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THE FINAL EXAM...........You teachers are going to love this one!!



At Penn State University, there were four sophomores taking chemistry
and all of them had an 'A' so far. These four friends were so confident that, the weekend before finals, they decided to visit some friends and have a big party. They had a great time but, after all the hearty partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Penn State until early Monday morning.
Rather than taking the final then, they decided that after the final they
would explain to their professor why they missed it. They said that they
visited friends but on the way back they had a flat tire. As a result, they missed the final. The professor agreed they could make up the final the next day. The guys were excited and relieved. They studied that night for the exam.

The next day the Professor placed them in separate rooms and gave them a test booklet. They quickly answered the first problem worth 5 points. Cool, they thought! Each one in separate rooms, thinking this was going to be easy...

then they turned the page. On the second page was written...........








For 95 points: Which tire? _________

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Awesome!!

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THAT IS SOOO COOL---SOOO SMART!!!!


Just sent that to my whole faculty!!!!

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LOVE that!!!

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this story is based on something very similar that happened at Duke. Professor Bonk was the one who wrote the test.

From about.com:

Comments: You may have noticed that each of the two versions of the incident recounted above is said to have occurred at a different school: Dartmouth University in the first case, Duke in the second. Other colleges (and high schools) have been named as well. This is partially a function of how old the story is -- 40 years, at least -- and partially due to the propensity of storytellers to localize a tale for maximum impact.

The Duke University version is widely held to be true, having been confirmed on more than one occasion by renowned chemistry professor James F. Bonk himself. A fixture at Duke since 1959, Professor Bonk has long been beloved by faculty and students alike for his absolute command of the subject, his dry wit, and the legendary, two-word exam question quoted above.

"It's a true story that to my knowledge is based on a real incident, but is tremendously embellished," he explained to a writer for the Duke Chronicle in 2001. "My own recollection is not terribly clear because if I'm in the right ballpark, it's something that happened way back in the '60s. It is a great story and certainly I wasn't going to do anything to destroy a great story."

It is likely nonetheless that variants of the story were already in circulation before Professor Bonk enacted it in real life. Consider this example from a humor column published in the Port Arthur (Texas) News on September 1, 1966:

It was a bright spring day and four boys failed to show up at high school until noon, reporting they'd had a flat tire.

The teacher smiled understandingly and informed the youths that they'd missed a morning test so she would give them another. She requested that they sit apart from one another. The exam proved very brief.

As the boys sat, pencils in hand, the teacher gave them one question: "Which tire was flat?"

Whether the Duke University incident happened earlier and provided the inspiration for the 1966 variant, or whether Professor Bonk heard an already-existing version of the story and consciously or unconsciously acted it out in his classroom (see ostension), we have no way of knowing. We can accept it as true in either case.

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Message edited 8/22/2008 1:55:37 PM.

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I have seen that before ...still great !!!