Parents Can: Be Lying Jerks/ Make Things Interesting

This is another story about the bullshit my parents fed me when I was little that I wholeheartedly believed until I was told otherwise years later.

When I was about 4, my father started quizzing me on three questions. He said it was very important to know the answers to these questions because if you didn't you could not graduate from pre-school. The questions were these:

1) Who is the greatest band of all time?
2) Who is the greatest solo artist of all time?
3) Who won Wimbleton in 1987?

The answers were as such:

1) The Beatles
2) Bruce Springsteen
3) Jimmy Connors

Can you guess what we listened to in the car on roadtrips?

Anyways, I believed him when he said one had to possess this knowledge in order to make it out of pre-school, but since I was 4 it didn't really concern me too much. Plus, I always knew the first two. I only forgot the second repeatedly. One day nearing the end of the year, my father came early to pick me up. He sat on one of those tiny chairs while he waited for class to finish up and the teachers all sat us down in a group to talk to us.

They said, "Today, we have three questions for you. Number 1: Who is the greatest band of all time?"
I raised my hand and they let me answer, "The Beatles."
"Good. Now, who is the greatest solo artist of all time?"
I raised my hand again and got to answer, "Bruce Springsteen."
They asked about Wimbleton too, of course, and I failed my father by completely blanking. Johnny something? Some boy in the class knew it was Jimmy Connors. I knew I was fine nailing 2 out of 3 and thought it was funny how they really did ask those questions in pre-school.

Not that I thought about it often enough to have come to any kind of realization, but it was at least 5 or 6 years before my father told me that he had come in early and requested that the teachers ask us all that and it was only at that point that I knew the truth.

Don't think for a second I won't mess with my own kids like that because I fully intend to if I ever have any.