Whiz Kids, or variants, may refer to:
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Whiz kid
A child prodigy is defined in psychology research literature as a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful output in some domain at the level of an adult expert. The term is also applied more broadly to young people who are extraor ...
, a child prodigy, a child who produces meaningful output in some domain to the level of an adult expert performer
Film, television and games
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Wiz Kid
The X-Men are a team of Mutant (Marvel Comics), mutant superheroes, published in American comic books by Marvel Comics. Over the decades, the X-Men have featured a rotating line up composed of many characters.
Notation:
* Characters in bold are ...
, Taki Matsuya, a fictional mutant character in Marvel Comics
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''Whiz Kids'' (TV series), American science fiction adventure television series 1983
* ''
Wizkid: The Story of Wizball II'', a 1992 video game developed by Sensible Software
Music
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Wizkid
Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun (born 16 July 1990), known professionally as Wizkid, is a Nigerian singer and songwriter. A prominent figure in the modern-day Afrobeats music scene, Wizkid is regarded as one of the biggest and most influential Afri ...
, Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun (born 1990), a Nigerian singer and songwriter
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The Whizz Kids
The Whizz Kids was a New Zealand rock band featuring Andrew Snoid, Mark Bell, Tim Mahon
Tim Mahon is a New Zealand musician who played in the Plague, the Whizz Kids and Blam Blam Blam. He was seriously injured in a road accident while ...
, a New Zealand pop/rock band
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''Whiz Kids'' (album), by Gary Burton, 1986
Sports
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Whiz Kids (baseball) The Whiz Kids is the nickname of the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies of Major League Baseball. The team had a number of young players: the average age of a member of the Whiz Kids was 26.4. The team won the 1950 National League pennant but failed to win ...
, the 1950 Philadelphia Phillies baseball team
* Whiz Kids, the
1942–43 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team
The 1942–43 Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team represented the University of Illinois.
Regular season
The 1942–43 Illinois Fighting Illini men’s basketball team represented the University of Illinois. The Illinois Fighting Ill ...
Other
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WizKids, collectible miniatures games developer and publisher
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Whiz Kids (Ford)
The Whiz Kids were a group of ten United States Army Air Forces veterans of World War II who became Ford Motor Company executives in 1946.
The group was part of a management science operation within the Army Air Force known as Statistical Contr ...
, a group of post-World War II Ford Motor Company executives
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Whiz Kids (Department of Defense)
Whiz Kids was a name given to a group of experts from RAND Corporation with which Robert McNamara surrounded himself in order to turn around the management of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) in the 1960s. The purpose was to shape a ...
, a group of experts for RAND Corporation
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WhizzKids United a South African youth HIV / AIDS prevention, care, treatment and support programme
* ''
Whizzkid's Guide'', books by magician Peter Eldin
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Suzuki Cervo
is a Japanese multinational corporation headquartered in Minami-ku, Hamamatsu, Japan. Suzuki manufactures automobiles, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), outboard marine engines, wheelchairs and a variety of other small internal com ...
SC100 was known in England by the nickname "Whizzkid"
See also
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WHIZ (disambiguation)
WHIZ, Whiz or Whizz may refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media
* WHIZ (AM), an American radio station
* WHIZ-FM, an American radio station
* WHIZ-TV, an American TV station
* ''Whiz Comics'', a comic book anthology series 1940–1952 known for C ...
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