Outliers Quizzes

Outliers Quiz 1

1 Where in America is the town of Roseto located?
Pennsylvania

Kentucky

Ohio

West Virginia
2 In what way were the people of Roseto unusually healthy?
Above-average height

Low incidence of heart disease

Low incidence of obesity

Remarkable exercise habits
3 What explains the remarkable health of the people of Roseto?
The good weather in Roseto itself

The structure of their community

Their healthy diets

Their uncommon genetic makeup
4 The Medicine Hat Tigers faced which team in the 2007 Memorial Cup?
Vancouver Giants

Montreal Bears

Calgary Pirates

Toronto Ravens
5 What, according to Gladwell, is a misconception about Canadian hockey?
That it requires years of training

That it is a challenging sport

That it is popular in small communities

That it is a pure meritocracy
6 What is the optimum birth month for a Canadian hockey player?
April

November

January

July
7 The "Matthew Effect" takes its name from which source?
An article by sociologist Karen Matthew

The Gospel of Matthew

The theories of anthropologist Matthieu Vallant

The essays of Matthew Arnold
8 What university did Bill Joy attend?
Yale

University of North Carolina

University of Michigan

MIT
9 Which company did Bill Joy co-found?
HP

Oracle

Adobe

Sun Microsystems
10 What is the 10,000-Hour Rule?
An idea about how birth year determines career prospects

An idea about how many hours the average human spends on recreation

An idea about the importance of practice in achieving excellence

An idea about the amount of time it takes to find the ideal job
11 How did the Beatles refine their talents as musicians?
By performing long shows in Hamburg

By only playing music when they felt inspired

By signing on an agent who was a talented jazz pianist

By attending a top-ranked music academy
12 In what metropolitan area did Bill Gates grow up?
Santa Fe

Portland

Seattle

Oakland
13 What advantage did Bill Gates have during his schooling?
Chances to travel to Asia and Europe

A famous physicist as his teacher

Chances to build rudimentary robots

A computer terminal in his school
14 Who, at the time Outliers appeared, was the richest man in history?
Bill Gates

John D. Rockefeller

Henry Ford

William Henry Vanderbilt
15 What was the ideal birth decade for an American industrial tycoon?
1850s

1800s

1880s

1830s
16 What was the ideal birth decade for a Silicon Valley entrepreneur?
1950s

1940s

1960s

1970s
17 What early advantage did Steve Jobs have in his technology career?
An early stint at IBM

Contact with the faculty of MIT

Contact with Hewlett-Packard scientists

An early stint at Boeing
18 On what TV show did Chris Langan appear?
Greed

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

1 vs. 100

Jeopardy!
19 Which of the following was NOT one of Chris Langan's accomplishments?
An honorary doctorate

High musical aptitude

High language aptitude

A perfect SAT score
20 What did Lewis Terman's study involve?
Figuring out a better method of testing IQ in American schools

Following high-IQ students over an extended time period

Finding ways to raise the IQs of seemingly normal students

Founding a special school for students with high IQs
21 What is Raven's Progressive Matrices?
A system developed by Lewis Terman

A purely spoken intelligence test

A purely visual intelligence test

A system used to screen Microsoft job applicants
22 What is considered an average IQ
100

80

115

125
23 Above what IQ will there cease to be any real-world advantage?
80

105

120

90
24 What number does Outliers give for Chris Langan's IQ?
225

130

160

195
25 How does Gladwell build his case that IQ and college placement are not always related to real-world success?
By considering U.N. Officials

By considering game show hosts

By considering Nobel Prize winners

By considering Pulitzer Prize winners

Yes, I believe that certain people are born with certain talents.

Gladwell says that in the end, preparation becomes plays a bigger role than talent. The "best" practice more than anyone else. Thus, someone with innate talent must still prepare or...

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