Sarah Palin And The Psychiatrist

Sometimes we just need a good laugh:

A noted psychiatrist was a guest speaker at an academic function where Sarah Palin happened to appear. Ms Palin took the opportunity to schmooze the good doctor a bit and asked him a question with which he was most at ease.

'Would you mind telling me, Doctor,' she asked, 'how you detect a mental deficiency
in somebody who appears completely normal?'

'Nothing is easier,' he replied.
'You ask a simple question which anyone should answer with no trouble.
If the person hesitates, that puts you on the track..'

'What sort of question?' asked Palin.

Well, you might ask, 'Captain Cook made three trips around the world
and died during one of them. Which one?''

Palin thought a moment, and then said with a nervous laugh,
'You wouldn't happen to have another example would you?
I must confess I don't know much about history.'