Think Mensa members are all super-nerdy bookworms? Guess again. These famous folks are (or were at one time) members of the high-IQ society. They sure are an interesting bunch. (And they've got to be smart, too. To qualify for Mensa membership, your IQ must be in the top 2 percent of the population!)
1. Geena Davis 1988 Academy Award winner (for The Accidental Tourist) and an expert archer!
2. Scott Adams Creator of the internationally syndicated comic strip "Dilbert."
3. Joyce Carol Oates Author of dozens of books, including one that won the National Book Award, and a professor at Princeton University.
5. Norman Schwarzkopf Planned Operation Desert Storm, the campaign that liberated Kuwait during the Persian Gulf War.
6. Patricia Jennings Keyboardist for the Pittsburgh Symphony.
7. Buckminster Fuller Engineer, designer, architect, and writer who once said, "I just invent. Then I wait until man comes around to needing what I've invented."
8. Marilyn vos Savant Reputed to have the world's highest recorded IQ. Answers brainteasers each week in her Parade magazine column "Ask Marilyn."
9. Isaac Asimov Best known for his science-fiction writing. Wrote more than 400 books, including mystery stories, humor, history, and several volumes on the Bible and William Shakespeare.
10. Alan Rachins Played a lawyer on the Emmy Award-winning television program L.A. Law and Dharma's hippy father on Dharma and Greg.
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