Our new hero : A British 12-year-old girl received the highest possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test, beating Einstein and Hawking.
Lydia Sebastian scored higher than both Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking on the test (Einstein never actually took it, but it’s estimated he would have scored the same as Hawking’s 160). “At first, I was really nervous but once I started, it was much easier than I expected it to be and then I relaxed and gave my best shot” Sebastian told The Guardian.
Sebastian joins the ranks of other Mensa child geniuses Nicole Barr, 12, who garnered a perfect score in August, and 10-year-old Aahil Jouher. Only 1% of all test takers score the highest possible mark. Check out a sample quiz on the Mensa website includes questions like, “If a circle is one, how many is an octagon?” (answers: 2,4,6,8, or 12), and “Fill in the missing number: 0,1,1,2,3,5,8,13, __ ,34,55.”……
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