Isn’t admitting “I don’t know” a sign of intelligence?
I bet it was ‘written’ by ‘A.I.’ . . . .
I recall trick questions like that in school, but it was in high school and college, not at primary school. That just confuses the poor kids. To make you not afraid to say ‘no, this question is nonsense’
Sadistic is a good word… (Imagine a clown in the background laughing in the way that certain clowns do).
A quote from (former) Canadian school teacher Jim McMurtry’s autobiographical book, The Scarlet Lesson:
*> …My quick fall into disgrace… began when a Grade 10 French Immersion student… accused me of “putting down her intelligence” by giving her a mark of 29/30 when her friend and rival… got 30/30. The next day her mother came to the school to settle the score. She wouldn’t stop yelling at me in the staffroom, hallway, photocopy room, office… for she literally had me on the run, as I was desperate to find a room where her yelling would be out of earshot of others… *
> …My micro-managing principal caught whiff of a scandal and raised his nose in the air like a hound about to chase a fox and tear it to bits. He phoned me long before I reached home in my car, commanding me to contact the parent by email, to emphatically apologize, and to arrange another appointment with her, this time in his office with him present…
> …The dreaded meeting with Old Yeller came two days later, and the principal was sharply critical of me, as was the parent as she expressed between paroxysms of anger and gasps for breath that I had “crushed” her daughter – whose overall mark was only 97%! That I had hurt her daughter was unlikely as her daughter, though tiny, was a ferocious rugby player…
This is not a lively one-off, given what is described in a recent article about British Columbia public schools wanting to abolish letter grades: Give This Idea an F: The Problematic Push to Eliminate Letter Grades | C2C Journal
Perfect integration into the transnational DIE (Diversity, Inclusion, Equity) Psyop, groundwork for the illegal immigration phenomenon throughout the world, manifesting a modern Tower of Babel Moment…
… reminds me of a cartoon from the strip Shoe. Skylar, a not especially bright kid, is coming home with a bad report card. Through several panels he is thinking about an excuse for his bad grades that Cosmo will buy. He finally decides that he will bombard Cosmo by using all of the excuses that he has come up with on his walk home. He finally arrives at home, hands his report card to Cosmo and starts in listing off the excuses. Cosmo just nods and says “uh huh” to each of the excuses. Skyler begins to think that Cosmo is buying his excuses. Cosmo then says “You know there is one excuse that you haven’t mentioned.” Skyler is ecstatic at this point thinking that Cosmo is now helping his case by providing excuses. In the last panel Cosmo looks at Skyler and says “You know, have you considered the fact that it could just be that you are as dumb as a fence post.”
Haha!
TBH there is some profound metaphysical or spiritual reason all this is happening.
It seems that Western Civilisation got so corrupted and people got so ‘used to’ being treated like slaves that instead of looking for justice, after seeing the courts laugh at them and reward criminals, instead of looking for love after seeing God mocked and killed, and seeing gender addled, that the brainwashed masses just became not just suicidally empathetic, but nihilistic and twisted.
“There is some profound metaphysical or spiritual reason all this is happening.”
… but what if there is not?
Maybe many folk really are dumb and stupid…born that way? 
… some are … but most have just been intentionally left in an ignorant state.
So you are just saying this is all a sign of a natural progression of civilisation towards idiocy and suicide?
… I certainly think it is on the table as an explanation. The thing that troubles me the most is the almost incomprehensible disregard for any form of self preservation either at the individual or group level.
15 Marbles
Minus - Some Marbles
= Sum Total
That’s my point too; the overriding of physical and mental basic processes is strange, as if they were hypnotised /brainwashed /totally gave up the ghost.
Reminds me of a video I saw of a cat ‘that had no survival skills’
It lay belly up on the sidewalk waiting for strangers to pet it
15 marbles - some marbles = a number of marbles between 0 and 13. 
… and that is exactly the result of conditioning.
I suppose an educational system that leaves out explaining the fundamentals of reasoning would produce individuals lacking that ability. Knowing the answer on a test without knowing the why and how it is the answer adds little to an educated mind.
Reminds me of real estate school when obtaining a real estate license where we learned how to take the test, but nothing about sales or listing a home.