Mad Geniuses - Beautiful Minds

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1. This leader battled early in life - an underachiever at school, he struggled with a speech impediment and suffered from depression. Yet he overcame these odds to become a world leader and Nobel Laureate. Who was he? Winston Churchill Leo Tolstoy Vladimir Putin John Major

2. This politician's first major depressive episode was triggered by the death of his sweetheart, Anne Rutledge in 1835, after which his friends even put him on suicide watch. He survived repeated bouts of depression to become a pivotal leader to a young nation. Theodore Roosevelt Daniel Boone William Pitt Abraham Lincoln

3. This famous billionaire aviator was afflicted by Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). He is variously attributed with having burnt all of his clothes, keeping his urine in glass jars, and wearing Kleenex boxes as shoes. Wilbur Wright Chuck Yeager Samuel Goldwyn Howard Hughes

4. This Academy Award winning actress experienced a turbulent childhood, with an alcoholic father and a unipolar mother, she herself was afflicted variously by bipolar disorder, alcoholism and anorexia. She survived these hurdles to become president of the Screen Actors Guild, and play the first female President of the United States in the sitcom 'Hail to the Chief'. Patty Duke Patty Selma Mary Tyler Moore Angelina Jolie

5. This depressive Austrian philosopher had three brothers who all committed suicide. He also survived a trip to the Russian front in World War I to contribute ground-breaking ideas to the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics, language and the mind. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ludwig Wittgenstein Samuel Goldstein Kurt Waldheim

6. This 'crazy diamond' was a founder of a world leading psychedelic rock band, once known as the 'Screaming Abdabs'. Close encounters with LSD left this musical maestro a recluse for the last 30 years of his life. Brian Connolly Syd Barrett Brian Wilson Sid Vicious

7. This Pulitzer prize-winning playwright’s beautiful sister Rose suffered from schizophrenia, to the extent that she was given a pre-frontal lobotomy – a barbaric and ineffective treatment. It is believed this event contributed to this southern man’s alcoholism and depression, but this playwright's most famous creation, Blanche DuBois, is reputedly based on his ill-fated sister. Tennessee Williams Robin Williams Ernest Hemingway Oscar Wilde

8. The brilliant member of the English 'Bloomsbury Group' suffered repeated bouts of depression and is believed to have been bipolar. This disorder didn't prevent her formidable intellect shining with 'The Lighthouse' and 'A Room of One's Own'. Virginia Woolf Margaret Hilda Thatcher Frida Kahlo Dorothy Parker

9. This gifted mathematician's struggle with schizophrenia was dramatically illustrated in the 2001 Ron Howard drama starring Russell Crowe. Who was the inspiration behind 'A Beautiful Mind'? Albert Einstein Steve Nash Pierre de Fermat John Nash

10. This famous southern belle was actually born in England. In the words of David Niven, she was 'quite quite mad', whilst her husband Laurence Olivier said she was possessed by 'that uncannily evil monster, manic depression'. Name this Oscar-winning bipolar beauty, who starred in one of the biggest movies of all time? Bette Davis Vivien Leigh Agnes Moorehead Joan Crawford