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  • 1. In what year was Stephen Hawking born?
A) 1974
B) 1942
C) 1955
D) 1968
  • 2. Which disease did Stephen Hawking battle for most of his life?
A) Diabetes
B) ALS
C) Cancer
D) Heart disease
  • 3. Which university did Stephen Hawking attend for his Ph.D. studies?
A) Oxford University
B) University of Cambridge
C) Harvard University
D) Stanford 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) 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) Equalizer
C) VoxSynth
D) SpeechMaster
  • 6. Which fellowship did Stephen Hawking hold at the University of Cambridge?
A) Darwinian Professorship of Biology
B) Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics
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) Sophie Hawking
B) Lucy Hawking
C) Alice Hawking
D) Emily Hawking
  • 8. Where was Stephen Hawking born?
A) Manchester, England
B) Oxford, England
C) London, England
D) Cambridge, 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) Physics
B) Literature
C) Mathematics
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) The Universe in a Nutshell
C) There Is No God
D) The Grand Design
  • 13. What is the title of Stephen Hawking's autobiographical book published in 2013?
A) My Brief History
B) The Grand Design
C) Black Holes and Baby Universes
D) A Brief History of Time Revisited
  • 14. At what age was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with motor neurone disease?
A) 25
B) 30
C) 18
D) 21
  • 15. How did Stephen Hawking communicate after losing his speech?
A) Via written notes only
B) Using sign language
C) With a voice synthesizer controlled by eye movement
D) Through a speech-generating device using a single cheek muscle
  • 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) Pilot-wave theory
D) Many-worlds interpretation
  • 18. How long did 'A Brief History of Time' remain on the Sunday Times bestseller list?
A) 237 weeks
B) 200 weeks
C) 150 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) 1999
B) 2005
C) 2002
D) 2010
  • 20. How many years did Stephen Hawking live after his diagnosis with motor neurone disease?
A) More than 50 years
B) 20 years
C) 30 years
D) 40 years
  • 21. What did Stephen Hawking's paternal great-grandmother do to save the family?
A) Bought more farm land
B) Wrote a book
C) Started a medical practice
D) Opened a school in their home
  • 22. What was Frank Hawking's specialization?
A) Philosophy
B) Physics
C) Tropical diseases
D) Economics
  • 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 ate out every night
C) Each person often spent it silently reading a book.
D) They had elaborate dinner parties
  • 25. How did the Hawking family travel?
A) In a converted London taxicab.
B) By train
C) On foot
D) By horse-drawn carriage
  • 26. For how long did Stephen Hawking attend St Albans High School for Girls?
A) Two years
B) Six months
C) A few months
D) One year
  • 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 promising to pay for it himself
B) By showing how much he wanted it
C) By persuading him that he could assemble one from cheap parts
D) By getting permission from his school
  • 29. What nickname was Stephen Hawking known by at school?
A) Newton
B) Einstein
C) Galileo
D) Tesla
  • 30. At what age did Stephen Hawking begin his university education?
A) 18
B) 20
C) 19
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) An honors thesis
C) A second-class degree
D) A third-class degree
  • 33. Who was Stephen Hawking's doctoral supervisor at Cambridge?
A) Dennis William Sciama
B) Fred Hoyle
C) Jayant Narlikar
D) Robert Berman
  • 34. What disease was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with during his doctoral studies?
A) Multiple sclerosis
B) Parkinson's disease
C) Alzheimer's disease
D) Motor neurone 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) Dannie Heineman Prize
C) Eddington Medal
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) 1973
C) 1969
D) 1975
  • 37. What is the title of the book that contains lectures from the Starmus III Festival?
A) Beyond the Horizon
B) Black Holes and Baby Universes
C) A Brief History of Time
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: Voyager
B) Star Trek: Discovery
C) Star Trek: The Next Generation
D) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
  • 39. What was Jane Hawking's field of study for her PhD?
