Why do you have these obscure security questions

why are these security questions asked before one can get into their own ipad2:
1. FAVORITE Make of a car
2. Where were you on 2000?
3. Favorite childhood name?
These are three questions that are very hard to remember, especially when they don't work half of the time when you actually try to answer them.
Can't you make the security questions your "own" questions, instead of going to a apple support document to where they are posted as part of the whole security process? The answers to these security questions arent the answers I tried or would remember anyway.
Then you get locked out of the whole password process for a day before you can get in to ask you the same questions all over again? Dumb.Really dumb!!!!

i have tried, what i thought was answering my security questions (according to itunes security questions) and filled the answers as best as i could, but now i can't even get past my birthdate either. I know what my birthdate is, but apparently it doesnt recognize me there either. i dont know what i can do to help me get past my birthdate and on to normal security questions. i have tried to answer these questions and after two or three times, have now been locked out again, for another 8 hours! !!!!
This is  very unacceptable to me. Is there anyone out there that has had this same problem and has figured out what to do to get around this 8 hour denial time limit and on to logging onto my own ipad2.

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              Apple ID- Contacting Apple for help with Apple ID account security. Ask to speak to
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