Robert Aumann - Quiz
Robert Aumann
  • 1. In which year did Robert Aumann receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences?
A) 2002
B) 2005
C) 1998
D) 1994
  • 2. Whom did Robert Aumann share the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with?
A) L.S. Shapley
B) Sergiu Hart
C) Thomas Schelling
D) Joseph Kruskal
  • 3. Which prize did Robert Aumann receive from Northwestern University in 1998?
A) Harvey Prize
B) Israel Prize
C) EMET Prize
D) Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics
  • 4. In what year did Robert Aumann receive the Israel Prize for economics?
A) 2002
B) 1983
C) 1994
D) 1974
  • 5. What award did Robert Aumann receive from the city of Jerusalem in 2006?
A) Israel Prize
B) Harvey Prize
C) Nobel Prize
D) Yakir Yerushalayim
  • 6. In which year was Robert Aumann named a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences?
A) 1983
B) 1974
C) 2005
D) 1994
  • 7. Which publication did Robert Aumann coauthor with Joseph Kruskal in 1958?
A) Lectures on Game Theory
B) Repeated Games with Incomplete Information
C) The Coefficients in an Allocation Problem
D) Values of Non-Atomic Games
  • 8. What is the title of the book Robert Aumann coauthored with L.S. Shapley in 1974?
A) Handbook of Game Theory
B) Collected Papers
C) The Logic of Backward Induction
D) Values of Non-Atomic Games
  • 9. Which of these works was coedited by Robert Aumann and Sergiu Hart?
A) The Coefficients in an Allocation Problem
B) Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications
C) Values of Non-Atomic Games
D) Repeated Games with Incomplete Information
  • 10. In which year was the first volume of the Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications published?
A) 1992
B) 1989
C) 1995
D) 2000
  • 11. What was Robert Aumann's 1956 publication titled?
A) Asphericity of alternating knots
B) Collected Papers
C) Acceptable Points in Games of Perfect Information
D) The Logic of Backward Induction
  • 12. Who coauthored the 2015 article 'The Logic of Backward Induction' with Robert Aumann?
A) S. Zamir
B) I. Arieli
C) M. Maschler
D) Y. Tauman
  • 13. In which academic field did Robert Aumann receive the EMET Prize in 2002?
A) Physics
B) Economics
C) Political Science
D) Mathematics
  • 14. What was the total monetary value of the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize shared by Aumann and Schelling?
A) US$1.3 million
B) US$1.0 million
C) US$500,000
D) US$2.0 million
  • 15. Which press published the 2000 'Collected Papers' by Robert Aumann?
A) MIT Press
B) Westview Press
C) Elsevier
D) Princeton University Press
  • 16. What is the title of Robert Aumann's Nobel lecture?
A) The Future of Israel
B) Game Theory and Strategy
C) War and Peace
D) Rationality and Conflict
  • 17. How does Aumann suggest war should be addressed?
A) It should be resolved through pacifism alone
B) It should be ignored
C) It should be scientifically studied
D) It should be accepted as inevitable
  • 18. According to Aumann, what does the study of repeated games emphasize?
A) The now over the later
B) Short-term gains
C) The later over the now
D) Emotional responses
  • 19. Which political group is Aumann a member of?
A) Peace Now
B) The Labor Party
C) Professors for a Strong Israel
D) Meretz
  • 20. What was Aumann's stance on the 2005 Gaza disengagement?
A) He opposed it
B) He refused to comment
C) He was neutral
D) He supported it
  • 21. Which game theory concept did Aumann use to argue against giving land to Arabs?
A) Nash Equilibrium
B) Stag Hunt
C) Prisoner's Dilemma
D) Blackmailer Paradox
  • 22. What was the reaction to Aumann receiving the Nobel Prize in the European press?
A) It was praised for his political views
B) It was criticized
C) It was ignored
D) It was widely celebrated
  • 23. Which religious group did Aumann mention as potentially being right about the Zionist movement?
A) Karaite Jews
B) Reform Jews
C) Conservative Jews
D) Satmar Jews
  • 24. What is the only way Aumann believes Zionism can survive?