A) Physics
B) Theoretical astrophysics
C) Mathematics
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) Wish You Were Here
C) Keep Talking
D) Another Brick in the Wall
  • 41. Which festival in 2016 was dedicated to Stephen Hawking?
A) Science Gala 2016
B) Quantum Physics Symposium
C) Hawking Science Fest
D) Starmus III Festival
  • 42. Which U.S. president's policies did Hawking criticize for denying evidence of climate change?
A) George W. Bush
B) Donald Trump
C) Barack Obama
D) Bill Clinton
  • 43. Which political party did Stephen Hawking support during his lifetime?
A) Liberal Democrats
B) Green Party
C) Conservative Party
D) Labour Party
  • 44. When was the Higgs boson discovered, confirming Hawking's bet?
A) July 2012
B) December 2015
C) March 2010
D) June 2008
  • 45. Who did Stephen Hawking collaborate with to propose the Hartle–Hawking state?
A) Leonard Susskind
B) Brandon Carter
C) Kip Thorne
D) Jim Hartle
  • 46. According to Stephen Hawking, what is the real risk with AI?
A) Obsolescence
B) Inefficiency
C) Competence
D) Malice
  • 47. What healthcare system did Stephen Hawking believe was essential for his survival into his 70s?
A) Medicare
B) Universal Healthcare
C) Private health insurance
D) The NHS (National Health Service)
  • 48. Which institution did Stephen Hawking visit in 1973, influencing his work on quantum gravity?
A) Cambridge University
B) Moscow
C) University of Oxford
D) California Institute of Technology
  • 49. In 1997, who did Stephen Hawking concede a bet to regarding the black hole information paradox?
A) Gary Gibbons
B) Thomas Hertog
C) Kip Thorne
D) John Preskill
  • 50. What did Stephen Hawking say could answer philosophical problems?
A) Traditional philosophical methods.
B) Historical analysis and interpretation.
C) Religious teachings and doctrines.
D) Science, particularly new scientific theories.
  • 51. Which radio programme did Stephen Hawking appear on in 1992?
A) The Science Hour
B) Desert Island Discs
C) BBC Radio 4
D) StarTalk
  • 52. What did Stephen Hawking consider as a pivotal factor in steering humanity's fate?
A) Superintelligent artificial intelligence (AI)
B) : Space exploration
C) : Genetic engineering
D) : Renewable energy
  • 53. Which journal published Stephen Hawking's work on gravitational radiation from colliding black holes?
A) Physical Review Letters
B) Nature
C) Journal of High Energy Physics
D) Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • 54. In what year did Stephen Hawking retire as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics?
A) 2009
B) 2017
C) 2015
D) 2018
  • 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) Oxford University's humanist group.
B) A religious fellowship at Oxford University.
C) The scientific community opposing religion.
D) A group promoting the existence of God.
  • 57. Which documentary film about particle physics received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) Horizon: The Hawking Paradox
B) Particle Fever (2013)
C) Stephen Hawking's Universe
D) The Theory of Everything
  • 58. Who developed the 'Equalizer' computer program that helped Hawking communicate?
A) Don Page
B) Walter Woltosz
C) Elaine Mason
D) Bernard Carr
  • 59. Which musical work by Beethoven did Stephen Hawking choose as part of his Desert Island Discs selections?
A) String Quartet No. 15
B) Fifth Symphony
C) Symphony No. 9
D) Moonlight Sonata
  • 60. In what year did Stephen Hawking pose an open question on the Internet regarding the sustainability of humanity?
A) 1998
B) 2010
C) 2006
D) 2025
  • 61. Who offered Stephen Hawking a free flight into space?
A) Richard Branson
B) Jeff Bezos
C) Bill Gates
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) 1974
C) 2006
D) 1992
  • 64. Which award did Stephen Hawking decline in the late 1990s?
A) Presidential Medal of Freedom
B) Knighthood
C) Copley Medal
D) Nobel Prize
  • 65. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's second wife?
A) Jane Wilde
B) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
C) Elaine Mason
D) Lucy Hawking
  • 66. Which particle's existence did Stephen Hawking bet against being found?
