Richard Feynman - Quiz
Richard Feynman
  • 1. What field of study was Richard Feynman known for?
A) Physics
B) Psychology
C) Biology
D) History
  • 2. In what year was Richard Feynman born?
A) 1918
B) 1905
C) 1923
D) 1940
  • 3. Which prestigious award did Richard Feynman win in 1965?
A) Academy Award for Best Picture
B) Nobel Prize in Physics
C) Grammy Award for Best Album
D) Pulitzer Prize for Literature
  • 4. What was the name of the government panel Feynman served on to investigate the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster?
A) Feynman Committee
B) Space Shuttle Investigative Board
C) Challenger Task Force
D) Rogers Commission
  • 5. What was Richard Feynman's middle name?
A) Christopher
B) Phillips
C) Michael
D) Alexander
  • 6. Which term did Feynman coin to describe the idea that all possible histories contribute to the quantum amplitude of a particle moving from one point to another?
A) Sum over histories
B) Path integral formulation
C) Parallel universes
D) Quantum superposition
  • 7. What is the title of Feynman's famous lecture about the scientific method?
A) The Feynman Technique
B) Cargo Cult Science
C) Scientific Inquiry Masterclass
D) The Physics Paradigm
  • 8. Which programming language did Feynman learn in the 1980s to work on artificial intelligence projects?
A) Lisp
B) C++
C) Java
D) Python
  • 9. Which branch of the U.S. military did Feynman work for during World War II?
A) Marine Corps
B) U.S. Navy
C) Manhattan Project
D) U.S. Army
  • 10. Feynman was known for his skill in playing which musical instrument?
A) Bongo Drums
B) Violin
C) Guitar
D) Piano
  • 11. What is the name of the diagram technique Feynman introduced in quantum mechanics?
A) Feynman Diagrams
B) Wave Functions
C) Quantum Circuits
D) Particle Paths
  • 12. In what year did Richard Feynman pass away?
A) 1975
B) 1995
C) 2000
D) 1988
  • 13. In which year did Richard Feynman share the Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) 1965
B) 1972
C) 1988
D) 1959
  • 14. Who were the other recipients of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Feynman?
A) Enrico Fermi and Werner Heisenberg
B) Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr
C) Paul Dirac and Max Born
D) Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
  • 15. For what fundamental work were Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga awarded the Nobel Prize?
A) General relativity
B) Thermodynamics
C) Quantum electrodynamics (QED)
D) Classical mechanics
  • 16. Which university did Feynman attend after being rejected by Columbia University?
A) Harvard University
B) University of Chicago
C) Yale University
D) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  • 17. What fraternity did Feynman join at MIT?
A) Sigma Chi
B) Pi Lambda Phi
C) Delta Tau Delta
D) Phi Beta Kappa
  • 18. Which university awarded Feynman his PhD in 1942?
A) Yale University
B) Princeton University
C) Harvard University
D) MIT
  • 19. Who was Feynman's thesis advisor at Princeton?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Niels Bohr
C) Wolfgang Pauli
D) John Archibald Wheeler
  • 20. What principle did Feynman apply to quantum mechanics in his doctoral thesis?
A) The Uncertainty Principle
B) Einstein's Theory of Relativity
C) The Principle of Least Action
D) Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics
  • 21. Where did Feynman marry Arline Greenbaum?
A) Brooklyn, New York
B) Queens, New York
C) Staten Island
D) Manhattan, New York
  • 22. What illness was Arline Greenbaum suffering from when she married Feynman?
A) Tuberculosis
B) Polio
C) Malaria
D) Cancer
  • 23. How did Feynman and Arline's wedding ceremony proceed?
A) It was a large public event with many guests.
B) It took place in a church.
C) It was conducted over the phone.
D) It was attended by neither family nor friends.
  • 24. What notable project did Feynman assist with during World War II?
A) The development of the atomic bomb
B) The creation of penicillin
C) The design of jet engines
D) The invention of radar technology
  • 25. What was one of Feynman's contributions to the field of computing?
A) Creating the World Wide Web
B) Inventing the microprocessor
C) Developing the first computer virus
D) Pioneering quantum computing
  • 26. What concept in nanotechnology did Feynman introduce?
