Arden Hayes (born January 30, 2008) is an American former child prodigy from Southern California.
He became known at age 5 for his knowledge of American geopolitics, reciting Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address", and being able to identify the countries of the world and name the capitals of each.
[2] This spurred many additional newspaper articles and blogs and Arden appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
[3] On November 5, 2013, Arden again appeared on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, and displayed his knowledge of the nations of the world and their capitals and rejected a Sony Xperia Tablet Z because he was already planning to get an iPad for Christmas.
for the third time on April 2, 2014, and showed his interest and knowledge about chemical elements in the periodic table.