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1. This author's father, brother, sister and granddaughter all chose to end their own lives. Who is this Nobel Prize winning author?
2. The 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, is said to have experienced debilitating depression throughout his lifetime. How did he so eloquently describe his illness?
3. He was an extraordinary aviator and a billionaire business tycoon yet Howard Hughes suffered obsessive compulsive disorders which many believe arose from his severe phobia of which of the following?
4. Vincent van Gogh was a prolific artist who suffered epileptic seizures which some say was brought on by his prolonged consumption of which highly alcoholic drink?
5. In some annals he's been known as "The Benefactor" in others as "The Mad King". He ruled France from 1380 to 1422 and, at one time, believed he was made of glass. Who was this fragile ruler?
6. He wrote great psychological thrillers and was fascinated by madmen but was he, himself, a mad man? Rufus Griswold certainly thought so when he published a libellous obituary about which author?
7. The winner of the 1994 Nobel Prize for Economics also developed an equilibrium theory. Ironically he was unbalanced by bouts of paranoid schizophrenia, delusions and "voices in his head". Who was this brilliant mind?
8. Beaten and exploited by his father this brilliant composer may have suffered from a bipolar disorder. From darkness to manic creativity whose "Ninth Symphony" was an "Ode to Joy"?
9. Despite suffering a catalogue of symptoms attached to a bipolar disorder and an array of other psychotic tendencies which great scientist rose above these odds to build the first reflecting telescope, introduced us to the laws of motion and virtually invented calculus?
10. "A Streetcar Named Desire" made him a household name but a fear of madness spun which dramatist into a lifetime of substance abuse and a depression as deep as midnight?
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