Stephen Hawking - Test
Stephen Hawking
  • 1. In what year was Stephen Hawking born?
A) 1955
B) 1968
C) 1942
D) 1974
  • 2. Which disease did Stephen Hawking battle for most of his life?
A) Diabetes
B) ALS
C) Heart disease
D) Cancer
  • 3. Which university did Stephen Hawking attend for his Ph.D. studies?
A) University of Cambridge
B) Stanford University
C) Harvard University
D) Oxford University
  • 4. What is the title of Stephen Hawking's famous book published in 1988?
A) The Grand Design
B) Black Holes and Baby Universes
C) A Brief History of Time
D) The Theory of Everything
  • 5. What is the name of the computerized speech system that Stephen Hawking used to communicate?
A) Equalizer
B) SpeechMaster
C) VoxSynth
D) TalkBot
  • 6. Which fellowship did Stephen Hawking hold at the University of Cambridge?
A) Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics
B) Darwinian Professorship of Biology
C) Newtonian Chair of Astronomy
D) Knightbridge Professorship of Physics
  • 7. What is the name of Stephen Hawking's daughter who is a novelist?
A) Alice Hawking
B) Emily Hawking
C) Lucy Hawking
D) Sophie Hawking
  • 8. Where was Stephen Hawking born?
A) Oxford, England
B) Manchester, England
C) Cambridge, England
D) London, England
  • 9. Which popular TV show did Stephen Hawking make multiple guest appearances on?
A) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
B) The Big Bang Theory
C) Stranger Things
D) Breaking Bad
  • 10. Which scientific award did Stephen Hawking receive in 2012?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) Nobel Prize in Physics
C) Presidential Medal of Freedom
D) Oscar for Best Scientific Documentary
  • 11. During his undergraduate studies, what subject did Stephen Hawking excel in?
A) History
B) Mathematics
C) Physics
D) Literature
  • 12. What was the title of Stephen Hawking's last book, published posthumously in 2018?
A) Brief Answers to the Big Questions
B) There Is No God
C) The Grand Design
D) The Universe in a Nutshell
  • 13. What is the title of Stephen Hawking's autobiographical book published in 2013?
A) A Brief History of Time Revisited
B) My Brief History
C) Black Holes and Baby Universes
D) The Grand Design
  • 14. At what age was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with motor neurone disease?
A) 18
B) 30
C) 25
D) 21
  • 15. How did Stephen Hawking communicate after losing his speech?
A) Using sign language
B) With a voice synthesizer controlled by eye movement
C) Via written notes only
D) Through a speech-generating device using a single cheek muscle
  • 16. Who did Stephen Hawking collaborate with on gravitational singularity theorems?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Albert Einstein
C) Roger Penrose
D) Richard Feynman
  • 17. Which interpretation of quantum mechanics did Stephen Hawking support?
A) Copenhagen interpretation
B) Pilot-wave theory
C) Many-worlds interpretation
D) Transactional interpretation
  • 18. How long did 'A Brief History of Time' remain on the Sunday Times bestseller list?
A) 150 weeks
B) 100 weeks
C) 237 weeks
D) 200 weeks
  • 19. In which year was Stephen Hawking ranked number 25 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons?
A) 2010
B) 1999
C) 2002
D) 2005
  • 20. How many years did Stephen Hawking live after his diagnosis with motor neurone disease?
A) 20 years
B) More than 50 years
C) 40 years
D) 30 years
  • 21. What did Stephen Hawking's paternal great-grandmother do to save the family?
A) Wrote a book
B) Opened a school in their home
C) Started a medical practice
D) Bought more farm land
  • 22. What was Frank Hawking's specialization?
A) Tropical diseases
B) Physics
C) Economics
D) Philosophy
  • 23. Where did the Hawking family move when Frank became head of the division of parasitology?
A) Glasgow
B) Mallorca
C) St Albans, Hertfordshire
D) Oxford
  • 24. What was unique about the Hawking family's meals?
A) Each person often spent it silently reading a book.
