Q 01/05

Anne Sullivan is best remembered as the lifelong teacher of which deaf and blind author?

A) Laura Bridgman

B) Fanny Crosby

C) Helen Keller

D) Louis Braille

Answer · why

C) Helen Keller

Sullivan was herself partially blind after childhood trachoma and had begged her way into the Perkins School for the Blind.

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

Christa McAuliffe planned to teach two lessons from orbit before Challenger broke apart in January 1986.

Q 03/05

Jaime Escalante, the inspiration for Stand and Deliver, taught which subject at Garfield High?

A) Calculus

B) Physics

C) Spanish

D) History

Answer · why

A) Calculus

Born in La Paz to two teachers, he had taught in Bolivia for 12 years before immigrating and learning English.

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

The film was added to the National Film Registry in 2011.

Q 05/05

Erin Gruwell's students at Wilson High in Long Beach compiled diaries that became which 1999 book?

A) The Freedom Writers Diary

B) Dangerous Minds (the book)

C) Up the Down Staircase

D) Teaching in Room 203

Answer · why

A) The Freedom Writers Diary

Hilary Swank played her in the 2007 film; Gruwell had started as a student teacher assigned the lowest-performing class in 1994.