Stupid Questions: Here are some of mine, what are yours?

I know there aren’t supposed to be any, but… once a student asked me why so many civil war battles were fought in national parks? Also, why did the St. Louis baseball team have to go to Rome to elect the Pope?
What are your gems?
I should not call them stupid,they do presuppose some knowledge. One of the cleverest answers I ever got came from a 6th grader. We used to have a running conversation about coming up with 3 to 5 jokes that, if you got them, you wouldn’t have to take any tests to get into the gifted class. I gave an example: Why did the conjoined twins like to vacation in Great Britain? The answer was so the other one could drive for a change. This boy immediately raised his hand and said: I thought it was because it was ENGland. (He knew the names of the original Siamese twins, Cheng and Eng.)

That’s great. Here are, not questions, but actual excerpts from students’ essays:

In 1639, nuns founded the first hospital in Quebec city, just north of Mexico
The people where mainly phesants living on seigneurs land.
Without women, our founding fathers would not exist.
A young virginal colony in the 16th century has two cultures thrust together. The natives were offering their women in exchange for food protection and good quality products. This puzzled the Europeans at first but they eventually caught on.
Marie de L’Incarnation secretly took chastity vows and when her son was about eleven, she sent him to live with relatives.
Marshal Law had now been declared.
Unfortunately since the beaver was so popular, and was found in such a large number in the Upper North America, they soon were scarce, and the fur traders then hunted for furs of moose, rabbits, caribou and even fish
British timber supplies had previously come from the Baltic region of the Mediterranean.
Women’s suffrage and reform movements swept the country like the plague.
Differences between the sexes existed in the birth control movement.