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