Gerard Darrow

With an I.Q of 144, and a prodigious memory for a child, he was the first 'Quiz Kid' to be recruited for the radio program, having delivered a school lecture in Chicago, at age six, in which he identified three hundred bird species. When asked on the program 'Where would you plant vallisnaria and calomba?' he replied coolly, "in a fish bowl because they are aquatic plants." He was unsuccessful in his later life, living on welfare.