Continuity mistake: Just before the Princess goes to smash her ice cream cone into the cheerleader's chest, she takes a bite off the top of the ice cream, but when she pushes it towards the camera you can see that it hasn't been eaten at all.

The Princess Diaries (2001)
Plot summary
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Starring: Anne Hathaway, Heather Matarazzo, Hector Elizondo, Julie Andrews, Mandy Moore
Mia Thermopolis is a 15-year-old girl struggling to get through high school. She's shy around the guy she likes and stands up for what she believes in. But, that all changes when she finds out she's the heir to the throne of a tiny European country.
Trivia: In the scene where Mia slips and falls on the bleachers, Anne Hathaway actually did fall. The director thought it was so funny that he decided to leave it in there. Notice how Mia and Lilly fall out of character and start laughing, but in the next shot they're immediately serious again as if nothing happened.
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Answer: She wants the class to concentrate on "Voltaire", not "hair". Voltaire was a French writer & philosopher, author of 'Candide'.
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