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Steelmonkey said:
250
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Correct. Estimated 250-300. But sad really.
This American was born into a family of New York City intellectuals. William James Sidis (1898 – 1944) was gifted from an extremely young age. When he was only 5 years old he was already able to type and had learned several languages including Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, Russian, German, and, of course, English.

After he was initially turned down when he was 6, William was finally admitted to Harvard University at the age of 11. He didn’t have an easy time in college, later moving to Texas where he became a teacher. He attempted a political career but died young (at age 46), penniless.
 
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sb_73 said:
Correct. Estimated 250-300. But sad really.
This American was born into a family of New York City intellectuals. William James Sidis (1898 – 1944) was gifted from an extremely young age. When he was only 5 years old he was already able to type and had learned several languages including Greek, Latin, French, Hebrew, Russian, German, and, of course, English.

After he was initially turned down when he was 6, William was finally admitted to Harvard University at the age of 11. He didn’t have an easy time in college, later moving to Texas where he became a teacher. He attempted a political career but died young (at age 46), penniless.
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Brendan O Carroll, aka Mrs Brown, has an IQ measured in the region of 160, make of that what you will!
 
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Steelmonkey said:
Not that one either
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Excuse me while I just name seas at random...

Sargasso Sea
South Seas (as in South Sea Islands - given that it’s a chunk of the Pacific it must be pretty big)
South China Sea
Is the Caribbean a Sea or an ocean?
Mediterranean (I think not)
 
sb_73 said:
Excuse me while I just name seas at random...

Sargasso Sea
South Seas (as in South Sea Islands - given that it’s a chunk of the Pacific it must be pretty big)
South China Sea
Is the Caribbean a Sea or an ocean?
Mediterranean (I think not)
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None of them Stan....
 
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QPR999 said:
The East Siberian sea looks quite big.

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Nice picture, but not the answer.

There are two types of sea, Marginal Sea, which is partly surrounded by land and Mediterranean Sea, mostly surrounded by land. The answer is a Marginal Sea.....
 
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Sooperhoop said:
Looking at Nines's map the Phillipine Sea covers some area with lots of little islands amongst it...
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That's the one Sooper - over 5 million sq km, beating the Coral Sea which has about 4.7 million sq km. It is also home to the deepest part of the earth within one of the multitude of trenches along it's floor.

All yours
 
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Ok, let's have a music question: Three different songs by three different artistes but all with the same song title have reached No.1 in the UK or US charts. One of them also had a cover version reach No.1 in the UK six years ago. What was the song title and the three different artistes? And if you're really with it who was the cover version by?...
 
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