B) They ate out every night
C) They only ate vegetarian food
D) They had elaborate dinner parties
  • 25. How did the Hawking family travel?
A) By train
B) In a converted London taxicab.
C) On foot
D) By horse-drawn carriage
  • 26. For how long did Stephen Hawking attend St Albans High School for Girls?
A) Two years
B) One year
C) A few months
D) Six months
  • 27. What did Stephen Hawking build in 1959?
A) A bicycle
B) A record player from spare parts
C) A car
D) A television set
  • 28. How did Stephen Hawking convince his father to let him build a record player?
A) By promising to pay for it himself
B) By persuading him that he could assemble one from cheap parts
C) By showing how much he wanted it
D) By getting permission from his school
  • 29. What nickname was Stephen Hawking known by at school?
A) Tesla
B) Newton
C) Einstein
D) Galileo
  • 30. At what age did Stephen Hawking begin his university education?
A) 20
B) 19
C) 18
D) 17
  • 31. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's physics tutor at Oxford?
A) Fred Hoyle
B) Jayant Narlikar
C) Robert Berman
D) Dennis William Sciama
  • 32. What condition was necessary for Stephen Hawking's acceptance into graduate study at Cambridge?
A) A third-class degree
B) An honors thesis
C) A second-class degree
D) A first-class degree
  • 33. Who was Stephen Hawking's doctoral supervisor at Cambridge?
A) Jayant Narlikar
B) Fred Hoyle
C) Robert Berman
D) Dennis William Sciama
  • 34. What disease was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with during his doctoral studies?
A) Motor neurone disease
B) Alzheimer's disease
C) Multiple sclerosis
D) Parkinson's disease
  • 35. Which prize did Stephen Hawking share with Roger Penrose for his essay 'Singularities and the Geometry of Space–Time'?
A) Hughes Medal
B) Dannie Heineman Prize
C) Eddington Medal
D) Adams Prize
  • 36. In which year did Stephen Hawking and James M. Bardeen develop the four laws of black hole mechanics?
A) 1969
B) 1973
C) 1981
D) 1975
  • 37. What is the title of the book that contains lectures from the Starmus III Festival?
A) Black Holes and Baby Universes
B) Beyond the Horizon
C) The Universe in a Nutshell
D) A Brief History of Time
  • 38. In which Star Trek series did Stephen Hawking appear as a holographic simulation of himself?
A) Star Trek: Discovery
B) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
C) Star Trek: The Next Generation
D) Star Trek: Voyager
  • 39. What was Jane Hawking's field of study for her PhD?
A) Mathematics
B) Physics
C) Theoretical astrophysics
D) Medieval Spanish poetry
  • 40. What was the title of the Pink Floyd song that featured Stephen Hawking's synthesiser voice in 1993?
A) Wish You Were Here
B) Comfortably Numb
C) Keep Talking
D) Another Brick in the Wall
  • 41. Which festival in 2016 was dedicated to Stephen Hawking?
A) Starmus III Festival
B) Quantum Physics Symposium
C) Science Gala 2016
D) Hawking Science Fest
  • 42. Which U.S. president's policies did Hawking criticize for denying evidence of climate change?
A) George W. Bush
B) Donald Trump
C) Barack Obama
D) Bill Clinton
  • 43. Which political party did Stephen Hawking support during his lifetime?
A) Labour Party
B) Liberal Democrats
C) Green Party
D) Conservative Party
  • 44. When was the Higgs boson discovered, confirming Hawking's bet?
A) December 2015
B) March 2010
C) July 2012
D) June 2008
  • 45. Who did Stephen Hawking collaborate with to propose the Hartle–Hawking state?
A) Jim Hartle
B) Kip Thorne
C) Brandon Carter
D) Leonard Susskind
  • 46. According to Stephen Hawking, what is the real risk with AI?
A) Competence
B) Malice
C) Obsolescence
D) Inefficiency
  • 47. What healthcare system did Stephen Hawking believe was essential for his survival into his 70s?
