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1. Johann III was a member of a family who were famous for their many scientists and mathematicians. He is particularly notable however, as he was awarded a doctorate aged just thirteen. At nineteen he was given the post of Astronomer Royal in Berlin.
What was his family name?
2. Which of these actors was the youngest person ever to be nominated for a Best Actor Oscar, when he was put forward for his role in the film "Skippy"?
3. Born Karl Friedrich Michael Vaillant, he passed the entrance exams and went to study at the University of Karlsruhe aged just fifteen. He was always interested in cycling, and went on to become world famous in the field of transport. By what surname is he better known?
4. Which writer and poet, who is the "third most quoted" in the "Oxford Dictionary of English Quotations" and author of "The Rape of the Lock", was known for his learning as a child, and first became well known for his writings aged just twenty one?
5. Thomas Young is perhaps best known as a scientist, and in particular a physicist. He entered university to study medicine whilst still a teenager, and could speak at least ten languages by the time he was fourteen. Which of these things is he also remembered for?
6. In 1979, Ricky Schroder became the youngest winner of a Golden Globe award. The award was given for his role as T.J. Flynn, in which (re-made) film?
7. Priyanshi Somani was just twelve years old when she won a World Championship event at the University of Magdeburg, in Germany, in 2010. In which discipline was she crowned the champion?
8. Which famous entertainer of the 20th century won a full scholarship to the Royal Danish Conservatory of Music, aged just nine?
9. In 1995, Balamuri Ambati graduated from his university (college) education aged just seventeen. He became the world's youngest practitioner of which medical discipline?
10. This American boy enrolled at the Juilliard School of Music when he was just eleven years old. One of his best known works was composed to commemorate the victims of the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center in New York. Who is he?
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