Unlike Mother’s Day which is celebrated on separate days in different parts of the world, Father’s Day is a truly universally timed celebration. So let’s hear it for the awesome fathers out there with a specially themed quiz. Below are 12 wildly different examples of inspiring fatherhood. Do you have a favourite? How many did you get?
1. (1940s)
2. (1960s)
3. (1960s)
4. (1970s)
5. (1970s)
6. (1990s)
7. (1990s)
8. (1990s)
9. (2000s)
10. (2000s)
11. (2000s)
(2010+)
Answers below
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It’s when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
As spoken by the wonderfully wise, moral and kind Atticus Finch in the Pulitzer-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) by Harper Lee. I saw an adaptation of this at the Barbican theatre yesterday, with Robert Sean Leonard in the main role. Excitingly, a sequel to the book, Go set a Watchman, will be published later this month
Alex Raphael 