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What's the strangest assignment you remember receiving in high school?

I can't think of an older one off the top of my head, but what prompted me to ask this is the assignment I got today in chem. It was ridiculously easy, but it was simply the context of the chemicals and what they were. Apparently you're supposed to be a doctor that accidentally knocked over seven vials of blood on a paper or something. You're given the molecular formula of each of seven compounds that are found in the vials (one per vial), and the names of the people (in riddle format--that's where the calculation came in) the blood sample matched. What made it weird was that one guy had Viagra, one guy had cocaine, another had nicotine, etc. etc. just what? Definitely one of the stranger worksheets I had to do.

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GlassDog

Oh my! This has brought back so many memories. I was given something really similar, except it wasn't seven people and it wasn't specifically drugs. We had to identify how people died. In some there was the oxidation of alcohols to aldehydes (they died from being an alcoholic), in others it was the presence of CN groups (they drank cyanide), there was a carbon monoxide one, and there was a trick question about smoking, because it contains about four thousand compounds and any of them could have been the clue. If I remember rightly, it was benzene. They could have chosen so much better! :)

TetrisGuy · 26-30, M

I had an assignment where they gave us drawings of syringes with various STP volume of a gas, and equal numbers of syringes with gram-quantities of gas. It seems like I was the only person in the class that didn't have an issue with the worksheet, but to be fair, most of the rest of the class are complete dolts. One of the syringes contained air. I was like "WTF???" and then I realized--I needed to look up the composition of air by percent mass, and use the chemical formulas of each and such to find the molar mass of air. Then I could use the mass to find the volume contained in that syringe, and match it to the correct one (which was actually within .02g, which made me happy, especially since everyone else was failing horribly at the simple worksheet).