5-Year-Old Whiz Kid Snubs Free Sony Tablet from Jimmy Kimmel… He'll Wait for an IPad!
Five-year-old genius Arden Hayes does not take well to inferiority, and apparently, he also accepts nothing less than Apple products.
Making his second appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" Wednesday night, Hayes schooled Kimmel in a world geography lesson, and in turn, the talk show host offered him a new Sony Xperia Tablet Z as a gift.
Hayes, however, declined.
"You could just give it away because we're planning to get an iPad for Christmas," he told Kimmel.
The gift came after the talk show host quizzed Hayes to prove he knew every country and capital in the world.
After successfully identifying Paraguay and its capital (Asuncion), Yemen and its capital (Sana'a), and Latvia and its capital (Riga), Hayes broke down the seven countries that made up the former Yugoslavia, and identified Afghanistan and all those other "stan" countries around it.
He also informed Kimmel that his map of the world was incorrect.
"That does not have South Sudan on it," Hayes commented, pointing out Sudan on the map. "[It] broke into a southern half."
Kimmel replied, "I'm going to make sure somebody gets fired over that."
Suffice it to say, Hayes evidenced his skill.
The whiz kid, who lives in California and is home-schooled, also appeared on the show in July as a "Presidential Expert," discussing his intricate knowledge of all U.S. presidents and funny facts about them.
KansasCity.com reports that Hayes' parents supplement his education with regular visits to historic sites. They've opted to keep him out of traditional school for the time being, as they feel he's too advanced for his grade.
Nevertheless, he still seems interested in typical kids things. In fact, while he turned down the tablet, he was excited by a globe puzzle that Kimmel also gave him.
Previously, Kimmel hooked him up with a Lego set of the White House, and that too went over well.
He's just not impressed with Sony, apparently, though we suspect his parents might feel otherwise.
