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