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  • 1. In what year was Stephen Hawking born?
A) 1942
B) 1974
C) 1968
D) 1955
  • 2. Which disease did Stephen Hawking battle for most of his life?
A) ALS
B) Heart disease
C) Cancer
D) Diabetes
  • 3. Which university did Stephen Hawking attend for his Ph.D. studies?
A) Stanford University
B) Harvard University
C) University of Cambridge
D) Oxford University
  • 4. What is the title of Stephen Hawking's famous book published in 1988?
A) The Grand Design
B) A Brief History of Time
C) The Theory of Everything
D) Black Holes and Baby Universes
  • 5. What is the name of the computerized speech system that Stephen Hawking used to communicate?
A) SpeechMaster
B) TalkBot
C) VoxSynth
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) Knightbridge Professorship of Physics
D) Newtonian Chair of Astronomy
  • 7. What is the name of Stephen Hawking's daughter who is a novelist?
A) Emily Hawking
B) Lucy Hawking
C) Sophie Hawking
D) Alice Hawking
  • 8. Where was Stephen Hawking born?
A) Cambridge, England
B) Oxford, England
C) Manchester, England
D) London, England
  • 9. Which popular TV show did Stephen Hawking make multiple guest appearances on?
A) Breaking Bad
B) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
C) Stranger Things
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) History
B) Literature
C) Physics
D) Mathematics
  • 12. What was the title of Stephen Hawking's last book, published posthumously in 2018?
A) The Grand Design
B) There Is No God
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) The Grand Design
B) My Brief History
C) A Brief History of Time Revisited
D) Black Holes and Baby Universes
  • 14. At what age was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with motor neurone disease?
A) 30
B) 25
C) 18
D) 21
  • 15. How did Stephen Hawking communicate after losing his speech?
A) Via written notes only
B) Through a speech-generating device using a single cheek muscle
C) Using sign language
D) With a voice synthesizer controlled by eye movement
  • 16. Who did Stephen Hawking collaborate with on gravitational singularity theorems?
A) Roger Penrose
B) Albert Einstein
C) Niels Bohr
D) Richard Feynman
  • 17. Which interpretation of quantum mechanics did Stephen Hawking support?
A) Many-worlds interpretation
B) Transactional interpretation
C) Copenhagen interpretation
D) Pilot-wave theory
  • 18. How long did 'A Brief History of Time' remain on the Sunday Times bestseller list?
A) 200 weeks
B) 150 weeks
C) 237 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) 2005
D) 1999
  • 20. How many years did Stephen Hawking live after his diagnosis with motor neurone disease?
A) 20 years
B) 30 years
C) 40 years
D) More than 50 years
  • 21. What did Stephen Hawking's paternal great-grandmother do to save the family?
A) Opened a school in their home
B) Wrote a book
C) Bought more farm land
D) Started a medical practice
  • 22. What was Frank Hawking's specialization?
A) Tropical diseases
B) Physics
C) Economics
D) Philosophy
  • 23. Where did the Hawking family move when Frank became head of the division of parasitology?
A) Mallorca
B) St Albans, Hertfordshire
C) Oxford
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) They ate out every night
D) Each person often spent it silently reading a book.
  • 25. How did the Hawking family travel?
A) By horse-drawn carriage
B) By train
C) On foot
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) One year
C) Two years
D) Six months
  • 27. What did Stephen Hawking build in 1959?
A) A car
B) A television set
C) A bicycle
D) A record player from spare parts
  • 28. How did Stephen Hawking convince his father to let him build a record player?
A) By getting permission from his school
B) By promising to pay for it himself
C) By showing how much he wanted it
D) By persuading him that he could assemble one from cheap parts
  • 29. What nickname was Stephen Hawking known by at school?
A) Galileo
B) Newton
C) Einstein
D) Tesla
  • 30. At what age did Stephen Hawking begin his university education?
A) 19
B) 18
C) 20
D) 17
  • 31. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's physics tutor at Oxford?
A) Robert Berman
B) Dennis William Sciama
C) Fred Hoyle
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) Robert Berman
B) Fred Hoyle
C) Jayant Narlikar
D) Dennis William Sciama
  • 34. What disease was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with during his doctoral studies?
