Joan Bishop - IQ 157, though she thinks it might have been 117. Taught herself to read at 3. Set out to become an opera star, but t last report, was a New York housewife. Ruth Feldman draws parallel between Joan Bishop and Bubbles Silverman--Beverly Sills. Joan was said to have  "had a glorious voice". Sills was a voice prodigy, Joan was a piano prodigy. "Sills, throughout her youth studied with a top teacher and later, had mentors who guided her progress. Joan's first voice teacher of major repute was one she had in Italy for a few months at twenty-two. She had no mentor or manager; a babe in the big city, she did everything on her own."
    "Most important, Sills had the single-minded determination to make it in opera. In her late teens, she cut out Broadway diversions to concentrate on serious training. Like Joan, she sang for a while in club lounges, helping to support her widowed mother. But she left that work and, starting with lesser opera companies, eventually tried out seven times for the New York City Opera before being accepted.
    "Joan perhaps was less than adept at managing her career, too timid, too easily discouraged. There was a scattershot quality about her, a predilection for show biz that distracted her from pursuing her stated goal." [of becoming an opera star]
    This comparison is interesting. It dovetails nicely with what Ellen Winner has said about musical and other prodigies needing mentoring and coaching by top teachers to make it to the top, and by the requirement for dedication to, and single-minded focus on a particular goal.

Claude Brenner - IQ 149 - a "terribly retentive memory" Chosen because of his British accent. His Quiz Kids experience haunted him. As of 1982, a moderately successful energy consultant.

Jack Lucal - ? - Outstanding memory, became a Jesuit.

Margaret Merrick - Was off-the-charts in reading (12th-grade +) in the eighth grade. Got Ph. D. Now (1982) a consultant.

Richard Williams - IQ 165 at 4.5, 200 at 8.5, didn't speak until 2.5, learned to read at 3.5. His father taught him algebra when he was 7. Became a career diplomat.

Harve Bennet (Fischman) - IQ 176 - Began speaking in sentences at 10 months. Learned to read after starting school. became a highly successful  television producer.

Vanessa Brown = IQ 169 - Started as a highly promising young actress, ended up a housewife, jounalist, and author. (Died of cancer at 71 in 1999.)

Joel Kupperman - IQ 200+ - 18 months when he started to talk. At 3, was adding and subtracting. At 4, could total mother's grocery bill faster than an adding machine. Father coached him 15 minutes before breakfast. Is a philosophy professor at Un of Connecticut.

Lonny Lunde - IQ 200 - ("I'm very test-oriented.") Musical prodigy. Began playing shortly after his 4th birthday. Plays piano at an upscale bar.

Patrick Conlon - IQ 143 on one test, higher on another - Spoke in full sentences at a year, and knew 100 nursery rhymes. At two, he could recite poems that he had heard once. Pat's mother was a prodigy, admitted to the University of Illinois at 14. "I absolutely cursed a good memory. I really do no know how to forget." Pat is an amateur actor, working a New York office job.

Naomi Cooks - School wouldn't release her IQ. Board of Education - "You have an amazing child." - Began to talk at 19 months. Read billboards at 2. At 8, she was reading at high school level. Working on Ph. D. Co-owner of a boutique, "Think Big".

Harvey Dytch - IQ 136 - Very cute little boy. Specialty was dinosaurs. Checkered educational history. Graduated from college at 28. Was driven to become normal. Computer programmer.
 
 ) Drs. Crick and Watson were cited as examples of Nobel Laureates who had IQs below 120, but who made it through pluck, luck, and fortitude. Ha! Instead they would seem to be examples of the advantages of a high IQ in making it big in the sciences.
Ruth Duskin Feldman became an educator in the Chicago area, writing a book entitled, "What Ever Happened to the Quiz Kids?" She has been one of three authors co-authoring the widely used textbook, "A Child's World" (McGraw Hill), now in its 8th edition. She has also written four other books, including, "Perils and Profits of Growing Up Gifted".
Bobby Ray Inman became an admiral and was nominated for the post of deputy director of the CIA.
Mark Mullins, after appearing on the Quiz Kids between the ages of 6 and 10, and graduating from Harvard, became an Episcopal priest, and served as the headmaster of the prestigious St. Albans prep school in Washington, D. C. (Albert Gore, III, was a student there.)
Louis Edward Sissman has been hailed as one of the outstanding poets of the 20th century.
Robert Easton is a movie director, having directed such movies as "the Red Badge of Courage" and "Star Trek VI".
Alan Kay was one of the masterminds behind Xerox' Parc, and Apple Computer.

More material is presented below:
"Stressing the Smart Kids"
Life Magazine, August 5
Roby Kesler (wrote book "The Quiz Kids")
Quiz Kids Radio Programs
More Quiz Kid Radio Programs
Quiz Kids on TV
Quiz Kids Movie