I saw a movie where there was an academic decathlon…?
Question: I saw a movie where there was an academic decathlon…?
…and the students were all in a private school. one was caught cheating and the teacher figured it out and asked a question about a general who would never be in any history book. years later in the movie the same students (now grown up) were at a reunion and had the same sort of academic decathlon and the same student who was cheating was cheating again and lost getting asked the same question when the teacher figured out he was cheating again.
Answer:
Answer by mike.dennis_belgium
hi there,
“The Emperor’s Club”(2002, with Kevin Kline and Emile Hirsch)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283530/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_Club
Mike Dennis.
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