Outliers Chapter 3 & 4

Who do some people consider the smartest man in the world?

• Henry Cowell

• Bertrand Russell

• Chris Langan

• Albert Einstein

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What is the average person's IQ?

• 900

• 3

• 150

• 100

At what number did Langan stop competing on 1 vs 100 and take the money?

• 1,000,000

• 250,000

• 10,000

• 525,789,098

According to Gladwell's text, who is more likely to win a Nobel Peace Prize?

• Tim, who has the best imagination and an IQ of 130

• Bobby, who is based on facts and has and IQ of 180

• Jeff who has an IQ of 100 and no imagination whatsoever

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True or False: Gladwell believes that intelligence has a threshold.

• True

• False

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True or False: After Terman's decades of research on his "termites," he concluded that there is a strong correlation between intellect & achievement.

• True

• False

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How did Christopher Langan lose his scholarship at Reed College?

• He was truant and didn't attend his classes.

• His mother never signed the appropriate scholarship renewal forms.

• He was insubordinate to his professors, constantly arguing with them.

• His grades were not good enough.

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On page 94, Christopher Langan is quoted as saying, "And that was the point I decided I could do without the higher-education system. Even if I couldn't do without it, it was sufficiently repugnant to me that I wouldn't do it anymore." What made him say this?

• He was denied his request to be moved to afternoon classes as he didn't have transportation to his early morning classes.

• He didn't think the professors were as smart as he was.

• He wanted to be put in higher level classes, but he didn't have the pre-requisites.

• He watched far too many fellow students fail out of the higher education system.

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Robert Oppenheimer is known for his work on which major project?

• Molecular structure of DNA

• Polio Vaccine

• Wireless Internet

• Nuclear bomb during WW2

Robert Oppenheimer was put on probation while studying for his doctorate in Physics at Cambridge University for which reason?

• Not meeting the grade requirements

• Not finishing his dissertation

• Attempting to poison his tutor

• Stealing other students' lab results

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