Gerard Darrow(1932-1980)
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.