A) Quantum tunneling
B) Nano-sensors
C) Bottom-up approach
D) Top-down approach
  • 27. Where was Feynman a professor of theoretical physics?
A) California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
B) Princeton University
C) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
D) Harvard University
  • 28. What was Feynman's rank among physicists in a 1999 poll by Physics World?
A) Seventh-greatest physicist of all time
B) First-greatest physicist of all time
C) Fifteenth-greatest physicist of all time
D) Tenth-greatest physicist of all time
  • 29. What was the subject of one of Feynman's talks that contributed to nanotechnology?
A) "Quantum Mechanics Simplified"
B) "The Universe in a Nutshell"
C) "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
D) "The Future of Physics"
  • 30. What was Feynman's stance on his Jewish heritage later in life?
A) He remained a practicing Jew.
B) He described himself as an 'avowed atheist'.
C) He converted to Christianity.
D) He became deeply religious.
  • 31. What did Feynman create for his high school physics class?
A) A radio station
B) A weather balloon
C) A home burglar alarm system
D) A solar-powered car
  • 32. What was Feynman's IQ score in high school?
A) 125
B) 100
C) 130
D) 150
  • 33. Who recruited Feynman for the Manhattan Project?
A) Hans Bethe
B) Ernest O. Lawrence
C) Robert R. Wilson
D) Niels Bohr
  • 34. What device was Feynman and Paul Olum working to determine the practicality of?
A) Cyclotron
B) Linear accelerator
C) Calutron
D) Isotron
  • 35. Who recommended abandoning the isotron project?
A) Robert R. Wilson
B) Niels Bohr
C) Hans Bethe
D) Ernest O. Lawrence
  • 36. Who did Feynman work under at Los Alamos?
A) Ernest O. Lawrence
B) Hans Bethe
C) Niels Bohr
D) Robert Oppenheimer
  • 37. What was Feynman's contribution to safety at the uranium enrichment facilities?
A) Designed new laboratory equipment
B) Developed a new type of bomb
C) Devised safety procedures for material storage
D) Invented a new type of reactor
  • 38. Who confessed to spying for the Soviet Union?
A) Klaus Fuchs
B) Robert R. Wilson
C) Niels Bohr
D) Hans Bethe
  • 39. What mental health diagnosis did Army psychiatrists give Feynman during his induction physical?
A) Mental illness with a 4-F exemption
B) Temporary stress disorder
C) Perfect mental health
D) Physical disability
  • 40. Who was Feynman's father, who died in October 1946?
A) Unknown from the text (father's name not provided)
B) Samuel Feynman
C) Melville Feynman
D) Arthur Feynman
  • 41. On what grounds was Feynman's divorce from Mary Louise Bell finalized?
A) Irreconcilable differences
B) Desertion
C) Extreme cruelty
D) Adultery
  • 42. In what year did Richard Feynman deliver his famous lecture titled 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom'?
A) 1974
B) 1984
C) 1964
D) 1959
  • 43. What did Feynman's parton model attempt to explain?
A) Gravitational interactions
B) The strong interactions governing nucleon scattering.
C) Electromagnetic interactions
D) Weak force interactions
  • 44. In which film directed by Christopher Nolan is Feynman portrayed by Jack Quaid?
A) Oppenheimer
B) QED
C) The Big Bang Theory
D) Infinity
  • 45. What did the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory experiments show?
A) Photons have spin 2.
B) Nucleons contained point-like particles that scattered electrons.
C) Quarks were just a bookkeeping device for symmetry numbers.
D) Neutrons decay into protons and electrons.
  • 46. Where did Feynman and Mary Louise Bell get married?
A) Pasadena, California
B) Boise, Idaho
C) Neodesha, Kansas
D) Rio de Janeiro
  • 47. What medical procedure did Feynman decline that might have prolonged his life?
A) Chemotherapy
B) Radiation therapy
C) Surgery
D) Dialysis
  • 48. What medal did Feynman receive in 1972?
A) The Oersted Medal.
B) The National Medal of Science.
C) The Nobel Prize.
D) The Albert Einstein Award.
  • 49. Which publisher released the second edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics in 2005?
A) Princeton University Press
B) MIT Press
C) Addison Wesley
D) McGraw Hill
  • 50. Who invited Feynman to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)?
