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  • 1. In what year was Stephen Hawking born?
A) 1968
B) 1974
C) 1955
D) 1942
  • 2. Which disease did Stephen Hawking battle for most of his life?
A) Heart disease
B) ALS
C) Diabetes
D) Cancer
  • 3. Which university did Stephen Hawking attend for his Ph.D. studies?
A) Oxford University
B) Harvard University
C) Stanford University
D) University of Cambridge
  • 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) TalkBot
B) VoxSynth
C) SpeechMaster
D) Equalizer
  • 6. Which fellowship did Stephen Hawking hold at the University of Cambridge?
A) Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics
B) Darwinian Professorship of Biology
C) Newtonian Chair of Astronomy
D) Knightbridge Professorship of Physics
  • 7. What is the name of Stephen Hawking's daughter who is a novelist?
A) Lucy Hawking
B) Sophie Hawking
C) Emily Hawking
D) Alice Hawking
  • 8. Where was Stephen Hawking born?
A) London, England
B) Oxford, England
C) Manchester, England
D) Cambridge, England
  • 9. Which popular TV show did Stephen Hawking make multiple guest appearances on?
A) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
B) Stranger Things
C) The Big Bang Theory
D) Breaking Bad
  • 10. Which scientific award did Stephen Hawking receive in 2012?
A) Nobel Prize in Physics
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Oscar for Best Scientific Documentary
D) Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • 11. During his undergraduate studies, what subject did Stephen Hawking excel in?
A) Mathematics
B) Literature
C) Physics
D) History
  • 12. What was the title of Stephen Hawking's last book, published posthumously in 2018?
A) Brief Answers to the Big Questions
B) There Is No God
C) The Universe in a Nutshell
D) The Grand Design
  • 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) Black Holes and Baby Universes
D) The Grand Design
  • 14. At what age was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with motor neurone disease?
A) 21
B) 18
C) 25
D) 30
  • 15. How did Stephen Hawking communicate after losing his speech?
A) Via written notes only
B) With a voice synthesizer controlled by eye movement
C) Through a speech-generating device using a single cheek muscle
D) Using sign language
  • 16. Who did Stephen Hawking collaborate with on gravitational singularity theorems?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Richard Feynman
C) Niels Bohr
D) Roger Penrose
  • 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) 100 weeks
B) 150 weeks
C) 200 weeks
D) 237 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) 20 years
C) More than 50 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) Economics
B) Philosophy
C) Physics
D) Tropical diseases
  • 23. Where did the Hawking family move when Frank became head of the division of parasitology?
A) St Albans, Hertfordshire
B) Mallorca
C) Oxford
D) Glasgow
  • 24. What was unique about the Hawking family's meals?
A) Each person often spent it silently reading a book.
B) They only ate vegetarian food
C) They had elaborate dinner parties
D) They ate out every night
  • 25. How did the Hawking family travel?
A) By train
B) On foot
C) In a converted London taxicab.
D) By horse-drawn carriage
  • 26. For how long did Stephen Hawking attend St Albans High School for Girls?
A) Two years
B) One year
C) Six months
D) A few months
  • 27. What did Stephen Hawking build in 1959?
A) A bicycle
B) A car
C) A record player from spare parts
D) A television set
  • 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 promising to pay for it himself
C) By getting permission from his school
D) By persuading him that he could assemble one from cheap parts
  • 29. What nickname was Stephen Hawking known by at school?
A) Newton
B) Galileo
C) Einstein
D) Tesla
  • 30. At what age did Stephen Hawking begin his university education?
A) 17
B) 18
C) 20
D) 19
  • 31. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's physics tutor at Oxford?
A) Dennis William Sciama
B) Jayant Narlikar
C) Fred Hoyle
D) Robert Berman
  • 32. What condition was necessary for Stephen Hawking's acceptance into graduate study at Cambridge?
A) An honors thesis
B) A third-class degree
C) A first-class degree
D) A second-class degree
  • 33. Who was Stephen Hawking's doctoral supervisor at Cambridge?
A) Dennis William Sciama
B) Jayant Narlikar
C) Robert Berman
D) Fred Hoyle
  • 34. What disease was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with during his doctoral studies?
A) Alzheimer's disease
B) Motor neurone disease
C) Parkinson's 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) Hughes Medal
B) Eddington Medal
C) Dannie Heineman Prize
D) Adams Prize
  • 36. In which year did Stephen Hawking and James M. Bardeen develop the four laws of black hole mechanics?
A) 1969
B) 1981
C) 1975
D) 1973
  • 37. What theory did Stephen Hawking propose in his inaugural lecture as Lucasian Professor?
