MEET five-year-old Roy Browne, he's Ireland's whiz kid
quiz kid.
WHIZKID QUIZ KID; Roy's a brain-teaser prizewinner...at just FIVE years of age
Then there's Stanley, TV's current child genius and former
Quiz Kid Donnie Smith (William H Macy) who's a warning of how winners can still wind up as losers.
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Actress-writer Vanessa Brown, who escaped Nazi Europe to become a celebrated radio Quiz Kid, Jane opposite Lex Barker's film "Tarzan," the toast of Broadway in "The Seven Year Itch" and respected as author of a book on labor policy, died May 21 of cancer at the' Motion Picture and Television Country Home in Woodland Hills, Calif.
By age 14, Brown, who spoke four languages, was a member of the hit radio show "The Quiz Kids." In 1952, she co-starred on Broadway with Tom Ewell in the hot comedy "Seven Year Itch," a role played in the film version by Marilyn Monroe.
OBITUARIES
In their new role, the "
Quiz Kids" became known as "Whiz Kids," a moniker previously associated with the University of Illinois' basketball team.
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Apparently Joel Kupperman, the subject of son Michael Kupperman's new comic (as I gather graphic novels and memoirs are now being called), was one of the most famous people in the United States from roughly 1943 to 1954, the years when he starred on radio and then TV as one of the
Quiz Kids. He was a math prodigy, or at least a fast-computation prodigy; he was extremely good at solving word problems, mailed in by the audience, but eventually he abandoned the field and became a philosophy professor.
Michael Kupperman Has 'All the Answers' in His Latest Graphic Novel
It tells the story of the author's father, Joel Kupperman, who became famous as one of the stars of the 1940s and '50s radio and television show "
Quiz Kids." The elder Kupperman subsequently became an author and professor of philosophy, but he retreated from public life as an adult.
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Quiz kids; the radio program with the smartest children in America, 1940-1953.
Quiz kids; the radio program with the smartest children in America, 1940-1953
The specific needs of the gifted had not even been fully conceived or set forth by Lewis Terman and Leta Hollingworth when these early prodi The
Quiz Kids radio program debuted on June 28, 1940, and at the height of its popularity had 10 million listeners.
The public's fascination with prodigious youth
She was awarded a Certificate of Honor in the
Quiz Kids Best Teacher Contest, and was also honored by the Massachusetts Senate for her dedication to the Students of Southbridge.
Camella M. (D'Elia) Dintini, 95
When TJ and Seymour, master fact gatherers and ace cat wranglers, are asked to join their school's
Quiz Kids team, Seymour is keen (as usual), but TJ has his doubts.
TJ and the Quiz Kids
The fourth and possibly the best yet in Hazel Hutchins' engaging series, TJ and the
Quiz Kids once again brings together TJ, his two cats and his excitable friend Seymour.
TJ and the Quiz Kids
The younger of the
quiz kids, Stanley (Jeremy Blackman), even asks for meteorological instruments (and has been studying a book by Charles Fort, chronicler of unexplained downpours).
Rain Man
Later came Pot O'Gold, The Treasure Chest, the appealing
Quiz Kids, Truth and Consequences, People are Funny, Take It or Leave It, the Kay Kyser Kollege of Musical Knowledge, Double or Nothing, Can You Top This, and Break the Bank.
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Education and culture were valued by his grandfather especially, and young John showed great intelligence and talent from the start--he appeared on the national radio show "
Quiz Kids" at age 14--and knew from an early age that he was meant for something more far-reaching than the family business.
A poet's roots