Teacher: William, what did the Is- raelites do after they crossed the Red Sea?

William: Don’t know, but I guess they dried themselves!

Rachita Chhaparia , Class VIII, Mahadevi Birla Girls’ Higher Secondary School, Calcutta

Teacher : Rohan, what is your favourite flower ?

Rohan: Ma’am, it is chrysanthemum.

Teacher: Good. Now spell it, Rohan.

Rohan: Sorry Ma’am, I have just decided I much prefer lily.

Archisman Podder, St Mary’s Orphanage & Day School, Dum Dum

Question: What do you say to a slow pencil sharpener?

Answer: Get to the point fast!

Payal Roy, Class VII, South Point High School, Calcutta

Postman: Sir, here is your letter. But I am afraid it has got wet in the rain.

David: No problem. Just give me another one which is dry.

Prativa Kumari Prasad, Class VII, Central School (For Tibetans), Darjeeling

Mother: Did you behave yourselves while I was away shopping?

Eldest son: Yes, I washed all the dishes.

Second son: I wiped them dry.

Mother (to the youngest son): What did you do?

Youngest son: I helped clean up the broken pieces.

Tushar Shaw, Class VIII, Kalyani Central Model School, 24 Parganas

Mr Sen received a phone call one morning.

Caller: Hello, Sir. You will receive a million rupees if you answer the first question with a ‘no’.

Mr Sen (eagerly): Yes, yes.

Koustav Sen, Class VIII, Assembly of God Church School, Tollygunge, Calcutta

Question: Why are scuba divers always scoring bad grades?

Answer: Because they are below C-level.

Meghna Das, Class V, Assembly of God Church School, Haldia

Teacher: What is two multiplied by two?

Student: Four.

Teacher: Good! Here’s your prize. Take these four apples.

Student: Oops! I should have said eight.

Rupsagar Chatterjee, Class VIII, St Francis Elite School, Calcutta

Teacher: Draw the diagram of a bacteria.

Rahul: Yes, Ma’am.

Teacher: Why have you submitted a blank paper?

Rahul: But Ma’am, you were the one who told us that bacteria cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Akshay B. Gulecha, Class VIII, Bhavan’s Rajaji Vidyashram, Chennai

Father to son: How was your question paper today?

Son: Usual. Black print on white paper.

Mohit Maheswari, Class VIII, Sarwan Memorial School, Jalpaiguri