School Days of Set Squares, Compasses and Rulers Quiz

Answer: Azkaban

"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" is the fourth instalment of the "Harry Potter" movies. Harry was 14 years old in this story, and sat in his fourth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This school was chosen to host the Tri-Wizard Tournament, a competition for students at three different wizardry schools. Each competitor would face three difficult challenges and have to use their magic skills to solve the difficulties.
Because on previous occasions students have been killed during the tournament, headmaster Albus Dumbledore decreed that only students of 16 year and older were allowed to compete. The Goblet of Fire mentioned in the movie title was not only the trophy to be sought, but also a device to select the competitors (named champions).
The Hogwarts champion was Cedric Diggory (played by Robert Pattinson). The visiting schools were Durmstrang - a delegation of warlocks led by Igor Karkaroff and of whom Viktor Krum (Stanislas Yanevski) was chosen as champion - and Beauxbatons - a delegation of witches whose champion was Fleur Delacour (role by Clemence Poesy). Head of the Beauxbatons delegation was Madame Olympe Maxime.
But the Goblet of Fire chose also Harry Potter (played by Daniel Radcliffe) as a champion for these possibly lethal tasks...
Azkaban was no school but a high-security prison in the "Harry Potter" movies.

Answer: Matilda

The movie was of course "Matilda", based upon the eponymous novel by Roald Dahl.
When one of the boys in Matilda's class stole a piece of chocolate cake, Miss Trunchbull had him devour a very large cake.
In this movie Matilda was one of the children attending school, and after several unjust punishments by Miss Trunchbull, Matilda used her telekinetic powers to revolt.
Mara Wilson, aged nine, played the title role.
The red herrings don't have a direct link to school days. "Marie Antoinette" (2006) was a costume drama about the Austrian girl who married the French king Louis XVI. In "Julie" (1956) Doris Day played a wife trying to flee from her violent husband. And "Agatha" (1979) was a fictional account of the few days the Queen of Crime (Agatha Christie) disappeared without a trace.

Answer: Kindergarten Cop

"Kindergarten Cop" (1990) is about a cop named John Kimble (Arnold Schwarzenegger) who was sent undercover to a kindergarten - because the wife of a most wanted criminal was the mother of one of the kids in there. In 2016 "Kindergarten Cop 2" was made, with Dolph Lundgren in the role of the cop going undercover at a preschool.
The original movie "Kindergarten Cop" shows Schwarzenegger is not only capable of playing the tough guy as in "Conan the Barbarian" (1982) or "Commando" (1985), but also of playing the lead in a comedy.
"Junior" (1994) was a comedy with a pregnant Schwarzenegger. In "Total Recall", Schwarzenegger played a construction worker who got a memory implant in which he acted as a secret agent. "The Terminator" (1984) included Schwarzenegger as an almost indestructible android sent out to kill Sarah Connors, but in later installments the terminator instead decided to protect her from more advanced androids.

Answer: Cameron Diaz

"Bad Teacher" told the story of a young teacher desiring plastic surgery. When her rich fiancé broke the engagement, she felt it necessary to resume her classes. But she was not quite a good example for her students: she was drunk frequently, she took illegal drugs, and almost all the time she thought of having sex. Cameron Diaz starred in this movie.
Cameron Diaz (born 1972) started her movie career in "The Mask" (1994). Her best known movies were "There's Something About Mary" (1998) and "Charlie's Angels" (2000).
In 2014 "Bad Teacher" was remade into a television series, for which Cameron Diaz was the producer and Ari Graynor played the title role.
Imelda Staunton, Helen Mirren and Judi Dench are British actresses who impersonated a bad teacher in other movies. Staunton starred as the tyrannical Dolores Umbridge in "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix" (2007) and "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1" (2010). Helen Mirren played the conniving title character in "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" (1999). In "Notes on a Scandal" (2006). Judi Dench played the teacher Barbara Covett, who enacted revenge on one of her colleagues.

Answer: Brian De Palma

The movie starring Sissy Spacek is, of course, "Carrie". When the title character was bullied by her friends, she used her telekinetic powers to enact revenge. Brian de Palma directed this movie. Main roles were for Sissy Spacek as Carrie, Piper Laurie as Carrie's mother, and John Travolta as Billy - the student who deliberately dropped a bucket of pig blood on Carrie - unleashing the dreaded finale.
Brian de Palma (born 1940) is one of the great directors of his generation. He started his career with some short stories, and directed his first full-length feature film in 1968 ("Murder à la Mod"). "Carrie" was his first great success, followed by movies such as "Dressed to Kill" (1980), "Scarface" (1983), "The Untouchables" (1987) and "Mission: Impossible" (1996).
The other directors also had some movies involving older teenagers. Bob Clark directed the X-rated comedy "Porky's" (1982) and John Hughes directed "Weird Science" (1985) with far less nudity. Sean Cuningham tried his hand at the first installment of the serial horror movie "Friday the 13th" (1980).

