A 12-year-old 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, from Barnet, was a contestant on Channel 4’s Child Genius. He recently shocked viewers on a recent show by answering every single question correctly.
Rahul 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.
In the timed question round, he beat every other contestant by scoring 14 out of 15. The timer ran out before he could answer the last question.
However, Rahul lost out to rival Joshua during Tuesday’s maths test, prompting him to lose his cool.
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?”
13 Responses
that’s still lower than my IQ mine’s 181
How do you find out your IQ?
I just want to be like him!
That is a very high IQ test score because when I did it about a year ago I got around 20 I think.
That is unbelievable! Probably smarter than Albert Einstein? That is a very high IQ! Good on Rahul!
Cool
nice
he looks very tired and in that photo he was sweating a lot.
this is not the only child genius
why he so angry
Sore loser
I can beat him and I am 11
WOW! He must of studied hard