A) Alzheimer's disease
B) Motor neurone disease
C) Multiple sclerosis
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) Adams Prize
B) Eddington Medal
C) Dannie Heineman Prize
D) Hughes 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) A Brief History of Time
B) Beyond the Horizon
C) The Universe in a Nutshell
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: Deep Space Nine
B) Star Trek: Discovery
C) Star Trek: The Next Generation
D) Star Trek: Voyager
  • 39. What was Jane Hawking's field of study for her PhD?
A) Mathematics
B) Theoretical astrophysics
C) Physics
D) Medieval Spanish poetry
  • 40. What was the title of the Pink Floyd song that featured Stephen Hawking's synthesiser voice in 1993?
A) Comfortably Numb
B) Keep Talking
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) Donald Trump
B) George W. Bush
C) Bill Clinton
D) Barack Obama
  • 43. Which political party did Stephen Hawking support during his lifetime?
A) Labour Party
B) Liberal Democrats
C) Green Party
D) Conservative Party
  • 44. When was the Higgs boson discovered, confirming Hawking's bet?
A) December 2015
B) June 2008
C) July 2012
D) March 2010
  • 45. Who did Stephen Hawking collaborate with to propose the Hartle–Hawking state?
A) Jim Hartle
B) Brandon Carter
C) Kip Thorne
D) Leonard Susskind
  • 46. According to Stephen Hawking, what is the real risk with AI?
A) Malice
B) Inefficiency
C) Obsolescence
D) Competence
  • 47. What healthcare system did Stephen Hawking believe was essential for his survival into his 70s?
A) Medicare
B) Private health insurance
C) Universal Healthcare
D) The NHS (National Health Service)
  • 48. Which institution did Stephen Hawking visit in 1973, influencing his work on quantum gravity?
A) California Institute of Technology
B) Cambridge University
C) University of Oxford
D) Moscow
  • 49. In 1997, who did Stephen Hawking concede a bet to regarding the black hole information paradox?
A) Kip Thorne
B) Thomas Hertog
C) John Preskill
D) Gary Gibbons
  • 50. What did Stephen Hawking say could answer philosophical problems?
A) Religious teachings and doctrines.
B) Science, particularly new scientific theories.
C) Historical analysis and interpretation.
D) Traditional philosophical methods.
  • 51. Which radio programme did Stephen Hawking appear on in 1992?
A) BBC Radio 4
B) The Science Hour
C) StarTalk
D) Desert Island Discs
  • 52. What did Stephen Hawking consider as a pivotal factor in steering humanity's fate?
A) : Genetic engineering
B) : Renewable energy
C) Superintelligent artificial intelligence (AI)
D) : Space exploration
  • 53. Which journal published Stephen Hawking's work on gravitational radiation from colliding black holes?
A) Physical Review Letters
B) Nature
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) 2015
B) 2018
C) 2009
D) 2017
  • 55. When was the Hawking Building opened to the public as part of the Science and Innovation Park?
A) March 2019
B) June 2018
C) May 2021
D) October 2024
  • 56. Which organization was Stephen Hawking associated with during his university years?
A) The scientific community opposing religion.
B) A religious fellowship at Oxford University.
C) Oxford University's humanist group.
D) A group promoting the existence of God.
  • 57. Which documentary film about particle physics received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) The Theory of Everything
B) Stephen Hawking's Universe
C) Horizon: The Hawking Paradox
D) Particle Fever (2013)
  • 58. Who developed the 'Equalizer' computer program that helped Hawking communicate?
A) Don Page
B) Elaine Mason
C) Walter Woltosz
D) Bernard Carr
  • 59. Which musical work by Beethoven did Stephen Hawking choose as part of his Desert Island Discs selections?
A) Symphony No. 9
B) Fifth Symphony
C) Moonlight Sonata
D) String Quartet No. 15
  • 60. In what year did Stephen Hawking pose an open question on the Internet regarding the sustainability of humanity?
A) 2010
B) 2006
C) 1998
D) 2025
  • 61. Who offered Stephen Hawking a free flight into space?
A) Bill Gates
B) Jeff Bezos
C) Richard Branson
D) Elon Musk
  • 62. What is one of the main focuses of the Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship?
A) Literary achievements
B) Historical research
C) Political contributions
D) Impacts affecting younger generations
  • 63. In which year was Stephen Hawking elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)?
A) 1984
B) 2006
C) 1974
D) 1992
  • 64. Which award did Stephen Hawking decline in the late 1990s?
A) Knighthood
B) Copley Medal
C) Nobel Prize
D) Presidential Medal of Freedom
  • 65. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's second wife?