Answer: Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick (born 1962) started his career in the television series "Lou Grant" in 1981. His movie debut was in 1983 with the dramedy "Max Dugan Returns".
In "Ferris Bueller's Day Off", a movie which gave him a nomination for a Golden Globe, Matthew played a high school student playing truant for one day: he decided to "lend" his father's Ferrari and take his girlfriend out to Chicago for some cultural experiences: visiting some museums, eating at a fancy restaurant...
Other movies in which Matthew Broderick played or voiced a role, were "The Stepford Wives" (2004), "Manchester by the Sea" (2016) and "The Lion King" (1994). He played a quite controversial role in "The Producers" (2005): on the one hand he was nominated at the Hollywood Film Festival for Best Supporting Actor, while he was also nominated for the same role for "Worst Actor" at the Stinkers Bad Movie award.
The red herrings were the male leads in "The Breakfast Club" (1985): a movie about five students (the girls played by Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy) who have to share a nine hour detention in the library on Saturday, during which time they have to write an essay about who they think they are.

Answer: Grease

"Grease" (1978) was a musical comedy about Danny Zuko (played by John Travolta), leader of the motor gang the T-Birds, and Sandy Olsson (role by Olivia Newton John), one of the Pink Ladies. Although these groups were rivals at Rydell High School, Danny and Sandy fell in love. At the end, they confessed their love in the aforesaid song and drove off.
"West Side Story" (1961) also revolved about the love between two members of rival gangs: Tony (Richard Beymer) and Maria (Natalie Wood), a Shark and a Jet. The most memorable songs from "West Side Story" include "Maria", "Tonight" and "I Want to Be in America".
"Annie" (1982) starred Aileen Quinn as a young girl whose parents abandoned her at an orphanage. When she was serving the rich Oliver Warbucks (role by Albert Finney). Warbucks came up with a plan to find Annie's parents, but the tyrannical director of the orphanage had her own scheme... Two of the best known songs from "Annie" are "Tomorrow" and "Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile".
"Moulin Rouge" (2001) had nothing to do with school days. This musical told the story of Satine (Nicole Kidman), a can-can dancer and prostitute at the Moulin Rouge cabaret in Paris, and her lover Christian (played by Ewan McGregor). Notable songs were "Lady Marmalade" and "One Day I'll Fly Away".

Answer: Vangelis

Vangelis was born in 1943 as Evangelos Odysseas Papathanassiou. He started his career in some bands, of which Aphrodite's Child (with whom he performed between 1968 and 1971) was the best known. In 1963 he composed his first movie soundtrack to the Greek movie "My Brother the Traffic Policeman", but the first internationally acclaimed soundtrack was for the French TV documentary "L'Apocalypse des Animaux".
Vangelis is best known for his movie soundtracks to "Chariots of Fire" (1981), "Blade Runner" (1982) and "1492: Conquest of Paradise" (1992).
The movie "Chariots of Fire" focused upon two British athletes competing in the 1924 Paris Olympics: Harold Abrahams (played by Ben Cross), a student of Lithuania descent and Jewish belief at Cambridge University, and Eric Liddell (role by Ian Charleson), a Scottish runner with a very intense religious feeling. In fact, Liddell was specialised in the 100 m sprint, but refused to compete on this distance because the qualifications were held on Sunday - a day reserved for prayer, he said. So Liddell did not compete on his favourite distance, but won the 400 m instead (and also came in second at the 200 m sprint).

Answer: Boyhood

"Boyhood" (2014) was a stunning project from director Richard Linklater, who also wrote the script (or let it evolve with the main actors) and was one of the producers. This quite unusual movie won several awards, including the Silver Bear in Berlin and the BAFTA for Best movie and Best Director. Patricia Arquette (playing the mother) won the award for Best Supporting Actress at the Oscars, at the Golden Globes and at the BAFTA awards. The other main roles were for Ellar Coltrane as Mason and Ethan Hawke as his father.
Each year Linklater reunited the cast to spend a few days shooting additional scenes, and about one quarter hour of each year made it to the final cut. So we could really follow how Mason grew up from a young boy to a freshman in university.
The red herrings are three instalments of another Linklater project: a love story between the same couple (Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy) aged twenty-something, thirty-something and forty-something. "Before Sunrise" (1995) related how the couple met on a train from Budapest to Vienna. In "Before Sunset" (2004) the two met again in Paris. The third installment "Before Midnight" (2015) showed the same couple now married and with children in their teens.

Answer: Padawans

"A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" and "use The Force" are of course references to the many "Star Wars" movies. Two of the mainstream "Star Wars" Episodes showed us the Jedi Academy: "Star Wars II: The Clone Wars" had a scene in which the pupils suggested to Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda why a star system didn't show up in the library, and in "Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith" Anakin Skywalker was ordered to destroy the Academy.
The "Star Wars" stories told the everlasting struggle between good (the Jedi Order) and evil (the Siths), who both aptly used The Force: paranormal abilities such as telepathy and telekinesis. The Jedi Order had four grades: Initiates (roughly elementary school), Padawans (mostly teenagers), Jedi Knights (adults working on a final training, which could be compared roughly to university students) and Jedi Masters.
In the aforesaid movies only human Padawans appeared. But as some of the Jedi Masters (including Yoda) were of non-human races, it seems only logical that there were also non-human Padawans.
Esquires were young boys training to become a knight during the Middle Ages. Several movies set in medieval times feature one or more esquires as supporting roles.
Apprentices were in medieval times the young boys and girls learning a profession. In movies, most wizards have apprentices. One of the most famous wizard's apprentices was Mickey Mouse in "Fantasia" (1940).
Novices are typically girls or women training to be admitted into a religious order. In the fantasy series "The Wheel of Time" the Novices refer to the first grade of Aes Sedai, woman who learn to control the One Power (comparable to magic).