[blau993]

A friend of mine is a history professor at a community college. She has collected many hysterical exam answers over the years, but this is my asbsolute favorite:

Q. What was the immediate cause of the First World War?

A. They killed the Archduck of Austria.

[Froufrou]

That's good, but here are some of mine:

"He needed to lose weight. He had a 38-inch waste in his pants."

"Sex is not for pleasure. It is for recreation."

[Fatuncle]

I ran a test with a question worded much like that, and got the following answer:

"Someone shot at someone else - and the target resented it."