A) Private health insurance
B) Universal Healthcare
C) The NHS (National Health Service)
D) Medicare
  • 48. Which institution did Stephen Hawking visit in 1973, influencing his work on quantum gravity?
A) Cambridge University
B) California Institute of Technology
C) Moscow
D) University of Oxford
  • 49. In 1997, who did Stephen Hawking concede a bet to regarding the black hole information paradox?
A) Gary Gibbons
B) John Preskill
C) Kip Thorne
D) Thomas Hertog
  • 50. What did Stephen Hawking say could answer philosophical problems?
A) Science, particularly new scientific theories.
B) Historical analysis and interpretation.
C) Religious teachings and doctrines.
D) Traditional philosophical methods.
  • 51. Which radio programme did Stephen Hawking appear on in 1992?
A) BBC Radio 4
B) Desert Island Discs
C) StarTalk
D) The Science Hour
  • 52. What did Stephen Hawking consider as a pivotal factor in steering humanity's fate?
A) : Space exploration
B) Superintelligent artificial intelligence (AI)
C) : Renewable energy
D) : Genetic engineering
  • 53. Which journal published Stephen Hawking's work on gravitational radiation from colliding black holes?
A) Journal of High Energy Physics
B) Communications in Mathematical Physics
C) Physical Review Letters
D) Nature
  • 54. In what year did Stephen Hawking retire as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics?
A) 2009
B) 2017
C) 2018
D) 2015
  • 55. When was the Hawking Building opened to the public as part of the Science and Innovation Park?
A) March 2019
B) June 2018
C) October 2024
D) May 2021
  • 56. Which organization was Stephen Hawking associated with during his university years?
A) A group promoting the existence of God.
B) A religious fellowship at Oxford University.
C) The scientific community opposing religion.
D) Oxford University's humanist group.
  • 57. Which documentary film about particle physics received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) Horizon: The Hawking Paradox
B) Stephen Hawking's Universe
C) The Theory of Everything
D) Particle Fever (2013)
  • 58. Who developed the 'Equalizer' computer program that helped Hawking communicate?
A) Bernard Carr
B) Walter Woltosz
C) Don Page
D) Elaine Mason
  • 59. Which musical work by Beethoven did Stephen Hawking choose as part of his Desert Island Discs selections?
A) Symphony No. 9
B) Fifth Symphony
C) String Quartet No. 15
D) Moonlight Sonata
  • 60. In what year did Stephen Hawking pose an open question on the Internet regarding the sustainability of humanity?
A) 2010
B) 1998
C) 2006
D) 2025
  • 61. Who offered Stephen Hawking a free flight into space?
A) Jeff Bezos
B) Elon Musk
C) Richard Branson
D) Bill Gates
  • 62. What is one of the main focuses of the Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship?
A) Historical research
B) Political contributions
C) Literary achievements
D) Impacts affecting younger generations
  • 63. In which year was Stephen Hawking elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)?
A) 1974
B) 1992
C) 1984
D) 2006
  • 64. Which award did Stephen Hawking decline in the late 1990s?
A) Presidential Medal of Freedom
B) Nobel Prize
C) Knighthood
D) Copley Medal
  • 65. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's second wife?
A) Elaine Mason
B) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
C) Lucy Hawking
D) Jane Wilde
  • 66. Which particle's existence did Stephen Hawking bet against being found?
A) The Higgs boson
B) WIMPs
C) Gravitons
D) Neutrinos
  • 67. Which children's book by Stephen Hawking was published in 2009?
A) George and the Unbreakable Code
B) George and the Big Bang
C) George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
D) George and the Blue Moon
  • 68. Who was Ghislaine Maxwell, mentioned in the context of an email involving Stephen Hawking?
A) A British child sex trafficker
B) A musician
C) An astronaut
D) A physicist
  • 69. According to Stephen Hawking, why should contact with aliens be avoided?
A) Aliens are inherently hostile.
B) Aliens might pillage Earth for resources.
C) Contact could lead to cultural misunderstandings.
D) Aliens might bring diseases.
  • 70. Stephen Hawking and which collaborator worked on the gravitational Hamiltonian in the presence of non-orthogonal boundaries?
