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  • 1. In what year was Stephen Hawking born?
A) 1974
B) 1968
C) 1942
D) 1955
  • 2. Which disease did Stephen Hawking battle for most of his life?
A) Heart disease
B) ALS
C) Cancer
D) Diabetes
  • 3. Which university did Stephen Hawking attend for his Ph.D. studies?
A) University of Cambridge
B) Stanford University
C) Harvard University
D) Oxford University
  • 4. What is the title of Stephen Hawking's famous book published in 1988?
A) The Theory of Everything
B) Black Holes and Baby Universes
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) TalkBot
B) VoxSynth
C) Equalizer
D) SpeechMaster
  • 6. Which fellowship did Stephen Hawking hold at the University of Cambridge?
A) Knightbridge Professorship of Physics
B) Newtonian Chair of Astronomy
C) Darwinian Professorship of Biology
D) Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics
  • 7. What is the name of Stephen Hawking's daughter who is a novelist?
A) Lucy Hawking
B) Alice Hawking
C) Sophie Hawking
D) Emily Hawking
  • 8. Where was Stephen Hawking born?
A) London, England
B) Manchester, England
C) Cambridge, England
D) Oxford, England
  • 9. Which popular TV show did Stephen Hawking make multiple guest appearances on?
A) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
B) Breaking Bad
C) The Big Bang Theory
D) Stranger Things
  • 10. Which scientific award did Stephen Hawking receive in 2012?
A) Presidential Medal of Freedom
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Oscar for Best Scientific Documentary
D) Nobel Prize in Physics
  • 11. During his undergraduate studies, what subject did Stephen Hawking excel in?
A) History
B) Mathematics
C) Literature
D) Physics
  • 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) 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) 18
B) 25
C) 21
D) 30
  • 15. How did Stephen Hawking communicate after losing his speech?
A) Using sign language
B) Via written notes only
C) Through a speech-generating device using a single cheek muscle
D) With a voice synthesizer controlled by eye movement
  • 16. Who did Stephen Hawking collaborate with on gravitational singularity theorems?
A) Roger Penrose
B) Niels Bohr
C) Albert Einstein
D) Richard Feynman
  • 17. Which interpretation of quantum mechanics did Stephen Hawking support?
A) Transactional interpretation
B) Pilot-wave theory
C) Many-worlds interpretation
D) Copenhagen interpretation
  • 18. How long did 'A Brief History of Time' remain on the Sunday Times bestseller list?
A) 200 weeks
B) 100 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) 2002
B) 2005
C) 1999
D) 2010
  • 20. How many years did Stephen Hawking live after his diagnosis with motor neurone disease?
A) 30 years
B) 40 years
C) 20 years
D) More than 50 years
  • 21. What did Stephen Hawking's paternal great-grandmother do to save the family?
A) Wrote a book
B) Opened a school in their home
C) Started a medical practice
D) Bought more farm land
  • 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) Mallorca
B) St Albans, Hertfordshire
C) Glasgow
D) Oxford
  • 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) On foot
B) By train
C) By horse-drawn carriage
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 television set
B) A car
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 showing how much he wanted it
C) By promising to pay for it himself
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) 20
C) 18
D) 19
  • 31. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's physics tutor at Oxford?
A) Robert Berman
B) Fred Hoyle
C) Dennis William Sciama
D) Jayant Narlikar
  • 32. What condition was necessary for Stephen Hawking's acceptance into graduate study at Cambridge?
A) A third-class degree
B) A second-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) Fred Hoyle
C) Robert Berman
D) Dennis William Sciama
  • 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) Hughes Medal
B) Adams Prize
C) Eddington Medal
D) Dannie Heineman Prize
  • 36. In which year did Stephen Hawking and James M. Bardeen develop the four laws of black hole mechanics?
A) 1975
B) 1981
C) 1973
D) 1969
  • 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) Black Holes and Baby Universes
D) The Universe in a Nutshell
  • 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: The Next Generation
C) Star Trek: Voyager
D) Star Trek: Discovery
  • 39. What was Jane Hawking's field of study for her PhD?
A) Theoretical astrophysics
B) Mathematics
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) Keep Talking
B) Another Brick in the Wall
C) Comfortably Numb
D) Wish You Were Here
  • 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) Barack Obama
B) George W. Bush
C) Donald Trump
D) Bill Clinton
  • 43. Which political party did Stephen Hawking support during his lifetime?
A) Conservative Party
B) Liberal Democrats
C) Green Party
D) Labour Party
  • 44. When was the Higgs boson discovered, confirming Hawking's bet?
A) June 2008
B) July 2012
C) March 2010
D) December 2015
  • 45. Who did Stephen Hawking collaborate with to propose the Hartle–Hawking state?
A) Leonard Susskind
B) Kip Thorne
C) Brandon Carter
D) Jim Hartle
  • 46. According to Stephen Hawking, what is the real risk with AI?
A) Obsolescence
B) Inefficiency
C) Malice
D) Competence
  • 47. What healthcare system did Stephen Hawking believe was essential for his survival into his 70s?
A) Medicare
B) The NHS (National Health Service)
C) Private health insurance
D) Universal Healthcare
  • 48. Which institution did Stephen Hawking visit in 1973, influencing his work on quantum gravity?
A) Moscow
B) California Institute of Technology
C) University of Oxford
D) Cambridge University
  • 49. In 1997, who did Stephen Hawking concede a bet to regarding the black hole information paradox?
A) Thomas Hertog
B) Gary Gibbons
C) Kip Thorne
D) John Preskill
  • 50. What did Stephen Hawking say could answer philosophical problems?
A) Religious teachings and doctrines.
B) Historical analysis and interpretation.
C) Traditional philosophical methods.
D) Science, particularly new scientific theories.
