Mensa, the high IQ Society, has granted membership to a two-year-old boy for an IQ score of 141, a rank reportedly 10 points higher than Barack Obama and David Cameron.
According to media reports, Adam Kirby from Mitcham, South London has become one of the 19 children to get entry to the British Mensa before entering school. The toddler proved his intelligence by scoring high on the Standford Binet test that evaluates knowledge in fluid reasoning, visual spatial processing, quantitate reasoning, knowledge and working memory, The Telegraph reported.
Being born to an IT consultant Dean and wife Kerry-Ann, the little boy started exhibiting his extraordinary abilities by starting to read by nine months of age.
"We don't know where he got it from, we both work with figures and out work is quite challenging but he's turning into a genius," Kerry-Ann, who works in financial services in the City, told the newspaper. "He was around nine months we realised he was different. We were showing him cards with the words hippopotamus and rhinoceros on them and he could identify all of them in pictures."
Since then, the brainy boy has been constantly surprising his parents by exploring works of some of the greatest writers in the history of English literature like Shakespeare and Roald Dahl and spelling more than 100 words, reciting tables up to ten, counting numbers in different languages, including English (over 1000), Spanish and Japanese (up to 20). Apart from that, the boy has also solved puzzles related to courtiers and their position in the World map by his first birth day.
The couple first identified the unusual talent in their son when he potty trained self after reading a book related to the subject before turning two and thus decided to take him for the IQ test .
Apart from little Adam, the couple has another child, two-month old son named Ethan.
Last April, a four-year-old girl Heidi Hankins had grabbed wide attention for joining Mensa with an IQ score of 159, reportedly a rank just one point below that of Einstein and Stephen Hawking.
