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12-year-old girl scores 162 in the Mensa IQ test, beats Einstein and Hawking

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A young girl in the UK has outperformed geniuses Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking in a Mensa-supervised IQ test.  Twelve-year-old Lydia Sebastian from Essex took the test in an attempt to enter the society, which only accepts the top 2 percent of IQs, and scored 162 - the maximum possible score for people under 18 years old.  Einstein never took a modern IQ test, but it's believed that he had an IQ of 160, the same score as Hawking. Only 1 percent of those who sit the Mensa test achieve the maximum mark, and the average score is 100. A 'genius' test score is generally considered to be anything over 140. This is the second time in a month that a young female has outperformed some of the best minds in science - 12-year-old Nicole Barr, also from the UK, achieved the same score in August - and it's pretty encouraging news that shows age isn't a limiter for intelligence. However, its also important to note that IQ tests, or intelligence quotient tests, a...

Some Old People Played Some Young People At Drinking Games

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Everyone thinks they're the king of drinking games. Be it beer pong, ring of fire or a good old fashioned boat race. The general consensus is that drinking games are for the young. The 18-25 year olds whose bodies can take the physical punishment of drinking alcohol on demand. What no-one ever thinks about is that old people have got experience. Not to mention the extra half a century or so of drinking alcohol behind them. Our friends over at Complex decided to pit a team of college seniors against a team of senior citizens at various drinking games. The result will surprise you...