Q 01/05

Canadian youth hockey sorts players by calendar year, so Outliers finds the elite are mostly born in which months?

A) January to March

B) April to June

C) July to September

D) October to December

Answer · why

A) January to March

January to March babies are the oldest in each age group, so they look like better athletes early, get picked for elite squads and receive the extra c...

Q 02/05

Outliers made famous a rule, built on studies of expert musicians, that mastery takes about how many hours of practice?

A) 100

B) 1,000

C) 10,000

D) 100,000

Answer · why

C) 10,000

10,000 hours works out to roughly 20 hours a week for ten years, and Gladwell reckons he reached the mark himself during his first decade as a working...

Q 03/05

Outliers credits the Beatles' sound to marathon club sets played seven nights a week from 1960 in which German city?

A) Berlin

B) Hamburg

C) Munich

D) Cologne

Answer · why

B) Hamburg

Hamburg gave the band, then a five-piece with Stuart Sutcliffe and Pete Best, its club apprenticeship, and Gladwell argues that the sheer amount of st...

Q 04/05

Outliers begins in Roseto, a close-knit Pennsylvania town where 1960s doctors found strikingly little of which illness?

A) Tuberculosis

B) Type 2 diabetes

C) Heart disease

D) Lung cancer

Answer · why

C) Heart disease

Heart disease was reported in Roseto at about half the national rate, and the researchers who studied the town credited the strong social bonds among ...

Q 05/05

Which airline's 1997 crash on a hillside in Guam anchors the Outliers chapter about culture and cockpit communication?

A) Japan Airlines

B) Korean Air

C) China Airlines

D) Singapore Airlines

Answer · why

B) Korean Air

Korean Air lost 229 of the 254 people aboard Flight 801, and Gladwell argues that deference to the captain kept the junior crew from voicing their ala...