Q 01/05

Anne Sullivan, herself partly blind, is remembered as the lifelong teacher of which deaf-blind author, first reached at a water pump?

A) Helen Keller

B) Laura Bridgman

C) Fanny Crosby

D) Louis Braille

Answer · why

A) Helen Keller

Helen Keller, who was six when Sullivan spelled W-A-T-E-R into one hand while pumping water over the other, the breakthrough dramatised in The Miracle...

Q 02/05

NASA's Teacher in Space taught which subject at Concord High School in New Hampshire?

A) Chemistry

B) English

C) Mathematics

D) Social studies

Answer · why

D) Social studies

Social studies: Christa McAuliffe taught American history, law and economics at Concord High and planned two lessons from orbit before Challenger brok...

Q 03/05

Jaime Escalante, the Bolivian-born teacher behind Stand and Deliver, taught which subject at Garfield High, where his students were accused of cheating?

A) Calculus

B) Physics

C) Spanish

D) History

Answer · why

A) Calculus

Calculus: in 1982 the Educational Testing Service made 14 of his students retake the AP Calculus exam on suspicion of cheating, and the 12 who sat it ...

Q 04/05

Which actor was Oscar-nominated for playing Escalante in Stand and Deliver (1988)?

A) Andy García

B) Edward James Olmos

C) Jimmy Smits

D) Cheech Marin

Answer · why

B) Edward James Olmos

Edward James Olmos earned a Best Actor nomination at the 1989 Academy Awards for playing Escalante; the film was added to the National Film Registry i...

Q 05/05

Erin Gruwell's students at Wilson High in Long Beach turned their journals into which 1999 book, later filmed with Hilary Swank?

A) The Freedom Writers Diary

B) Dangerous Minds

C) Up the Down Staircase

D) Teaching in Room 203

Answer · why

A) The Freedom Writers Diary

The Freedom Writers Diary, named in a nod to the Freedom Riders, and Gruwell was a first-year teacher in 1994 handed the lowest-performing class. Read...