The Late Bloomer’s Revolution

 Quiz

1)   Malcolm Gladwell called which of the following Late Bloomers:

     a) Mark Twain

     b) Alfred Hitchcock

     c) Paul Cezanne

     d) Fleetwood Mac

All of the Above. Unlike other writers who peaked in their twenties, Mark Twain, Gladwell said, produced his greatest work in his fifties. Hitchcock produced his greatest film, “Pyscho,” at 51.  Cezanne did his best work late in his sixties.  As for Fleetwood Mac, Rumors was their sixteenth album & their most successful.

2)   Lucille Ball was how old when “I Love Lucy” debuted?

             a) 30

             c) 37

             d) almost 40

Almost forty!  Plus, in 1951, just one month shy of her 40th birthday, Ball gave birth to her first child, Lucie. A year and a half later, she gave birth to her son, Desi, who would late become Marcia Brady’s big crush on a classic Brady Bunch episode. Basically, Lucy is a late bloomer hall of famer.

3)   Which of these are true?

             a) David Sedaris was 37 when his first book was published.

             b) Henry Miller didn’t publish Tropic of Cancer until he was 44.

             c) John Grisham’s first. novel was rejected by 16 agents and a dozen publishing houses.

             d) The Marquis De Sade was 51 when his first book was published. 

All of the Above.  (Good news! It’s never too late to be jailed for indecency).

4)     Who said, “It’s never too late to be what you might have been.”

             a) George Washington

             b) George Eliot

             c) George Bush

             d) George Sand

George Eliot, aka Marian Evans, wrote her greatest novel, Middlemarch, at the age of 50.

5) Your favorite Late Bloomer catchphrase is:

a)     I’m looking forward to my Teri Hatcher moment (or Nicolette Sheridan or   Patrick Dempsey.)

b)    I’m on the Colonel Sanders plan (he began his franchise business and became a multimillionaire at sixty-five).

c)     Einstein didn’t read until he was seven! (True.  And he didn’t speak until he was four).

d)    If  “Grandma Moses” can do it, so can I (she didn’t start painting until she was in her seventies).