Can you name the actors who played these fictional educators (principals, teachers, etc) from the clues below?

Source	Actor/Actress	Educator
Dead Poets Society		John Keating
Kindergarten Cop		John Kimble
School of Rock		Dewey Finn
Dangerous Minds		Louanne Johnson
Mona Lisa Smile		Katherine Ann Watson
Matilda		Miss Honey
Boy Meets World		Mr. Feeny
Harry Potter		Albus Dumbledore
Mr. Holland's Opus		Glenn Holland
Stand and Deliver		Jaime Escalante
Saved By the Bell		Mr. Belding
The Simpsons		Seymour Skinner
The Magic School Bus		Ms. Frizzle
Teachers		Alex Jurel

Source	Actor/Actress	Educator
To Sir, with Love		Mark Thackeray
Mean Girls		Mrs. Norbury
Ferris Bueller's Day Off		Economics Teacher
The Breakfast Club		Richard Vernon
Hangin' With Mr. Cooper		Mark Cooper
Billy Madison		Veronica Vaughn
Futurama		Hubert J. Farnsworth
Inherit the Wind		Bertram T. Cates
Rushmore		Dr. Nelson Guggenheim
Animal House		Dean Vernon Werner
Old School		Dean Pritchard
Head of the Class		Charlie Moore
High School Musical		Ms. Darbus
Welcome Back Kotter		Gabe Kotter

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	julvett:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:14 GMT	12 points
	some of these were pretty obscure... i would've liked it better if we just had to guess the educator's name...

	quiztaker:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:15 GMT	28 points
	Good quiz, however, i'd prefer it the other way around (actor as a clue and you have to name the teacher/professor) along with a ban on High School Musical questions.

	pat19:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:16 GMT	23 points
	I know Richard Harris is taken, but his name should show up alongside Michael Gambon's.

	AStue:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:17 GMT	1 point
	@julvett: yeah, when i clicked this quiz i was expecting to be guessing the characters name, not the actor. Would have been much more do-able

	fm_:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:18 GMT	32 points
	Feeny! Fee-hee-hee-heeny!

	quiztaker:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:19 GMT	13 points
	@Pat: Was just about to comment on that, Harris played Dumbledore in Sorcerers/Philosophers Stone and Chamber of Secrets, it's wrong to leave him off.

	arcadia:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:22 GMT	6 points
	The Breakfast Club one is wrong. Richard Vernon was the character's name and he was played by Paul Gleason. Bender clearly says that they can't have a party with "Vernon" checking them out every few seconds.

	L102:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:34 GMT	6 points
	I've seen so many of these movies, but I didn't know the names of the actors/actresses, except for a few.

	brianc:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:36 GMT	-1 points
	1) Should have had Ben Stein for Ferris Bueller's Day Off, instead of the principal 2) Should accept "arnold" or "ahnold" for the 2nd item

	JohnJF:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:36 GMT	4 points
	I hate to be nitpicky, but Jeffery Jones over Ben Stein for the Ferris Bueller's Day Off educator?

	santinit:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:40 GMT	5 points
	Yeah really, why are we guessing the actor or the VOICE ACTOR from their fictional name instead of the other way around?

	debbiedoesnothin:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:41 GMT	3 points
	The teacher from Rushmore should've been Miss Cross. She was more central to the plot than Guggenheim.

	Eliot:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:49 GMT	4 points
	I PREFER guessing names of actors rather than names of characters; but the quiz should have been titled more accurately. Oh also, I don't think "Dean York" was in Inherit the Wind. Try "Dick York" (often confused with "Dick Sargent", but that's a story for another day).

	IHateRegistering:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:49 GMT	2 points
	I agree with the above comments I think it would be funner the other way around. Or at least change the title to "People who play educators". The current title makes it sound like you will be guessing who the educators are.

	Mearn:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:52 GMT	1 point
	Mr. Rooney was the principal in Ferris Bueller, not the teacher.

	SporcleAdmin:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:56 GMT	3 points
	Thanks for the comments all, made a couple corrections to this one and renamed it Educating Actors (hopefully that is less misleading). Oh and swapped out Rooney for Economics Teacher in Ferris Bueller.

