MINDTERMS

Question 1

A person, especially a young one, endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities

Answer 1

Prodigy

Question 2

was the child prodigy par excellence, playing songs on the harpsichord at four years old and composing simple music at five.

Answer 2

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Question 3

was considered a mathematics and physics prodigy.

Answer 3

Enrico Fermi

Question 4

learned to read as a toddler and quickly blazed through all the books in her grandfather’s library.

Answer 4

Juana Inés de la Cruz

Question 5

had a brush in his hand from an early age.

Answer 5

Pablo Picasso

Question 6

spent his youth being privately tutored at home by his father.

Answer 6

Blaise Pascal

Question 7

An award-winning student, the Frenchman published his first work in 1870 at the age of 15 before running away to Paris and making his name as a writer and rabble-rouser.

Answer 7

Arthur Rimbaud

Question 8

didn’t speak until age 4, but by the time she was 7 she was already spending up to three hours a day mastering the piano.

Answer 8

Clara Schumann

Question 9

Born in France in 1790, he displayed a natural talent for languages from an early age and went on to master Latin, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Sanskrit and Coptic by his mid-teens.

Answer 9

Jean-Francois Champollion.