A) Quantum gravity
B) Hartle–Hawking state
C) N = 8 supergravity
D) Cosmological inflation
  • 38. Who did Stephen Hawking collaborate with to propose the Hartle–Hawking state?
A) Kip Thorne
B) Brandon Carter
C) Jim Hartle
D) Leonard Susskind
  • 39. Which institution did Stephen Hawking visit in 1973, influencing his work on quantum gravity?
A) Cambridge University
B) California Institute of Technology
C) University of Oxford
D) Moscow
  • 40. What did Stephen Hawking propose about information in a black hole in 1981?
A) Information is irretrievably lost when a black hole evaporates.
B) Information is stored at the event horizon.
C) Information can be retrieved after evaporation.
D) Information is converted into Hawking radiation.
  • 41. Who co-edited a book with Hawking on Euclidean quantum gravity?
A) John Preskill
B) Kip Thorne
C) Thomas Hertog
D) Gary Gibbons
  • 42. In 1997, who did Stephen Hawking concede a bet to regarding the black hole information paradox?
A) John Preskill
B) Gary Gibbons
C) Thomas Hertog
D) Kip Thorne
  • 43. Which particle's existence did Stephen Hawking bet against being found?
A) Neutrinos
B) The Higgs boson
C) Gravitons
D) WIMPs
  • 44. When was the Higgs boson discovered, confirming Hawking's bet?
A) June 2008
B) July 2012
C) December 2015
D) March 2010
  • 45. In what year did Stephen Hawking retire as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics?
A) 2015
B) 2018
C) 2017
D) 2009
  • 46. What initiative did Stephen Hawking help launch in 2015 to search for extraterrestrial life?
A) Breakthrough Initiatives
B) Alien Discovery Mission
C) Extraterrestrial Life Initiative
D) Cosmic Search Project
  • 47. What did Stephen Hawking say could answer philosophical problems?
A) Historical analysis and interpretation.
B) Traditional philosophical methods.
C) Religious teachings and doctrines.
D) Science, particularly new scientific theories.
  • 48. In what year did Stephen Hawking pose an open question on the Internet regarding the sustainability of humanity?
A) 2006
B) 2010
C) 2025
D) 1998
  • 49. Which of these dangers did Stephen Hawking NOT mention as a risk to life on Earth?
A) Genetically engineered virus
B) Nuclear war
C) Alien invasion
D) Global warming
  • 50. What did Stephen Hawking believe could prevent human extinction in the event of a planet-wide disaster?
A) Building underground cities
B) Colonising additional planets
C) Creating genetically modified humans
D) Developing nuclear bunkers
  • 51. According to Stephen Hawking, why should contact with aliens be avoided?
A) Contact could lead to cultural misunderstandings.
B) Aliens might pillage Earth for resources.
C) Aliens might bring diseases.
D) Aliens are inherently hostile.
  • 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. According to Stephen Hawking, what is the real risk with AI?
A) Inefficiency
B) Malice
C) Competence
D) Obsolescence
  • 54. Which organization was Stephen Hawking associated with during his university years?
A) The scientific community opposing religion.
B) A group promoting the existence of God.
C) Oxford University's humanist group.
D) A religious fellowship at Oxford University.
  • 55. Which political party did Stephen Hawking support during his lifetime?
A) Conservative Party
B) Labour Party
C) Green Party
D) Liberal Democrats
  • 56. Which U.S. presidential candidate did Hawking record a video tribute for in 2000?
A) George W. Bush
B) Al Gore
C) Bill Clinton
D) John McCain
  • 57. What healthcare system did Stephen Hawking believe was essential for his survival into his 70s?
A) Private health insurance
B) The NHS (National Health Service)
C) Medicare
D) Universal Healthcare
  • 58. Which U.S. president's policies did Hawking criticize for denying evidence of climate change?
A) Barack Obama
B) George W. Bush
C) Donald Trump
D) Bill Clinton
  • 59. What was Jane Hawking's field of study for her PhD?
A) Theoretical astrophysics
B) Mathematics
C) Physics
D) Medieval Spanish poetry
  • 60. Who lived with the Hawking family during Stephen's position at Caltech?
A) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
B) Bernard Carr
C) Elaine Mason
D) Don Page
  • 61. Who developed the 'Equalizer' computer program that helped Hawking communicate?
A) Walter Woltosz
B) Don Page
C) Bernard Carr
D) Elaine Mason
  • 62. What accent did the voice synthesizer originally use for Stephen Hawking?
A) Canadian accent
B) British accent
C) Australian accent
D) American accent
  • 63. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's second wife?
A) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
B) Jane Wilde
C) Elaine Mason
D) Lucy Hawking
  • 64. In what decade did Stephen Hawking begin accepting the role model mantle for disabled people?
A) 2000s
B) 1980s
C) 1990s
D) 2010s
  • 65. Who offered Stephen Hawking a free flight into space?
A) Jeff Bezos
B) Richard Branson
C) Elon Musk
D) Bill Gates
  • 66. On what date did Stephen Hawking fly aboard a specially-modified Boeing 727-200 jet to experience weightlessness?
A) 26 April 2007
B) 14 March 2018
C) 15 August 2012
D) 1 January 2006
  • 67. Which company operated the flight that took Stephen Hawking to experience weightlessness?
A) SpaceX
B) Virgin Galactic
C) Blue Origin
D) Zero-G Corp
  • 68. Who was Ghislaine Maxwell, mentioned in the context of an email involving Stephen Hawking?
A) A physicist
B) A musician
C) A British child sex trafficker
D) An astronaut
  • 69. In which month and year was a speech of Stephen Hawking's beamed into space?
A) November 2018
B) March 2019
C) May 2021
D) June 2018
  • 70. Which organization issued a commemorative 50p coin in honor of Stephen Hawking?
A) The Bank of England
B) The U.S. Mint
C) The European Central Bank
D) The Royal Mint
  • 71. When was the Hawking Building opened to the public as part of the Science and Innovation Park?
A) June 2018
B) March 2019
C) October 2024
D) May 2021
  • 72. Which radio programme did Stephen Hawking appear on in 1992?
A) The Science Hour
B) StarTalk
C) Desert Island Discs
D) BBC Radio 4
  • 73. What was the title of the Pink Floyd song that featured Stephen Hawking's synthesiser voice in 1993?
A) Comfortably Numb
B) Another Brick in the Wall
C) Wish You Were Here
D) Keep Talking
  • 74. 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
  • 75. In which year was Stephen Hawking elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)?
A) 1992
B) 1974
C) 2006
D) 1984
  • 76. Which musical work by Beethoven did Stephen Hawking choose as part of his Desert Island Discs selections?
A) String Quartet No. 15
B) Symphony No. 9
C) Moonlight Sonata
D) Fifth Symphony
  • 77. Which award did Stephen Hawking decline in the late 1990s?
A) Presidential Medal of Freedom
B) Copley Medal
C) Nobel Prize
D) Knighthood
  • 78. What is the name of the mechanical clock unveiled by Stephen Hawking at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge?
A) Timekeeper
B) Horologium
C) Tempus Fugit
D) Chronophage
  • 79. In which year did Stephen Hawking receive an Honorary Doctorate from Imperial College London?
A) 2009
B) 2015
C) 2017
D) 2013
  • 80. Which award did Stephen Hawking receive at the 2016 Pride of Britain Awards?
A) Innovator of the Year
B) Best Scientist Award
C) Lifetime achievement award
D) Science Communicator of the Year
  • 81. Which sitcom featured a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking in 2013?
A) Futurama
B) Family Guy
C) South Park
D) The Simpsons
  • 82. What is one of the main focuses of the Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship?
A) Impacts affecting younger generations
B) Political contributions
C) Historical research
D) Literary achievements
  • 83. Who was the first recipient of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) Film Particle Fever
B) Physicist Jim Al-Khalili
C) Composer Hans Zimmer
D) Brian May
  • 84. Which festival in 2016 was dedicated to Stephen Hawking?
A) Starmus III Festival
B) Hawking Science Fest
C) Science Gala 2016
D) Quantum Physics Symposium
  • 85. Which documentary film about particle physics received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) Stephen Hawking's Universe
B) Horizon: The Hawking Paradox
C) The Theory of Everything
D) Particle Fever (2013)
  • 86. What is the title of the book that contains lectures from the Starmus III Festival?
A) A Brief History of Time
B) The Universe in a Nutshell
C) Beyond the Horizon
D) Black Holes and Baby Universes
  • 87. 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
  • 88. Which children's book by Stephen Hawking was published in 2009?
A) George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
B) George and the Big Bang
C) George and the Unbreakable Code
D) George and the Blue Moon
  • 89. 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
  • 90. In what year did Stephen Hawking publish his paper on 'Black holes in general relativity'?
A) 1983
B) 1972
C) 2005
D) 1974
  • 91. Stephen Hawking and which collaborator worked on the gravitational Hamiltonian in the presence of non-orthogonal boundaries?
A) J. B. Hartle
B) Thomas Hertog
C) Roger Penrose
D) C J Hunter
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