IQ Test Scores:
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The IQ test scale itself hasn't change much over the past 100 years. A score of 100 continues to be average. The IQ tests themselves have to be tweaked every decade or so, since otherwise "average" scores would climb quite considerably.
This chart helps show where your smarts measure up:
According to the Guiness Book of World Records, Writer Marilyn Vos Savant holds the record for having the world's highest IQ. Her IQ has been measured at 228.
History's Most Brilliant Minds
IQ tests are a fairly modern invention when you consider the great minds of all time. Experts have estimated that some of the most brilliant leaders achieved these results:
Voltaire 190
Blaise Pascal 195
Bobby Fischer 187
Galileo Galilei 185
da Vinci 180
Charles Dickens 180
Rene Descartes 180
Michelangelo 180
Immanuel Kant 175
Charles Darwin 165
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 165
Beethoven 165
Nicolaus Copernicus 160
Benjamin Franklin 160
Cervantes 155
Rembrandt 155
Abraham Lincoln 150
Napoleon 145
George Washington 140
If you'd like to learn more about the
great minds throughout history -- and their IQ test scores --
this link offers some excellent insight.