It runs in families

It always fascinates me when somebody who does something remarkable in the world has a child who does a completely different remarkable thing in the world. It’s much more interesting than when any one field, be it acting, or science, or politics, runs in families. For when a child achieves something completely different from their parent’s contribution, it speaks to a more fluid and mysterious kind of inheritance — a spark of excellence that mutates freely as it passes between generations.

See if you can match up these achievements of parent:

(A)	Inventor of Liquid Paper
(B)	Academy Award winning actress whose career spanned 68 years.
(C)	Co-founder of the American Temperance Society
(D)	Inventor of Spin Art

with the achievements of the child:

(1)	Actor who played the young Kwai Chang Caine
(2)	Accomplished songwriter, musician, philanthropist and one-time teen idol
(3)	Internet pioneer, inventor of the hyperlink
(4)	Writer of, arguably, the most politically influential book in American history

Sometimes it gets even more interesting, when the same person is famous for having done at least two completely different things. See if you can match a particular person’s achievement:

(A)	Hollywood actress once known as “the most beautiful woman in the world”
(B)	Writer of the lyrics to one of the world’s most beloved songs
(C)	Legendary rock and roll guitar god
(D)	Renowned ventriloquist

with another notable achievement by the same person:

(1)	Inventor of the world’s first artificial heart
(2)	Astrophysicist who contributed to our understanding of the science of interstellar dust clouds
(3)	Co-inventor of spread-spectrum, the underlying technology for cell phone communication
(4)	Inventor of the stereoscopic technology used in many 3D movies today