Bill, I did one of those tests when I was a 6th grader. Must have been a psychology grad student using our class as guinea pigs. I remember that item #23 or so said, "If you have followed all the instructions up to this point, say 'I have.'" And all around me the voices piped up, "I have!" "I have!" For those of you unfamiliar with this, every student was given a piece of paper. At the top of the page it said, in large letters, "FOLLOW ALL INSTRUCTIONS EXACTLY AS WRITTEN". Item #1 said, "Be sure to read the entire test all the way through before completing any of the items", and item #30 said, "Now that you have read through the entire test, go back to the beginning and do item #2 only, and then you are finished."

The interesting thing about that problem is that it was in a kids' magazine published by Highlights called MathMania, so all the other problems in the magazine had solutions that used math--that context made it a little more tricky!

Aloha,
Mark