Oh Captain, My Captain! Can You Beat This Dead Poets Society Quiz?
Since Dead Poets Society was released in 1989, it has garnered a fanbase of teens and young adults from all walks of life. Not only that, but it has become an all-time classic coming of age movies. The story of a wayward class of boys who learn about the joys of poetry and theatre from their eccentric teacher, Mr Keating, the movie is both heart-breaking and affirming, timeless and charmingly retro, with a slew of incredibly quotable lines.
The question is: how much do you remember about this autumnal cinematic bildungsroman?
Since Dead Poets Society was released in 1989, it has garnered a fanbase of teens and young adults from all walks of life. Not only that, but it has become an all-time classic coming of age movies. The story of a wayward class of boys who learn about the joys of poetry and theatre from their eccentric teacher, Mr Keating, the movie is both heart-breaking and affirming, timeless and charmingly retro, with a slew of incredibly quotable lines.
The question is: how much do you remember about this autumnal cinematic bildungsroman?
Founded in 2016, Eighties Kids started small. Beginning as a blog posting on 80s and 90s life as well as the movies, music and television of the era, Eighties Kids has in a short space of time exploded in scope and ambition. Operating out of Eighties Kids HQ in sunny Ilkley, in the North of England, today a growing team of writers produces original content day in and day out for one of the best new nostalgia sites on the web.
With the site also growing beyond its original remit, the Eighties Kids team now covers not just trivia from the 80s and 90s, but pop culture of all decades that's of interest to children of the 80s, 90s and beyond. From shocking and obscure fact posts on your favourite movies and bands, to quizzes on classic TV shows and film franchises, to picture galleries on celebrities from past and present, Eighties Kids is here to take you down memory lane, test your knowledge of classic pop culture and maybe even occasionally blow your mind.
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