This should be the dumbest college exam question ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A few days ago, Reddit user Esperagon posted a question from his exam that would have stumped Plato himself.

The film student from Sheridan College in Toronto was faced with an impossible question in his sound recording test, one which no amount of cramming could have foreseen. The student was asked the question “What is a microphone?” with the only possible answers of “True” or “False.”
Many different theories behind the obscure question were brought up in the comments section, ranging from a computer typo to a philosophical musing about the nature of logic and linguistics. All of which were, of course, fiercely debated:

1. Beetin

   55 points3 days ago

   "What is a microphone" is a perfectly valid A = B logical statement, and no supplementary statements have been presented to prove its falseness.
   Therefore it is true, although I cannot know who or what this What figure is, other than a microphone.

from discussion I am a film student. This was a question on my sound recording test.

1. dick-nipples

   1648 points3 days ago

   FALSE. 'What' is an interrogative pronoun.

from discussion I am a film student. This was a question on my sound recording test

However, The Star got in contact with the Canadian film school to ask what was going on. David Gray, the professor who set the exam, said the question was a running joke which he hoped would get his students to start thinking outside the box.

“I wanted to get them to think more openly, so I started putting these funny questions on their quizzes and exams for bonus marks," Gray said to the Star.

“There is no wrong answer, it’s just more about pushing yourself and thinking outside of the box.”