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	darkshark76:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 08:59 GMT	0 points
	cool quiz. I just finished watching Kindergarten Cop, awesome movie BTW, glad Kimble was on the quiz.

	llewdor:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 09:07 GMT	-4 points
	Since "Inherit the Wind" was a true story, the educators in it aren't fictional.

	rockgolf:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 09:25 GMT	5 points
	America's best known teacher: Jack Black?!?!

	marpocky:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 09:27 GMT	4 points
	@llewdor: It wasn't a documentary though, so it was a fictionalized version of real people

	BamaRainbow:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 09:43 GMT	7 points
	@ llewdor: The characters in both the original play and the film derived from it ARE fictional. In the film, the two lawyers (played by Tracy and March) were named Henry Drummond and Matthew Harrison Brady. In real-life, the lawyers' names were Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. In addition, the teacher in the real-life case was John Scopes (not Bertram Cates). While the story is BASED on a real-life incident and the characters are BASED on real-life people, the story was slightly fictionalized just enough to qualify the film as fictional; one major fictional plot point involved Cates' engagement to a minister's daughter; in real-life, Scopes didn't have a girlfriend, much less a fiancee, at the time of his trial.

	dksolid:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 10:02 GMT	1 point
	Lots of obscure ones. One well-known actress that is sorely missing is Drew Barrymore for her awesome performance in Donnie Darko.

	Nolij:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 10:12 GMT	0 points
	The lack of Kevin Kline for Emperor's Club is inexcusable. I also would have liked Morgan Freeman for Lean on Me over some of these.

	ZeroSignal:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 10:43 GMT	5 points
	Jon Lovitz for High School High! ...yeah, I'm alone on that. Fun quiz tho

	aVz:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 11:00 GMT	3 points
	i cant believe i cant spell arnold's last name....>_

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	fatbeard:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 12:21 GMT	1 point
	I could see at least one sequel to this. A lot of names mentioned above, not to mention Matthew Broderick in Election, Mr. Garrison in South Park (or, conceivaby, Chef), John Stewart in The Faculty... yeah, a lot of good possibilities

	Koka:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 14:39 GMT	3 points
	So, why was Richard Harris left off of Harry Potter?

	JerseyOrange:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 15:38 GMT	10 points
	Re: The Simpsons - Seymour Skinner is actually played by Armin Tanzerian, isn't he?

	MrsMcCartney1965:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 17:01 GMT	2 points
	Great quiz but you left out ROBERT DONAT. He beat out Clark Gable for the Best Actor award in Goodbye Mr. Chips. Mr. Rhett Butler was quite surprised !

	MoseSchrute12:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 17:08 GMT	2 points
	Isn't it Dean Wormer (not Werner) in Animal House?

	billhune:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 17:26 GMT	4 points
	I'm suprised this many comments were made without anyone mentioned the absence of Mr. Hand from this quiz

	pbysr:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 17:31 GMT	1 point
	Move over Carl Yastrzemski. Arnold Schwarzenegger is the new toughest kid to spell on the block.

	chikka2:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 18:00 GMT	1 point
	Great concept, challenging quiz. I like trying to identify the actors. This is the first quiz that no one has gone below the threshold on(yet)

	cntower:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 20:11 GMT	2 points
	"I'm a cop you idiot!"

	lavagirl:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 20:28 GMT	6 points
	Richard Harris should given credit for Dumbledore just as Michael Gambon. If Harris had not passed away, he surely would have continued his role in subsequent Harry Potter movies. Please give him credit.

	Reder:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 20:53 GMT	1 point
	I was hoping for a bonus answer of Jason Schwartzman on "Yo Teach" from Funny People.

	debbiefan:	Aug 19th, 2009 at 22:10 GMT	1 point
	"Little girls! I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the creme de la creme. Give me a girl at an impressionable age and she is mine for life."

	WindSword:	Aug 20th, 2009 at 00:17 GMT	3 points
	It's not a tumor!