Q 01/05

India celebrates Teachers' Day on 5 September, the birthday of which philosopher who became its second president?

A) Jawaharlal Nehru

B) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

C) Chakravarti Rajagopalachari

D) Rajendra Prasad

Answer · why

B) Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan asked that his birthday be kept as Teachers' Day when friends and former students wanted to celebrate it in 1962. He had held...

Q 02/05

Which United Nations agency mounts the World Teachers' Day campaign each 5 October with Education International?

A) UNHCR

B) UNCTAD

C) UNIDO

D) UNESCO

Answer · why

D) UNESCO

UNESCO signed the 1966 recommendation on the status of teachers that the day commemorates. The observance itself was only established in 1994.

Q 03/05

On Teachers' Day in some Indian schools, who traditionally takes over the teaching of classes to show appreciation?

A) Senior pupils

B) Their parents

C) Retired staff

D) Local officials

Answer · why

A) Senior pupils

Senior pupils take charge of lessons for the day, while the usual timetable gives way to celebration, thanks and remembrance.

Q 04/05

Which teacher, herself educated at the Perkins School for the Blind, taught the deaf-blind Helen Keller to communicate?

A) Clara Barton

B) Julia Ward Howe

C) Anne Sullivan

D) Dorothea Dix

Answer · why

C) Anne Sullivan

Anne Sullivan was only 20 when she arrived at the Kellers' Alabama home in March 1887. She stayed on as Keller's companion for the rest of her life.

Q 05/05

Aristotle was hired by Philip II of Macedon in 343 BC to tutor which of these future rulers, then a teenager?

A) Antiochus the Great

B) Alexander the Great

C) Pyrrhus of Epirus

D) Cyrus the Great

Answer · why

B) Alexander the Great

Alexander the Great studied under Aristotle until the age of 16. His schooling ended when his father went to war and left him in charge of Macedon as ...