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