  • 51. Which radio programme did Stephen Hawking appear on in 1992?
A) StarTalk
B) Desert Island Discs
C) BBC Radio 4
D) The Science Hour
  • 52. What did Stephen Hawking consider as a pivotal factor in steering humanity's fate?
A) : Renewable energy
B) : Space exploration
C) : Genetic engineering
D) Superintelligent artificial intelligence (AI)
  • 53. Which journal published Stephen Hawking's work on gravitational radiation from colliding black holes?
A) Journal of High Energy Physics
B) Physical Review Letters
C) Nature
D) Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • 54. In what year did Stephen Hawking retire as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics?
A) 2017
B) 2018
C) 2015
D) 2009
  • 55. When was the Hawking Building opened to the public as part of the Science and Innovation Park?
A) March 2019
B) October 2024
C) May 2021
D) June 2018
  • 56. Which organization was Stephen Hawking associated with during his university years?
A) A religious fellowship at Oxford University.
B) A group promoting the existence of God.
C) The scientific community opposing religion.
D) Oxford University's humanist group.
  • 57. Which documentary film about particle physics received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) Horizon: The Hawking Paradox
B) The Theory of Everything
C) Particle Fever (2013)
D) Stephen Hawking's Universe
  • 58. Who developed the 'Equalizer' computer program that helped Hawking communicate?
A) Don Page
B) Elaine Mason
C) Bernard Carr
D) Walter Woltosz
  • 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) Symphony No. 9
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) 2006
B) 1998
C) 2025
D) 2010
  • 61. Who offered Stephen Hawking a free flight into space?
A) Bill Gates
B) Jeff Bezos
C) Elon Musk
D) Richard Branson
  • 62. What is one of the main focuses of the Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship?
A) Literary achievements
B) Impacts affecting younger generations
C) Political contributions
D) Historical research
  • 63. In which year was Stephen Hawking elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)?
A) 1974
B) 2006
C) 1992
D) 1984
  • 64. Which award did Stephen Hawking decline in the late 1990s?
A) Knighthood
B) Presidential Medal of Freedom
C) Nobel Prize
D) Copley Medal
  • 65. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's second wife?
A) Lucy Hawking
B) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
C) Elaine Mason
D) Jane Wilde
  • 66. Which particle's existence did Stephen Hawking bet against being found?
A) The Higgs boson
B) Neutrinos
C) WIMPs
D) Gravitons
  • 67. Which children's book by Stephen Hawking was published in 2009?
A) George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
B) George and the Blue Moon
C) George and the Big Bang
D) George and the Unbreakable Code
  • 68. Who was Ghislaine Maxwell, mentioned in the context of an email involving Stephen Hawking?
A) A British child sex trafficker
B) A musician
C) A physicist
D) An astronaut
  • 69. According to Stephen Hawking, why should contact with aliens be avoided?
A) Aliens might bring diseases.
B) Aliens might pillage Earth for resources.
C) Aliens are inherently hostile.
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) J. B. Hartle
B) C J Hunter
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) Chronophage
C) Timekeeper
D) Tempus Fugit
  • 72. In which year did Stephen Hawking receive an Honorary Doctorate from Imperial College London?
A) 2009
B) 2013
C) 2015
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) Brian May
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) The Grand Design
B) My Brief History
C) A Briefer History of Time
D) God Created the Integers
  • 75. In what year did Stephen Hawking publish his paper on 'Black holes in general relativity'?
A) 1974
B) 1972
C) 1983
D) 2005
  • 76. Which U.S. presidential candidate did Hawking record a video tribute for in 2000?
A) George W. Bush
B) John McCain
C) Al Gore
D) Bill Clinton
  • 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) November 2018
B) March 2019
C) June 2018
D) May 2021
  • 79. 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
  • 80. Which company operated the flight that took Stephen Hawking to experience weightlessness?
A) Blue Origin
B) Zero-G Corp
C) Virgin Galactic
D) SpaceX
  • 81. Who co-edited a book with Hawking on Euclidean quantum gravity?
A) Kip Thorne
B) Gary Gibbons
C) Thomas Hertog
D) John Preskill
  • 82. Which of these dangers did Stephen Hawking NOT mention as a risk to life on Earth?
A) Alien invasion
B) Nuclear war
C) Global warming
D) Genetically engineered virus
  • 83. Who lived with the Hawking family during Stephen's position at Caltech?
A) Don Page
B) Elaine Mason
C) Bernard Carr
D) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
  • 84. What theory did Stephen Hawking propose in his inaugural lecture as Lucasian Professor?
A) Hartle–Hawking state
B) N = 8 supergravity
C) Cosmological inflation
D) Quantum gravity
  • 85. Which organization issued a commemorative 50p coin in honor of Stephen Hawking?
A) The Royal Mint
B) The European Central Bank
C) The Bank of England
D) The U.S. Mint
  • 86. On what date did Stephen Hawking fly aboard a specially-modified Boeing 727-200 jet to experience weightlessness?
A) 26 April 2007
B) 15 August 2012
C) 14 March 2018
D) 1 January 2006
  • 87. What initiative did Stephen Hawking help launch in 2015 to search for extraterrestrial life?
A) Breakthrough Initiatives
B) Cosmic Search Project
C) Alien Discovery Mission
D) Extraterrestrial Life Initiative
  • 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) Australian accent
B) American accent
C) British accent
D) Canadian accent
  • 90. Which award did Stephen Hawking receive at the 2016 Pride of Britain Awards?
A) Lifetime achievement award
B) Best Scientist Award
C) Science Communicator of the Year
D) Innovator of the Year
  • 91. In what decade did Stephen Hawking begin accepting the role model mantle for disabled people?
A) 2000s
B) 1990s
C) 2010s
D) 1980s
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