3]. ### Is Funny Exam Answers still popular? The format was heavy through 2013, with r/funny posts pulling 25,700+ upvotes, and is now a classic school-humor category rather than a trending meme[3]. ## References 1. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/lancashire/fun_stuff/2002/08/28/exams.shtml]() 2. [https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=31525.0]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/funny-exam-answers]() 4. [https://pleated-jeans.com/2014/02/06/21-funny-test-answers/]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/funny-exam-answers Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library