A) If it gives up all disputed land
B) If it has a religious basis
C) If it forms an alliance with Europe
D) If it remains strictly secular
  • 25. In 2008, which political party did Aumann join?
A) Kadima
B) Likud
C) Ahi
D) Shas
  • 26. Who was Aumann's first wife?
A) Sarah Sacks
B) Esther Schlesinger
C) Esther Aumann
D) Batya Cohn
  • 27. Who was Aumann's second wife?
A) Batya Cohn
B) Oliver Sacks
C) Esther Schlesinger
D) Sarah Aumann
  • 28. Who was the famous relative of Robert Aumann mentioned in the text?
A) Effi Eitam
B) Shlomo Aumann
C) Oliver Sacks
D) Yitzhak Levy
  • 29. In what year was Robert Aumann born?
A) 1925
B) 1940
C) 1935
D) 1930
  • 30. Where was Robert Aumann born?
A) Frankfurt am Main, Germany
B) Jerusalem, Israel
C) Boston, USA
D) New York City, USA
  • 31. Who was Aumann's doctoral advisor?
A) David Schmeidler
B) Lloyd Shapley
C) Thomas Schelling
D) George Whitehead, Jr.
  • 32. What concept did Aumann define as more flexible than the classical Nash equilibrium?
A) Common knowledge
B) Asphericity
C) Correlated equilibrium
D) Bayesian rationality
  • 33. What theorem states that two Bayesian rationalists cannot agree to disagree?
A) Aumann's agreement theorem
B) Talmudic division theory
C) Aumann-Shapley value
D) Nash equilibrium theorem
  • 34. Which researcher collaborated with Aumann on the Aumann–Shapley value?
A) David Schmeidler
B) Thomas Schelling
C) Lloyd Shapley
D) George Whitehead, Jr.
  • 35. Aumann and which other researcher analyzed Talmudic dilemmas using game theory?
A) Whitehead
B) Schelling
C) Shapley
D) Maschler
  • 36. Which of the following is one of Aumann's Ph.D. students?
A) George Whitehead, Jr.
B) Thomas Schelling
C) Lloyd Shapley
D) Sergiu Hart
  • 37. How long before the Kristallnacht pogrom did Aumann flee Germany?
A) Two weeks
B) One month
C) Two days
D) One year
  • 38. Aumann is a founding member of the center for game theory at which university?
A) University of California, Berkeley
B) Hebrew University of Jerusalem
C) Stanford University
D) Stony Brook University
  • 39. What is the name of the son to whom Aumann dedicated his article on Talmudic dilemmas?
A) David
B) Abraham
C) Shlomo
D) Sergiu
  • 40. Which specific study did Aumann partially vouch for?
A) The Biblical Code Cipher.
B) The Great Rabbis Experiment.
C) The Sinai Statistical Analysis.
D) The Genesis Prediction Study.
  • 41. Where was the Great Rabbis Experiment originally published?
A) Nature.
B) The New York Times.
C) Statistical Science.
D) Science Magazine.
  • 42. What did Aumann sponsor for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?
A) The Witztum-Rips-Rosenberg paper.
B) A summary of his own personal research.
C) The Dror Bar-Natan findings.
D) A study by H.J. Gans.
  • 43. In what year was a committee formed to examine H.J. Gans's results on encoded text?
A) 1992.
B) 2000.
C) 1996.
D) 1988.
  • 44. Which individual's results regarding encoded biblical text did Aumann's committee investigate?
A) Eliyahu Rips.
B) Yoav Rosenberg.
C) Doron Witztum.
D) H.J. Gans.
  • 45. What was the result of the two tests performed by Aumann's committee regarding the Bible codes?
A) Both tests failed to confirm the code.
B) Both tests confirmed the existence of the code.
C) The committee could not reach a consensus.
D) One test succeeded and one test failed.
  • 46. Did the research supervised by Aumann establish the non-existence of the codes?
A) No.
B) Only partially.
C) Yes, definitively.
D) The results were inconclusive about the existence, but confirmed the non-existence.
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