Introductory Chemistry at Duke has been taught for about a zillion years
 by Professor Bonk (really), and his course is semi-affectionately known
 as "Bonkistry."  He has been around forever, so I wouldn't put it past him
 to come up with something like this.
 
 Anyway, one year there were these two guys who were taking Chemistry and
 who did pretty well on all of the quizzes and the midterms and labs, etc.,
 such that going into the final they had a solid A. These two friends were
 so confident going into the final that the weekend before finals week
 (even though the Chem final was on Monday), they decided to go up
 to UVirginia and party with some friends up there.  So they did this and
 had a great time.  However, with their hangovers and everything, they
 overslept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Duke until early
 Monday morning.  Rather than taking the final then, what they did was to
 find Professor Bonk after the final and explain to him why they missed the
 final.  They told him that they went up to UVa for the weekend, and had
 planned to come back in time to study, but that they had a flat tire on
 the way back and didn't have a spare and couldn't get help for a long time
 and so were late getting back to campus. Bonk thought this over and
 then agreed that they could make up the final on the following day.  The
 two guys were elated and relieved.
 
 So, they studied that night and went in the next day at the time that Bonk
 had told them.  He placed them in separate rooms and handed each of them a
 test booklet and told them to begin.  They looked at the first problem,
 which was something simple about molarity and solutions and was worth 5
 points. "Cool" they thought, "this is going to be easy."  They did that
 problem and then turned the page.  They were unprepared, however, for what
 they saw on the next page. It said:
 
                      (95 points)  Which tire?
 

Wil Stark, wstark04 (at) pobox _dot_com

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