Statistics for Famous People With Disabilities

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Classical composer; was totally deaf	Ludwig Van Beethoven	81%
Speaker, author, activist; grew up blind and deaf	Helen Keller	76%
Wheelchair-bound physicist, author	Stephen Hawking	74%
Blind singer and songwriter; known for "Superstition"	Stevie Wonder	74%
Only U.S. President confined to a wheelchair	Franklin D. Roosevelt	73%
Invented a raised-dot reading system for the blind	Louis Braille	66%
Quadriplegic actor known for "Superman"	Christopher Reeve	65%
Blind singer and pianist; known for "Georgia on My Mind"	Ray Charles	64%
Inspirational speaker, actor, born with no arms or legs	Nick Vujicic	28%
Deaf; won an Oscar for best actress in "Children of a Lesser God"	Marlee Matlin	27%
Blind operatic tenor	Andrea Bocelli	26%
Kansas Senator and 1992 Presidential candidate	Sen. Bob Dole	19%
Blind guitarist and singer; known for "Felice Navidad"	Jose Feliciano	18%
Country singer with spina bifida; known for "Your Cheatin' Heart"	Hank Williams, Sr.	14%
The original Siamese twins	Chang and Eng Bunker	13%
Actor; best known as Radar O'Reilly on MASH	Gary Burghoff	9%
One-handed Major League pitcher	Jim Abbott	7%
Hawaii Senator & WWII Medal of Honor RECIPIENT	Sen. Daniel Inouye	7%
Quadriplegic Christian author, speaker, and activist	Joni Eareckson Tada	6%
Little person, actor, activist; one of the Munchkins	Billy Barty	3%
Medal of Honor recipient; Nebraska Senator	Sen. Bob Kerrey	3%
Blind writer of over 1000 poems and hymns	Fanny Crosby	2%