A) Bacher
B) Edward Teller
C) Enrico Fermi
D) John von Neumann
  • 51. Where did Feynman do much of his fundamental work for which he won the Nobel Prize?
A) University of Wisconsin–Madison
B) Cornell University
C) Los Alamos Laboratory
D) Telluride House
  • 52. In which year did Richard Feynman present the lecture 'What is Science?' at the National Science Teachers Association?
A) 1974
B) 1988
C) 1955
D) 1966
  • 53. What is the ISBN of 'No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman'?
A) 0-201-40955-0
B) 0-393-31393-X
C) 0-393-01921-7
D) 0-7382-0166-9
  • 54. Which actor portrayed Richard Feynman in the 1996 biopic 'Infinity'?
A) Oscar Isaac
B) William Hurt
C) Matthew Broderick
D) Alan Alda
  • 55. Which prestigious society elected Feynman as a Foreign Member?
A) The Royal Society.
B) The American Physical Society.
C) The Nobel Committee.
D) The National Academy of Sciences.
  • 56. What concept did Feynman credit to his friend and graduate student Albert Hibbs?
A) Swallowing the doctor
B) Quantum computing
C) Microtechnology
D) Nanoscale machines
  • 57. In which year did Richard Feynman publish 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom'?
A) 1974
B) 1956
C) 1988
D) 1960
  • 58. In which year did Richard Feynman publish his work on 'Effective classical partition functions'?
A) 1974
B) 1968
C) 1955
D) 1986
  • 59. In which year did Richard Feynman purchase a Dodge Tradesman Maxivan?
A) 1975
B) 1990
C) 1984
D) 1967
  • 60. What was the license plate ID of Feynman's van?
A) QUARKS
B) QANTUM
C) ELECTRON
D) PHOTON
  • 61. In which year was 'Six Easy Pieces' published?
A) 1994
B) 1985
C) 1996
D) 1997
  • 62. In which year did Richard Feynman publish his PhD Dissertation, 'The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics'?
A) 1968
B) 1956
C) 1986
D) 1942
  • 63. What did Gell-Mann threaten to do about Feynman's account in the book?
A) Ignore it
B) Write a rebuttal
C) Sue
D) Publicly criticize
  • 64. Which scientist was upset by Feynman's account in his autobiography regarding the weak interaction work?
A) Gell-Mann
B) Jenijoy La Belle
C) Robert Leighton
D) Ralph Leighton
  • 65. Where did Richard Feynman spend several weeks in July 1949?
A) Belo Horizonte
B) Rio de Janeiro
C) Salvador
D) São Paulo
  • 66. Which mathematical concept did Feynman try unsuccessfully to use for a relativistic theory of electrons?
A) Vectors
B) Quaternions
C) Matrices
D) Tensors
  • 67. In what year did Feynman learn to seduce women at a bar, as described in his book?
A) 1946
B) 1969
C) 1977
D) 1985
  • 68. What was the subject of the 2013 BBC dramatization starring William Hurt?
A) Feynman's Nobel Prize
B) The Challenger Disaster
C) Feynman's Love Letters
D) Feynman's Teaching Career
  • 69. In which year did the opera 'Feynman' premiere at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival?
A) 2005
B) 1996
C) 2016
D) 2013
  • 70. What year was the video recording 'Tiny Machines: The Feynman Talk on Nanotechnology' released?
A) 1985
B) 1984
C) 1983
D) 1986
  • 71. What year was Feynman's memoir 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' published?
A) 2000
B) 1979
C) 1990
D) 1985
  • 72. In what year did Feynman support Jenijoy La Belle in filing a suit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
A) 1974
B) 1977
C) 1985
D) 1979
  • 73. Who advised Feynman to accept the Albert Einstein Award despite his reservations?
A) Isidor Isaac Rabi.
B) Lewis Strauss.
C) William P. Rogers.
D) Richard Schwinger.
  • 74. In which year did Richard Feynman publish 'Mathematical formulation of the quantum theory of electromagnetic interaction'?
A) 1950
B) 1948
C) 1974
D) 1966
  • 75. What was Feynman's colleague Jenijoy La Belle hired as at Caltech in 1969?
