"Lean On Me" - Part I Trivia Quiz

Answer: Eastside High School

Eastside High School students continue to do poorly on standardized tests, despite valiant teacher efforts and millions of dollars being devoted to turning things around. Clark's rather extreme ways earn him the nickname "Crazy Joe."

Answer: School 6

Today, Paterson has 34 elementary schools and middle schools, and most are NOT like the wonderful School 6 seen in the film. However, School 6 is considered less likely to raise strife for the Paterson Board of Education, thus making it easier to stifle Clark.

Answer: "Welcome to the Jungle" by Guns 'N Roses

The film offers an incredibly diverse music score, including the title song. However, the original version of "Lean on Me" by Bill Withers is not used. Instead, the Club Noveau version from the 1980s is used on the soundtrack. The version used in the film is an original.

Answer: John Avildsen

Hughes is best known for his films about teenage angst like "The Breakfast Club". Poitier starred in the 1960s memorable bad school movie, "To Sir With Love". Singleton's school-related work is "Higher Learning", while Avildsen directed "The Karate Kid" and "Rocky," the latter for which he won an Oscar.

Answer: football

Clark tells the beleaguered coach that he's being replaced because he's tired of seeing the team lose all the time. Incidentally, all Eastside teams are nicknamed the Ghosts. It is believed that part of the Eastside landscape was built atop a cemetery.

Answer: He was her principal in fifth-grade.

The actress playing Kaneisha would later star for a couple of years on NBC's "A Different World". Like most supporting roles in the film, Kaneisha is not a character in whole, but a composite of several wrapped into one. In the film, however, the very bright Kaneisha brings Clark both joy and worry.

Answer: incorrigible!------expurgated!

Among the misdeeds committed by those who are leaving Eastside is drug dealing, assault and weapons dealing. Clark announces their expulsion after they are unable to sing the school song. The school song issue will become pivotal later on in the film.

Answer: Ms. Barrett

Tony Award winning actress Lynne Thigpen (1997's "American Daughter") is outstanding as the angry, conniving apologist for rotten student behavior. Her son is among those banished from the school, and she plays the pity pot about his discouragement leading to bad acts in school. She may be best known for her role as the chief on the PBS series "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego?"

Answer: Stop acting like the whole world is against you.

At this point, the insulted woman browbeats the mayor into appointing her to the school board in order to get rid of Clark.

Answer: Jump off the roof.

Samms is the only banished student who begs for and is allowed back into school. As the movie progresses, Samms becomes one of the principals staunchest supporters, and he has a pivotal role in the important school song scene.