A 12-year-old Indian-origin boy from North London has been found to have an IQ of 162 Rahul, who is a contestant on British television show Child Genius is apparently smarter than Einstein and Stephen Hawking His IQ of 162 qualifies him to be a member of Mensa club, the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world
A 12-year-old Indian-origin boy from North London has been found to have an IQ of 162, higher than the estimated scores of Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein.
Rahul, who is a contestant on a British television show, has become an overnight sensation after he answered all questions correctly.
He got all 14 of his questions correct in the first round of the latest series of Child Genius, a show broadcast by Channel 4.
The self-declared “genius” correctly memorised the scientific name for the apricot tree (prunus armeniaca) and knew that phoenix dactylifera refers to the date palm. During a spelling test, he was able to spell words including accouchement, hyponatraemia and garrulous.
His IQ of 162 qualifies him to be a member of Mensa club, the largest and oldest high IQ society in the world.
However, as neither scientist is recorded as having taken an IQ test, the scores are only estimates.
In a timed memory round, he answered 14 questions out of 15 correctly, but did not have time to answer the final question.
“I always want to do the best, and I’ll do that no matter what the cost. I think I’m a genius. I’m good at mental maths, general knowledge and I find it quite easy to memorise stuff,” said Rahul, who cites his favourite language as Latin.
“Most kids want immediate gratification but I also want long-term gratification. If I could play maybe my Xbox now, I’ll be really happy now, but I might be sad later on because I haven’t revised for my test,” he said.
However, Rahul lost his cool after losing out to rival Joshua during Tuesday’s maths test.
Having initially said he “accepted” that Joshua had won and that he would now focus on the next round, Rahul then attempted to walk off set, saying: “I don’t want to comment on my defeat so do you mind if I just leave, please?” reported the Independent.
Rahul’s IT manager father, Minesh, and pharmacist mother Komal said their son was in the game to win and their role was to encourage him.
“We are here to win. There’s no two ways about that. We’re all achievers. I used to play table tennis for Barnet council. We’re always trying to better ourselves,” said Minesh.
Twitter had some funny reactions on Rahul.
