Genre:

Exam Paper, Drollery

Subjects:

Mathematics, Government, Adulteration, Politics

    Questions on mathematical subjects, in which the suggested answers typically play on the similarity between mathematical terms and contemporary social and political events. For example, 'an arbitrary constant' is 'Joseph Brotherton's adjournment of the House [of Commons]', while 'an imaginary quantity' is 'a pint of London milk'.