A) Jane Wilde
B) Lucy Hawking
C) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
D) Elaine Mason
  • 66. Which particle's existence did Stephen Hawking bet against being found?
A) WIMPs
B) The Higgs boson
C) Gravitons
D) Neutrinos
  • 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 Unbreakable Code
D) George and the Blue Moon
  • 68. Who was Ghislaine Maxwell, mentioned in the context of an email involving Stephen Hawking?
A) A physicist
B) An astronaut
C) A musician
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 are inherently hostile.
C) Contact could lead to cultural misunderstandings.
D) Aliens might bring diseases.
  • 70. Stephen Hawking and which collaborator worked on the gravitational Hamiltonian in the presence of non-orthogonal boundaries?
A) C J Hunter
B) J. B. Hartle
C) Thomas Hertog
D) Roger Penrose
  • 71. What is the name of the mechanical clock unveiled by Stephen Hawking at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge?
A) Horologium
B) Timekeeper
C) Chronophage
D) Tempus Fugit
  • 72. In which year did Stephen Hawking receive an Honorary Doctorate from Imperial College London?
A) 2015
B) 2013
C) 2009
D) 2017
  • 73. Who was the first recipient of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) Composer Hans Zimmer
B) Film Particle Fever
C) Physicist Jim Al-Khalili
D) Brian May
  • 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) A Briefer History of Time
D) The Grand Design
  • 75. In what year did Stephen Hawking publish his paper on 'Black holes in general relativity'?
A) 1983
B) 1972
C) 1974
D) 2005
  • 76. Which U.S. presidential candidate did Hawking record a video tribute for in 2000?
A) Al Gore
B) George W. Bush
C) Bill Clinton
D) John McCain
  • 77. Which sitcom featured a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking in 2013?
A) Family Guy
B) The Simpsons
C) South Park
D) Futurama
  • 78. In which month and year was a speech of Stephen Hawking's beamed into space?
A) June 2018
B) November 2018
C) March 2019
D) May 2021
  • 79. What did Stephen Hawking believe could prevent human extinction in the event of a planet-wide disaster?
A) Colonising additional planets
B) Creating genetically modified humans
C) Developing nuclear bunkers
D) Building underground cities
  • 80. Which company operated the flight that took Stephen Hawking to experience weightlessness?
A) SpaceX
B) Blue Origin
C) Zero-G Corp
D) Virgin Galactic
  • 81. Who co-edited a book with Hawking on Euclidean quantum gravity?
A) Thomas Hertog
B) Kip Thorne
C) John Preskill
D) Gary Gibbons
  • 82. Which of these dangers did Stephen Hawking NOT mention as a risk to life on Earth?
A) Global warming
B) Genetically engineered virus
C) Alien invasion
D) Nuclear war
  • 83. Who lived with the Hawking family during Stephen's position at Caltech?
A) Don Page
B) Elaine Mason
C) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
D) Bernard Carr
  • 84. What theory did Stephen Hawking propose in his inaugural lecture as Lucasian Professor?
A) N = 8 supergravity
B) Quantum gravity
C) Cosmological inflation
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 U.S. Mint
D) The European Central Bank
  • 86. On what date did Stephen Hawking fly aboard a specially-modified Boeing 727-200 jet to experience weightlessness?
A) 15 August 2012
B) 14 March 2018
C) 26 April 2007
D) 1 January 2006
  • 87. What initiative did Stephen Hawking help launch in 2015 to search for extraterrestrial life?
A) Extraterrestrial Life Initiative
B) Breakthrough Initiatives
C) Cosmic Search Project
D) Alien Discovery Mission
  • 88. What did Stephen Hawking propose about information in a black hole in 1981?
A) Information can be retrieved after evaporation.
B) Information is irretrievably lost when a black hole evaporates.
C) Information is stored at the event horizon.
D) Information is converted into Hawking radiation.
  • 89. What accent did the voice synthesizer originally use for Stephen Hawking?
A) American accent
B) Canadian accent
C) British accent
D) Australian accent
  • 90. Which award did Stephen Hawking receive at the 2016 Pride of Britain Awards?
A) Lifetime achievement award
B) Science Communicator of the Year
C) Best Scientist Award
D) Innovator of the Year
  • 91. In what decade did Stephen Hawking begin accepting the role model mantle for disabled people?
A) 2010s
B) 1990s
C) 1980s
D) 2000s
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