A) J. B. Hartle
B) C J Hunter
C) Thomas Hertog
D) Roger Penrose
  • 71. What is the name of the mechanical clock unveiled by Stephen Hawking at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge?
A) Timekeeper
B) Horologium
C) Chronophage
D) Tempus Fugit
  • 72. In which year did Stephen Hawking receive an Honorary Doctorate from Imperial College London?
A) 2015
B) 2017
C) 2009
D) 2013
  • 73. Who was the first recipient of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) Composer Hans Zimmer
B) Physicist Jim Al-Khalili
C) Brian May
D) Film Particle Fever
  • 74. Which book by Stephen Hawking was co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow and discusses the concept of 'The Grand Design'?
A) God Created the Integers
B) A Briefer History of Time
C) My Brief History
D) The Grand Design
  • 75. In what year did Stephen Hawking publish his paper on 'Black holes in general relativity'?
A) 2005
B) 1974
C) 1972
D) 1983
  • 76. Which U.S. presidential candidate did Hawking record a video tribute for in 2000?
A) John McCain
B) Bill Clinton
C) George W. Bush
D) Al Gore
  • 77. Which sitcom featured a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking in 2013?
A) The Simpsons
B) South Park
C) Family Guy
D) Futurama
  • 78. In which month and year was a speech of Stephen Hawking's beamed into space?
A) June 2018
B) March 2019
C) May 2021
D) November 2018
  • 79. What did Stephen Hawking believe could prevent human extinction in the event of a planet-wide disaster?
A) Building underground cities
B) Creating genetically modified humans
C) Developing nuclear bunkers
D) Colonising additional planets
  • 80. Which company operated the flight that took Stephen Hawking to experience weightlessness?
A) Virgin Galactic
B) SpaceX
C) Blue Origin
D) Zero-G Corp
  • 81. Who co-edited a book with Hawking on Euclidean quantum gravity?
A) Kip Thorne
B) Gary Gibbons
C) Thomas Hertog
D) John Preskill
  • 82. Which of these dangers did Stephen Hawking NOT mention as a risk to life on Earth?
A) Genetically engineered virus
B) Alien invasion
C) Nuclear war
D) Global warming
  • 83. Who lived with the Hawking family during Stephen's position at Caltech?
A) Elaine Mason
B) Bernard Carr
C) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
D) Don Page
  • 84. What theory did Stephen Hawking propose in his inaugural lecture as Lucasian Professor?
A) N = 8 supergravity
B) Cosmological inflation
C) Hartle–Hawking state
D) Quantum gravity
  • 85. Which organization issued a commemorative 50p coin in honor of Stephen Hawking?
A) The U.S. Mint
B) The European Central Bank
C) The Bank of England
D) The Royal Mint
  • 86. On what date did Stephen Hawking fly aboard a specially-modified Boeing 727-200 jet to experience weightlessness?
A) 14 March 2018
B) 26 April 2007
C) 1 January 2006
D) 15 August 2012
  • 87. What initiative did Stephen Hawking help launch in 2015 to search for extraterrestrial life?
A) Alien Discovery Mission
B) Breakthrough Initiatives
C) Extraterrestrial Life Initiative
D) Cosmic Search Project
  • 88. What did Stephen Hawking propose about information in a black hole in 1981?
A) Information can be retrieved after evaporation.
B) Information is irretrievably lost when a black hole evaporates.
C) Information is converted into Hawking radiation.
D) Information is stored at the event horizon.
  • 89. What accent did the voice synthesizer originally use for Stephen Hawking?
A) Australian accent
B) British accent
C) American accent
D) Canadian accent
  • 90. Which award did Stephen Hawking receive at the 2016 Pride of Britain Awards?
A) Lifetime achievement award
B) Science Communicator of the Year
C) Best Scientist Award
D) Innovator of the Year
  • 91. In what decade did Stephen Hawking begin accepting the role model mantle for disabled people?
A) 1980s
B) 2000s
C) 2010s
D) 1990s
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