Success Trivia … Back by Popular Demand

Back by popular demand … let’s play another round of success trivia. Can you identify these successful leaders?

1. Who wrote his first computer program at the age of thirteen?

– Bill Gates

2. What famous general finished last in his class at West Point?

– General George Custer

3. Who is the only living woman who owns her own film studio?

– Oprah Winfrey (the other two were Lucille Ball and Mary Pickford)

4. This US Senator earned every badge while in Girl Scouts.

– Hillary Clinton

5. This queen of France could not speak French at the time of her marriage to Louis XVI in 1770.

– Marie Antoinette

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