An impish two-year-old from south London has become the youngest ever member of the famous genius club Mensa, after he secured a whackingly incredible 141, just four notches shy of the Genius category, in an IQ test. And the genius is Adam Kirby, from Mitcham in south London, scored 141 in the IQ test that ranks him smarter than US president Barack Obama and British premier David Cameron.
Adam, two years and five months, is the youngest boy to join the Mensa club, and the other record was Elise Tan-Roberts, again from London, was younger than Adam at two years four months when joined but his score was lower. Elise is now six-years old. The toddler was invited to join the elite group after demonstrating his ability to read Shakespeare and understand the Japanese, Spanish and French, according to local media reports.
The toddler stunned his parents Dean and Kerry-Ann Kirby by spelling 100 words and mastering both his times tables and the periodic table of chemical elements. "Adam's abilities are outstanding. While most children are just learning to stand up or crawl, Adam was reading books. His development was mind-blowingly quick," Dean, a 33-year-old IT consultant from Mitcham, South London, said. "We used to show him cards with the words hippopotamus and rhinoceros on them and he could identify the right animals most of the time," said Dean. Adam's high IQ of 141 – just four shy of the Genius category –compares with the average Briton's score of 100. “We look forward to Adam joining and expect him to have a very bright future," Mensa chief executive John Stevenage said.
