Marilyn Mach Vos Savant on Letterman, March 11, 1986

thank you very much Paul tomorrow on this show Gregory Hines will be here stupid human tricks and the smartest woman in the world Marilyn makes fun of vas vas

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seven huh she's so smart we don't know how to pronounce her name that's how smart this woman is and she She's the smartest woman in the world, yeah I bet she's fine, so why is she on this show? Well, thanks Paul and welcome back friends and as always thanks to the people who helped us that night with our stupid human tricks, she was very kind. Let them do it for us according to an article in Us magazine this week.

Sorry, this week's Us magazine. My next guest is the smartest woman in the world. Her IQ. What do you think? Paul for an intelligent woman. Martini. Well, Jill St.. John was 141, well we gotta go, this woman has almost doubled, she's 230, that's her IQ score. Wow, that's the highest ever recorded, please, welcome Marilyn. that means something oh well

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is my last name she was just a middle name eh my mom CH is not a pseudonym by the way you savant just savant was my grandmother's name before she got married my grandfather's name was both savant most of us We did it but does it have any literal meaning?

It doesn't mean a wise man or something good, that's more of a coincidence, isn't it? Yes, it's a great coincidence. I think so, well, I mean the smartest person in the world really had. that name yeah, you know, you think I made it up, but I didn't know, no, no, I didn't know, you didn't think this, you know, you were thinking negative, you win, now I'm sorry, if someone tells you. You have sexy teeth no I haven't heard that believe me and I'm not her you have sexy teeth no I won't have them yeah that's right that's how you have sex.

I'm Kevin and some people aren't. I know what I don't, I don't have, I have miserable teeth, I mean, they're healthy, it's just that you know, I can eat, I can eat things through fences, not that there's a need for that, but it's okay, Marilyn, let's go back. to you. and your head, and now how do we know that you are the most intelligent woman in the world? Well, you probably don't know. I think anyone really knows that not many people have taken an IQ test, which is why I got the highest score on the test.

B'nai so far I bet this person, a minority of people in the world have taken a test, what did Ben do? No, for God's sake, I mean, back in 1904, he didn't hide and trip over a rosette stone. He said this is what I think I'm going to do and everyone's been imitating him ever since, so you took the test when you were ten, yeah, right after you were ten, yeah, and now what are you up to? do you dedicate? I am now a full-time writer. I was in the investment business for a while I stayed in it long enough to make enough money to support myself as a writer no, now you do smart things, yes you win, if I were to have dinner with you I would be like, oh my gosh, she really She is the most intelligent woman in the world. world in about four minutes I'm going to do something very clever wait, what is that?

I'm going to quit, damn, don't let me keep you, ha ha, we got a guy here who crushes cans with his head, well, you know. I watched the Bo Derek episode a couple of times and they were like, "Oh my god, this guy is dangerous, yeah, fabulous, I have to watch it again mm-hmm, I think they're Maryland, we have to do what do you think we have to do here?" ". You can find Oh, something stupid, no, we have to take a break to watch a commercial, okay, and then we'll come back to visit more with the smartest person, the smartest person on this show, ladies and gentlemen, a comedian and actor Very talented fun, Michael.

Keaton will be here comedian Roseanne Barr and Mariel Hemingway will be joining us that will be later tomorrow on the parole show tonight Burnett will be here and so will Gregory Hines this is the smartest person in the world now do you feel smart? I mean, do you think you are? You really are a smart person, you took the test at 10:00. Do you think you're still as smart as you were the last time I took a test like a year ago? mm-hm oh, you took the ten IQ test, okay? bets, where is your score better or worse since Ashley?

The last test was not standardized because only about 10,000 people took it. I had a record score on that, so they put it in the Guinness, but I think one in 10,000 isn't. maybe get to something like an IQ of 150 yeah so you have to retire you do it theoretically until a million people accept it she's a bit but shouldn't you be doing something more important with your life if you are the smartest person? Is he working on the Jarvik Seven or something? Well, I have your philosophy. Oh, what was it time to tune the piano? You know, we called the guy last week and he couldn't be here because of the holidays. twice women in the world I'm sorry oh please very deep question I have the same philosophy as you on Monday night I just don't care okay okay eh no it says here that we have some kind of biographical information about you oh no i hope you weren't wrong oh well you come he came from your office so i guess not she is currently dating five men as you are a famous talk show host a pilot airline and a comedian now who are these people and is this lady talk show host currently singing like a famous talk show host yeah yeah she's that smart to be seen we won't tell you I know you'll ask the talk show with and I'm not going to tell you I've had calls from all over the country I'm not going to tell anyone I told someone I told a Robertson you know I think I'm smarter than you I know I'm not No I think you're close to 2:30 and regardless of what you are, I'm 10 points higher than you, go ahead and ask me anything.

I wonder anything. I'm much smarter than you. This she is not the person smarter than me. I'm sorry, you know, one time, wait a minute, one time, Marilyn, we had a woman who claimed to be the fastest typist in the world and it turned out she wasn't the fastest typist in the world, so I'll forgive you a little bit if I'm a little skeptical, okay, but you know what I'm saying, it's how do we know that you know, okay, go ahead and ask me a question, what are you doing on Saturday night? Look, that's good, that's a dumb question.

I thought it was better for everyone. everyone knows Saturday night eyeball G Maryland it was a pleasure meeting you thank you very much the smartest first