Outliers Quizzes

Outliers Quiz 1

By Patrick Kennedy · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed November 02, 2016

1 Where in America is the town of Roseto located?

Pennsylvania

West Virginia

Ohio

Kentucky
2 In what way were the people of Roseto unusually healthy?

Low incidence of heart disease

Low incidence of obesity

Remarkable exercise habits

Above-average height
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

Toronto Ravens

Calgary Pirates

Montreal Bears
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?

January

July

November

April
7 The "Matthew Effect" takes its name from which source?

The Gospel of Matthew

The essays of Matthew Arnold

An article by sociologist Karen Matthew

The theories of anthropologist Matthieu Vallant
8 What university did Bill Joy attend?

MIT

Yale

University of Michigan

University of North Carolina
9 Which company did Bill Joy co-found?

Oracle

Sun Microsystems

HP

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

An idea about the importance of practice in achieving excellence

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

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 only playing music when they felt inspired

By performing long shows in Hamburg

By signing on an agent who was a talented jazz pianist
12 In what metropolitan area did Bill Gates grow up?

Santa Fe

Oakland

Portland

Seattle
13 What advantage did Bill Gates have during his schooling?

Chances to build rudimentary robots

A famous physicist as his teacher

Chances to travel to Asia and Europe

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

John D. Rockefeller

Bill Gates

William Henry Vanderbilt

Henry Ford
15 What was the ideal birth decade for an American industrial tycoon?

1830s

1880s

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 the faculty of MIT

Contact with Hewlett-Packard scientists

An early stint at IBM

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?

High language aptitude

High musical aptitude

A perfect SAT score

An honorary doctorate
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

Founding a special school for students with high IQs

Figuring out a better method of testing IQ in American schools
21 What is Raven's Progressive Matrices?

A system developed by Lewis Terman

A system used to screen Microsoft job applicants

A purely spoken intelligence test

A purely visual intelligence test
22 What is considered an average IQ

115

100

125

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

80

120

105

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

195

160

225

130
25 How does Gladwell build his case that IQ and college placement are not always related to real-world success?

By considering Pulitzer Prize winners

By considering game show hosts

By considering Nobel Prize winners

By considering U.N. Officials

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