Teachers 'R' Us: Fiction's Finest Educators

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1. He was a war hero, but which teacher of the principal kind had difficulty finding time for his true love between a domineering mother and trying to keep an unruly yellow kid in check? Dick Solomon Maximillian Arturo Seymour Skinner Indiana Jones

2. Which teacher had the prime task of helping make genteel young Scottish lassies fit for adult life? Jean Brodie Jenny Calendar Edna Krabappel Emma Frost

3. Home and away he had a loose feeling for discipline and liked to keep things informal. Which teacher, however, was a bit of an impostor, in fact he had been relocated to sunny climes in a witness protection programme? Noel Zachery John Keating Robert Langdon Harry Reynolds

4. Schools could be tough places, but which college dean was not so much in charge of an educational establishment, but an animal house? Hideo Shimazu Denzel Q. Crocker Vernon Wormer Timothy F.X. Finnegan

5. Few teachers entered the profession just for the fame of it, but which kindly music teacher took pleasure in seeing his students progress? (It was a character that could live forever.) Nigel Ratburn Quistis Trepe Archie Simpson Benjamin Shorofsky

6. Some teachers treated their pupils like children, but which one tried treating them like adults - even if it didn't work until he took one of the troublemakers into the boxing ring and thrashed him? Tony Mitchell Nick Smart Graham Sutcliffe Mark Thackery

7. One would expect that someone who taught ethics would be a moral character, but which one orchestrated a little bit of fraud in the Election for places on the student government? Jimmy Corkhill Maurice Bronson Jim McAllister Peter King

8. American high schools had a reputation for toughness: kids with guns; armed guards in the corridors. Which teacher battled the tough kids with poetry and Bob Dylan lyrics? Gillie Washington Louanne Johnson Ginny Booth Terri Mooney

9. Away from the blackboard, teachers liked to relax and have their own family lives. Which teacher had a checkered working career that included spells as a newspaper editor and supermarket attendant, and still found time for four wives, two of whom died and one of whom divorced him? (And don't forget the 27 girlfriends...) Tom Brisley Ken Barlow Dai Jones John Kimble

10. You can say goodbye to this quiz by finding the name of a much-loved teacher who made life at boarding school easier for his boys. Which teacher's career embraced times of change from the era of a British Empire Queen through the Great War to the early days of WW2? Peter Robson Herbert Garrison Ian Chesterton Arthur Chipping