Other GCSE specimens demonstrate this desperate grasping after words heard only once before, or misheard. "Solomon had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines"; "Voltaire invented electricity" (a brilliant inference, worth half marks); "Shakespeare wrote in Islamic pentameters"; "Bach practised on an old spinster which he kept up in the attic"; "Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada."
D.J. Enright, Injury Time: A Memoir.