Student Responses from an Email

This message below was emailed to me and I appreciated a few of the answers especially after I remember some of my students labeling the continent of Africa as the Atlantic Ocean and other responses that just make you shake your head like when did the United States gain its Independence? And a student whose father is a big history guy answers 2250. Yes they honestly said the future - then they corrected themselves and said oh no wait 600 years ago.

After scouring exam papers and speaking to teachers, humorist Richard Benson has collected student howlers in a new book.  You won't know whether to  laugh - or cry.