A) The Higgs boson
B) Gravitons
C) Neutrinos
D) WIMPs
  • 67. Which children's book by Stephen Hawking was published in 2009?
A) George and the Unbreakable Code
B) George and the Blue Moon
C) George and the Big Bang
D) George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
  • 68. Who was Ghislaine Maxwell, mentioned in the context of an email involving Stephen Hawking?
A) A British child sex trafficker
B) A physicist
C) A musician
D) An astronaut
  • 69. According to Stephen Hawking, why should contact with aliens be avoided?
A) Aliens are inherently hostile.
B) Aliens might bring diseases.
C) Aliens might pillage Earth for resources.
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) Thomas Hertog
B) C J Hunter
C) Roger Penrose
D) J. B. Hartle
  • 71. What is the name of the mechanical clock unveiled by Stephen Hawking at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge?
A) Tempus Fugit
B) Horologium
C) Timekeeper
D) Chronophage
  • 72. In which year did Stephen Hawking receive an Honorary Doctorate from Imperial College London?
A) 2017
B) 2015
C) 2013
D) 2009
  • 73. Who was the first recipient of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) Physicist Jim Al-Khalili
B) Film Particle Fever
C) Brian May
D) Composer Hans Zimmer
  • 74. Which book by Stephen Hawking was co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow and discusses the concept of 'The Grand Design'?
A) God Created the Integers
B) The Grand Design
C) My Brief History
D) A Briefer History of Time
  • 75. In what year did Stephen Hawking publish his paper on 'Black holes in general relativity'?
A) 1983
B) 2005
C) 1974
D) 1972
  • 76. Which U.S. presidential candidate did Hawking record a video tribute for in 2000?
A) John McCain
B) George W. Bush
C) Al Gore
D) Bill Clinton
  • 77. Which sitcom featured a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking in 2013?
A) The Simpsons
B) South Park
C) Futurama
D) Family Guy
  • 78. 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
  • 79. What did Stephen Hawking believe could prevent human extinction in the event of a planet-wide disaster?
A) Creating genetically modified humans
B) Colonising additional planets
C) Building underground cities
D) Developing nuclear bunkers
  • 80. Which company operated the flight that took Stephen Hawking to experience weightlessness?
A) Virgin Galactic
B) Blue Origin
C) Zero-G Corp
D) SpaceX
  • 81. Who co-edited a book with Hawking on Euclidean quantum gravity?
A) Thomas Hertog
B) Gary Gibbons
C) John Preskill
D) Kip Thorne
  • 82. Which of these dangers did Stephen Hawking NOT mention as a risk to life on Earth?
A) Nuclear war
B) Global warming
C) Alien invasion
D) Genetically engineered virus
  • 83. Who lived with the Hawking family during Stephen's position at Caltech?
A) Bernard Carr
B) Don Page
C) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
D) Elaine Mason
  • 84. What theory did Stephen Hawking propose in his inaugural lecture as Lucasian Professor?
A) Hartle–Hawking state
B) Quantum gravity
C) N = 8 supergravity
D) Cosmological inflation
  • 85. 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
  • 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) Alien Discovery Mission
C) Cosmic Search Project
D) Breakthrough Initiatives
  • 88. What did Stephen Hawking propose about information in a black hole in 1981?
A) Information is converted into Hawking radiation.
B) Information is stored at the event horizon.
C) Information is irretrievably lost when a black hole evaporates.
D) Information can be retrieved after evaporation.
  • 89. What accent did the voice synthesizer originally use for Stephen Hawking?
A) British accent
B) Australian accent
C) American accent
D) Canadian accent
  • 90. Which award did Stephen Hawking receive at the 2016 Pride of Britain Awards?
A) Lifetime achievement award
B) Innovator of the Year
C) Science Communicator of the Year
D) Best Scientist Award
  • 91. In what decade did Stephen Hawking begin accepting the role model mantle for disabled people?
A) 2010s
B) 2000s
C) 1980s
D) 1990s
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