<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Website </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> www.marilynvossavant.com </Td> </Tr> <P> Marilyn vos Savant (/ ˌvɒs səˈvɑːnt /; born August 11, 1946) is an American magazine columnist, author, lecturer, and playwright . She was listed as having the highest recorded Intelligence quotient (IQ) in the Guinness Book of Records, a competitive category the publication has since retired . Since 1986, she has written "Ask Marilyn", a Parade magazine Sunday column where she solves puzzles and answers questions on various subjects . Among them was a discussion of the Monty Hall problem, which she answered correctly in 1990 . </P> <P> Marilyn vos Savant was born Marilyn Mach in St. Louis, Missouri, to parents Joseph Mach and Marina vos Savant . Savant says one should keep premarital surnames, with sons taking their fathers' and daughters their mothers' . The word savant, meaning someone of learning, appears twice in her family: her grandmother's name was Savant; her grandfather's, vos Savant . She is of Italian, Czechoslovak, German, and Austrian ancestry, being descended from physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach . </P>

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