Outliers Quizzes

Outliers Quiz 1

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

Ohio

Kentucky

West Virginia
2 In what way were the people of Roseto unusually healthy?
Low incidence of obesity

Remarkable exercise habits

Low incidence of heart disease

Above-average height
3 What explains the remarkable health of the people of Roseto?
Their uncommon genetic makeup

The good weather in Roseto itself

Their healthy diets

The structure of their community
4 The Medicine Hat Tigers faced which team in the 2007 Memorial Cup?
Montreal Bears

Vancouver Giants

Toronto Ravens

Calgary Pirates
5 What, according to Gladwell, is a misconception about Canadian hockey?
That it is a pure meritocracy

That it requires years of training

That it is popular in small communities

That it is a challenging sport
6 What is the optimum birth month for a Canadian hockey player?
November

January

April

July
7 The "Matthew Effect" takes its name from which source?
The essays of Matthew Arnold

The theories of anthropologist Matthieu Vallant

The Gospel of Matthew

An article by sociologist Karen Matthew
8 What university did Bill Joy attend?
MIT

University of North Carolina

University of Michigan

Yale
9 Which company did Bill Joy co-found?
Sun Microsystems

HP

Oracle

Adobe
10 What is the 10,000-Hour Rule?
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

An idea about how birth year determines career prospects
11 How did the Beatles refine their talents as musicians?
By attending a top-ranked music academy

By performing long shows in Hamburg

By signing on an agent who was a talented jazz pianist

By only playing music when they felt inspired
12 In what metropolitan area did Bill Gates grow up?
Oakland

Portland

Santa Fe

Seattle
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?
John D. Rockefeller

Henry Ford

William Henry Vanderbilt

Bill Gates
15 What was the ideal birth decade for an American industrial tycoon?
1880s

1830s

1800s

1850s
16 What was the ideal birth decade for a Silicon Valley entrepreneur?
1940s

1960s

1970s

1950s
17 What early advantage did Steve Jobs have in his technology career?
Contact with Hewlett-Packard scientists

An early stint at Boeing

An early stint at IBM

Contact with the faculty of MIT
18 On what TV show did Chris Langan appear?
Greed

1 vs. 100

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire

Jeopardy!
19 Which of the following was NOT one of Chris Langan's accomplishments?
High language aptitude

An honorary doctorate

A perfect SAT score

High musical aptitude
20 What did Lewis Terman's study involve?
Following high-IQ students over an extended time period

Finding ways to raise the IQs of seemingly normal students

Figuring out a better method of testing IQ in American schools

Founding a special school for students with high IQs
21 What is Raven's Progressive Matrices?
A system used to screen Microsoft job applicants

A system developed by Lewis Terman

A purely visual intelligence test

A purely spoken intelligence test
22 What is considered an average IQ
80

100

125

115
23 Above what IQ will there cease to be any real-world advantage?
105

80

90

120
24 What number does Outliers give for Chris Langan's IQ?
160

130

225

195
25 How does Gladwell build his case that IQ and college placement are not always related to real-world success?
By considering game show hosts

By considering U.N. Officials

By considering Pulitzer Prize winners

By considering Nobel 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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