Who Are The Gifted? (History Lesson) Question Preview (ID: 32003)


Creative And Imaginative People Are Often Not Recognized By Their Contemporaries...even More Often, They Are Not Recognized By Their Teachers. History Is Full Of Examples. TEACHERS: click here for quick copy question ID numbers.

This rocket engineer flunked 9th grade algebra.
a) Werner von Braun
b) Michael Jordan
c) Einstein
d) Isaac Newton

When this inventor was a boy, his teachers told him he was too stupid to learn anything.
a) Barry Manalow
b) Isaac Newton
c) John Beck
d) Thomas Edison

This past president of the US failed the 6th grade.
a) John F. Kennedy
b) Winston Churchill
c) Hillary Clinton
d) Barack Obama

An editor told this writer that she could never write anything that had popular appeal.
a) Mary Higgins Clark
b) Louisa May Alcott
c) Danielle Steel
d) Julia Gordman

This person entered the Black Hawk War as a captain and came out a private.
a)
b)
c) Abraham Lincoln
d)

This person had been retired from the Navy as unfit for service until he flew over both poles.
a) John F. Kennedy
b) Admiral Byrd
c) George Washington
d) John Glenn

___________________ got a job in a dry goods store when he was 21, but his employer wouldn't let him wait on customers because he didn't have enough sense.
a) F.W. Woolworth
b) Sears
c) Roebuck
d) Lawrence Welk

This famous person did poorly in grade school but later in life helped develop the laws of motion.
a) Mr. Beck
b) Henry Thoreau
c) Thomas Edison
d) Isaac Newton

His music teacher once said of him, as a composer, he is hopeless.
a) Bach
b) Beethoven
c) Braun
d) Hemingway

This person was four years old before he could speak and seven before he could write.
a) Abraham Lincoln
b) Einstein
c) Thomas Edison
d) Winston Churchill

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