Stupid Question Hall of Fame

The Week of 02/23

by Streeter Seidell February 19, 2009

The Stupid Question Hall of Fame is back again, ready to embarrass the kids who cheapen your degree. Remember the rules - If you send in the absolute stupidest, you get a free BustedTee. Read all five and cast your vote. And, if you heard something stupid in class this week, send it to me at CollegeHumor.com/StupidQuestions.

The Nominees

A) SCADSubmitted by Brady
While working on a problem in which we had to find the total pounds per square foot of water...

Genius: How many lbs are in a pound?

Professor: The same number of ins in an inch.
B) Lawrence UniversitySubmitted by Nick
Professor was talking about castration of young boys in the Baroque Period in order to make them sing better.

Scholar: "How did cutting off their heads make them sing better?"
C) Olympic CollegeSubmitted by Nick
Professor: So basically, if the half-life of Cesium-137 is twenty years, it doesn't matter if you have 10 pounds or 10 tons. In twenty years, half of it's gone.

Valedictorian: Isn't that the stuff they use in Carbon dating?

Professor: That's carbon.
D) HACCSubmitted by Kurt
Professor: In a right triangle with a 30 degree angle the side ratios are always 1, 2, and the square root of 3.
The Brilliance: So, 2 is always twice 1?
E) SPUSubmitted by Kevin
Talking about our evolutionary ancestors...

Lil' Einstein: Do you think the different skull shapes and things that we find are just from different races or something?