Q 01/05

Which sport does Freakonomics mine for evidence that competitors with seven wins are gifted an eighth?

A) Amateur boxing

B) Olympic fencing

C) Sumo wrestling

D) Table tennis

Answer · why

C) Sumo wrestling

Sumo wrestling data showed 7–7 wrestlers beating 8–6 opponents about 80% of the time on the final day, far above the odds. Eight wins from fifteen bou...

Q 02/05

Freakonomics argues that which backyard feature is far likelier than a gun to kill a young child?

A) A swimming pool

B) A trampoline

C) A climbing frame

D) A treehouse

Answer · why

A) A swimming pool

A swimming pool is about 100 times likelier than any one gun to cause a child's death, Steven Levitt calculated. He noted that parents still fear the ...

Q 03/05

Freakonomics links the 1990s fall in American crime to which Supreme Court ruling of two decades earlier?

A) Miranda v. Arizona

B) Gideon v. Wainwright

C) Furman v. Georgia

D) Roe v. Wade

Answer · why

D) Roe v. Wade

Roe v. Wade legalised abortion nationwide in 1973, and the book argues that fewer unwanted births meant fewer young offenders roughly eighteen years l...

Q 04/05

Freakonomics reveals the surprisingly low pay of Chicago street dealers selling which drug for a gang?

A) Crystal meth

B) Crack cocaine

C) Black tar heroin

D) Marijuana

Answer · why

B) Crack cocaine

Crack cocaine paid its street sellers so little that many still lived with their mothers, the puzzle that gives the chapter its title.

Q 05/05

Paul Feldman, whose honor-system sales data fill a Freakonomics chapter on cheating, left economics to sell which food?

A) Bagels

B) Sandwiches

C) Pretzels

D) Muffins

Answer · why

A) Bagels

Bagels sold on an honor system let Feldman, a former economist, measure exactly how often customers paid when nobody was checking.