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When I Grow Up... Trivia Quiz

I will be too old to be a child prodigy anymore. How many of these people, who were exceptionally gifted children, do you know?

A multiple-choice quiz by Rowena8482. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Rowena8482

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
331,682

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
463

Question 1 of 10

1. Johann III was a member of a family who were famous for their many scientists and mathematicians. He is particularly notable however, as he was awarded a doctorate aged just thirteen. At nineteen he was given the post of Astronomer Royal in Berlin.
What was his family name? Hint

Geiger

Euler

Bernoulli

Fermat

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which of these actors was the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, when he was put forward for his role in the film "Skippy"? Hint

Jackie Cooper

Macauley Culkin

Mickey Rooney

Robert Coogan

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Question 3 of 10

3. Born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant, he passed the entrance exams and went to study at the University of Karlsruhe aged just fifteen. He was always interested in cycling, and went on to become world famous in the field of transport. By what surname is he better known? Hint

Royce

Wankel

Mercedes

Benz

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which writer and poet, who is the "third most quoted" in the "Oxford Dictionary of English Quotations" and author of "The Rape of the Lock", was known for his learning as a child, and first became well known for his writings aged just twenty one? Hint

Geoffrey Chaucer

William Shakespeare

Alexander Pope

Ben Jonson

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Question 5 of 10

5. Thomas Young is perhaps best known as a scientist, and in particular a physicist. He entered university to study medicine whilst still a teenager, and could speak at least ten languages by the time he was fourteen. Which of these things is he also remembered for? Hint

He helped design the Golden Gate Bridge

He drew up the original plans for the Panama Canal

He located the site of the ancient City of Troy

He helped translate the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics

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Question 6 of 10

6. In 1979, Ricky Schroder became the youngest winner of a Golden Globe award. The award was given for his role as T.J. Flynn, in which (re-made) film? Hint

King Kong

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

Rocky II

The Champ

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Question 7 of 10

7. Priyanshi Somani was just twelve years old when she won a World Championship event at the University of Magdeburg, in Germany, in 2010. In which discipline was she crowned the champion? Hint

Mental mathematics

Music (she is a gifted pianist)

Chess

Astrophysics

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Question 8 of 10

8. Which famous entertainer of the 20th century won a full scholarship to the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music, aged just nine? Hint

Victor Borge

Stephen Sondheim

Irving Berlin

Tom Lehrer

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Question 9 of 10

9. In 1995, Balamuri Ambati graduated from his university (college) education aged just seventeen. He became the world's youngest practitioner of which medical discipline? Hint

Brain Surgery

Opthalmology

Urology

Cardiology

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Question 10 of 10

10. This American boy enrolled at the Juilliard School of Music when he was just eleven years old. One of his best known works was composed to commemorate the victims of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Who is he? Hint

Jay Greenberg

Michael Redwood

Simon Blackburn

Zachary Silverman

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Bernoulli

Johann III Bernoulli, sometimes called Jean, died in 1807, when he was 63. He was a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, one of only a few non-Swedes to be accorded the honour.

2. Which of these actors was the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, when he was put forward for his role in the film "Skippy"?

Answer: Jackie Cooper

As well as Cooper's record breaking nomination, "Skippy" was also the first film based on a cartoon strip to be nominated for the Oscar for Best Picture. It was released in 1931, when Cooper was just nine years old. Cooper played the title role.

Answer: Benz

His mother married his father Johann Benz when Karl was a few months old. Johann died when Karl was just two, and it was then that his name was changed to Benz.

Answer: Alexander Pope

Pope is also remembered for his translations of Homer's "Iliad" and "Odyssey". He suffered from tuberculosis and was in poor health for much of his life, dying when he was fifty six, in 1744.

Answer: He helped translate the Rosetta Stone hieroglyphics

Possibly the best known piece of Young's work is Young's Modulus of Elasticity, which he formulated in 1809.
He also devised a method for tuning musical instruments which is named after him.

6. In 1979, Ricky Schroder became the youngest winner of a Golden Globe award. The award was given for his role as T.J. Flynn, in which (re-made) film?

Answer: The Champ

The original film of "The Champ" was released in 1931. The 1979 remake starred Jon Voight as ex-boxer Billy Flynn, and Schroder as his son. It was directed by Franco Zeffirelli.

7. Priyanshi Somani was just twelve years old when she won a World Championship event at the University of Magdeburg, in Germany, in 2010. In which discipline was she crowned the champion?

Answer: Mental mathematics

Priyanshi was the youngest of almost forty competitors, who came from all over the world. She has also won several other awards and prizes for her mathematical abilities.

8. Which famous entertainer of the 20th century won a full scholarship to the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music, aged just nine?

Answer: Victor Borge

Both of Victor's parents were musicians, and he began learning to play piano and violin at just two years of age.
With the outbreak of World War II, he managed to make his way to the United States to escape persecution from the Nazis. He died, aged 91, in 2000 and part of his ashes was interred in the States, and part in Copenhagen.

9. In 1995, Balamuri Ambati graduated from his university (college) education aged just seventeen. He became the world's youngest practitioner of which medical discipline?

Answer: Opthalmology

Dr. Ambati graduated from his high school education aged thirteen, before studying medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He went on to become an Associate Professor at the University of Utah.

Answer: Jay Greenberg

Jay began playing cello when he was two years old, and his tutors at Juilliard have compared his talents to those of Mozart and Mendelsson.
He composed "Overture to 9-11" which was first broadcast on the tv show "From the Top".

Source: Author Rowena8482

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