A) a research assistant
B) the head of the English literature department
C) a lecturer
D) Caltech's first female professor
  • 76. Which organ was crushed by Feynman's tumor?
A) Liver
B) One kidney
C) Pancreas
D) Heart
  • 77. What did the EEOC rule about La Belle in addition to ruling against Caltech?
A) Caltech was required to hire more female professors
B) La Belle was entitled to immediate tenure
C) La Belle had been paid less than male colleagues
D) La Belle's case was dismissed
  • 78. Which fictional character from 'The Big Bang Theory' is a Feynman fan?
A) Sheldon Cooper
B) Howard Wolowitz
C) Penny
D) Leonard Hofstadter
  • 79. What name did Feynman give to the woman he interacted with at the bar in his book?
A) Jenijoy
B) Gell-Mann
C) Ralph
D) Ann
  • 80. Where did David Bohm emigrate after being arrested in the United States?
A) Argentina
B) Brazil
C) Mexico
D) Cuba
  • 81. Who bought Feynman's van in 2012?
A) Seamus Blackley
B) John Bardeen
C) Ralph Leighton
D) Gweneth
  • 82. Who commissioned a play about Feynman's life and also starred in it?
A) Matthew Broderick
B) Victor Stabin
C) Alan Alda
D) Jim Ottaviani
  • 83. In which year was Richard Feynman first diagnosed with liposarcoma?
A) 1986
B) 1987
C) 1978
D) 1988
  • 84. Who helped Feynman transcribe chapters for his autobiography in the 1980s?
A) Robert Leighton
B) Gell-Mann
C) Ralph Leighton
D) Jenijoy La Belle
  • 85. What is the ISBN for 'The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist'?
A) 0-201-40955-0
B) 0-393-02659-0
C) 0-7382-0108-1
D) 0-7382-0166-9
  • 86. Which company used photographs of Feynman in their 'Think Different' advertising campaign?
A) Microsoft
B) Apple Computer
C) IBM
D) Google
  • 87. What was Feynman's last word before he died?
A) "I am ready to go"
B) "This dying is boring"
C) "Goodbye"
D) "Thank you"
  • 88. What chapter in 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' describes Feynman learning to seduce women?
A) "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter"
B) "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out"
C) "Six Easy Pieces"
D) "You Just Ask Them?"
  • 89. In what year was Ralph Leighton's book about Feynman's attempt to visit Tuva published?
A) 1995
B) 2000
C) 1988
D) 1991
  • 90. Who designed the 'American Scientists' commemorative stamps?
A) Carl T. Herrman
B) Victor Stabin
C) Alan Alda
D) Peter Parnell
  • 91. In what year did Feynman serve on the California State Curriculum Commission?
A) 1974
B) 1964
C) 1984
D) 1959
  • 92. What was Feynman's offer to Gweneth Howarth when he met her in Switzerland?
A) $20 a week to be his live-in maid
B) An academic scholarship
C) A trip around the world
D) A job at Caltech
  • 93. When did Jenijoy La Belle finally receive tenure?
A) 1985
B) 1969
C) 1979
D) 1977
  • 94. What musical instrument did Feynman learn to play in Brazil?
A) Piano
B) Frigideira
C) Guitar
D) Violin
  • 95. What type of cancer was Feynman diagnosed with in 1986?
A) Waldenström macroglobulinemia
B) Liposarcoma
C) Leukemia
D) Melanoma
  • 96. Who convinced Oppenheimer that Feynman's formulation of quantum electrodynamics was easier to understand?
A) Paul Dirac
B) Niels Bohr
C) Julian Schwinger
D) Freeman Dyson
  • 97. Which publication featured Richard Feynman's paper on 'The λ-Transition in Liquid Helium'?
A) Science
B) Reviews of Modern Physics
C) Physical Review
D) Engineering and Science
  • 98. 'Lectures on Gravitation' was edited by whom?
A) Robin W. Allen
B) Brian Hatfield
C) Kip Thorne
D) Michael Gottlieb
  • 99. What did Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann develop a model for?
A) Quantum gravity
B) Strong interactions
C) Superconductivity
D) Weak decay
  • 100. How many doctoral students did Feynman serve as an advisor to?
A) 100
B) 50
C) 30
D) 10
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