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Robert Aumann - Quiz
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  • 1. In which year did Robert Aumann receive the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences?
A) 1998
B) 2002
C) 2005
D) 1994
  • 2. Whom did Robert Aumann share the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with?
A) Joseph Kruskal
B) Thomas Schelling
C) L.S. Shapley
D) Sergiu Hart
  • 3. Which prize did Robert Aumann receive from Northwestern University in 1998?
A) Erwin Plein Nemmers Prize in Economics
B) Harvey Prize
C) Israel Prize
D) EMET Prize
  • 4. In what year did Robert Aumann receive the Israel Prize for economics?
A) 1983
B) 2002
C) 1974
D) 1994
  • 5. What award did Robert Aumann receive from the city of Jerusalem in 2006?
A) Harvey Prize
B) Nobel Prize
C) Yakir Yerushalayim
D) Israel Prize
  • 6. In which year was Robert Aumann named a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences?
A) 1994
B) 1983
C) 2005
D) 1974
  • 7. Which publication did Robert Aumann coauthor with Joseph Kruskal in 1958?
A) Values of Non-Atomic Games
B) Lectures on Game Theory
C) The Coefficients in an Allocation Problem
D) Repeated Games with Incomplete Information
  • 8. What is the title of the book Robert Aumann coauthored with L.S. Shapley in 1974?
A) The Logic of Backward Induction
B) Handbook of Game Theory
C) Collected Papers
D) Values of Non-Atomic Games
  • 9. Which of these works was coedited by Robert Aumann and Sergiu Hart?
A) The Coefficients in an Allocation Problem
B) Repeated Games with Incomplete Information
C) Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications
D) Values of Non-Atomic Games
  • 10. In which year was the first volume of the Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications published?
A) 2000
B) 1989
C) 1995
D) 1992
  • 11. What was Robert Aumann's 1956 publication titled?
A) Acceptable Points in Games of Perfect Information
B) Asphericity of alternating knots
C) Collected Papers
D) The Logic of Backward Induction
  • 12. Who coauthored the 2015 article 'The Logic of Backward Induction' with Robert Aumann?
A) M. Maschler
B) Y. Tauman
C) S. Zamir
D) I. Arieli
  • 13. In which academic field did Robert Aumann receive the EMET Prize in 2002?
A) Economics
B) Political Science
C) Physics
D) Mathematics
  • 14. What was the total monetary value of the 2005 Nobel Memorial Prize shared by Aumann and Schelling?
A) US$1.3 million
B) US$1.0 million
C) US$500,000
D) US$2.0 million
  • 15. Which press published the 2000 'Collected Papers' by Robert Aumann?
A) Princeton University Press
B) MIT Press
C) Westview Press
D) Elsevier
  • 16. What is the title of Robert Aumann's Nobel lecture?
A) Game Theory and Strategy
B) War and Peace
C) Rationality and Conflict
D) The Future of Israel
  • 17. How does Aumann suggest war should be addressed?
A) It should be resolved through pacifism alone
B) It should be accepted as inevitable
C) It should be ignored
D) It should be scientifically studied
  • 18. According to Aumann, what does the study of repeated games emphasize?
A) Emotional responses
B) The now over the later
C) Short-term gains
D) The later over the now
  • 19. Which political group is Aumann a member of?
A) Meretz
B) Professors for a Strong Israel
C) Peace Now
D) The Labor Party
  • 20. What was Aumann's stance on the 2005 Gaza disengagement?
A) He was neutral
B) He supported it
C) He opposed it
D) He refused to comment
  • 21. Which game theory concept did Aumann use to argue against giving land to Arabs?
A) Nash Equilibrium
B) Blackmailer Paradox
C) Prisoner's Dilemma
D) Stag Hunt
  • 22. What was the reaction to Aumann receiving the Nobel Prize in the European press?
A) It was widely celebrated
B) It was criticized
C) It was praised for his political views
D) It was ignored
  • 23. Which religious group did Aumann mention as potentially being right about the Zionist movement?
A) Conservative Jews
B) Reform Jews
C) Satmar Jews
D) Karaite Jews
  • 24. What is the only way Aumann believes Zionism can survive?
A) If it remains strictly secular
B) If it gives up all disputed land
C) If it forms an alliance with Europe
D) If it has a religious basis
  • 25. In 2008, which political party did Aumann join?
A) Likud
B) Shas
C) Ahi
D) Kadima
  • 26. Who was Aumann's first wife?
A) Esther Schlesinger
B) Esther Aumann
C) Batya Cohn
D) Sarah Sacks
  • 27. Who was Aumann's second wife?
A) Batya Cohn
B) Esther Schlesinger
C) Oliver Sacks
D) Sarah Aumann
  • 28. Who was the famous relative of Robert Aumann mentioned in the text?
A) Yitzhak Levy
B) Shlomo Aumann
C) Oliver Sacks
D) Effi Eitam
  • 29. In what year was Robert Aumann born?
A) 1935
B) 1940
C) 1925
D) 1930
  • 30. Where was Robert Aumann born?
A) Frankfurt am Main, Germany
B) Boston, USA
C) New York City, USA
D) Jerusalem, Israel
  • 31. Who was Aumann's doctoral advisor?
A) David Schmeidler
B) Lloyd Shapley
C) Thomas Schelling
D) George Whitehead, Jr.
  • 32. What concept did Aumann define as more flexible than the classical Nash equilibrium?
A) Bayesian rationality
B) Correlated equilibrium
C) Asphericity
D) Common knowledge
  • 33. What theorem states that two Bayesian rationalists cannot agree to disagree?
A) Talmudic division theory
B) Aumann-Shapley value
C) Nash equilibrium theorem
D) Aumann's agreement theorem
  • 34. Which researcher collaborated with Aumann on the Aumann–Shapley value?
A) George Whitehead, Jr.
B) Lloyd Shapley
C) David Schmeidler
D) Thomas Schelling
  • 35. Aumann and which other researcher analyzed Talmudic dilemmas using game theory?
A) Schelling
B) Whitehead
C) Maschler
D) Shapley
  • 36. Which of the following is one of Aumann's Ph.D. students?
A) Lloyd Shapley
B) George Whitehead, Jr.
C) Thomas Schelling
D) Sergiu Hart
  • 37. How long before the Kristallnacht pogrom did Aumann flee Germany?
A) One year
B) Two days
C) Two weeks
D) One month
  • 38. Aumann is a founding member of the center for game theory at which university?
A) University of California, Berkeley
B) Hebrew University of Jerusalem
C) Stony Brook University
D) Stanford University
  • 39. What is the name of the son to whom Aumann dedicated his article on Talmudic dilemmas?
A) Sergiu
B) David
C) Shlomo
D) Abraham
  • 40. Which specific study did Aumann partially vouch for?
A) The Biblical Code Cipher.
B) The Sinai Statistical Analysis.
C) The Genesis Prediction Study.
D) The Great Rabbis Experiment.
  • 41. Where was the Great Rabbis Experiment originally published?
A) Science Magazine.
B) Nature.
C) The New York Times.
D) Statistical Science.
  • 42. What did Aumann sponsor for publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences?
A) The Witztum-Rips-Rosenberg paper.
B) The Dror Bar-Natan findings.
C) A summary of his own personal research.
D) A study by H.J. Gans.
  • 43. In what year was a committee formed to examine H.J. Gans's results on encoded text?
A) 1992.
B) 1996.
C) 1988.
D) 2000.
  • 44. Which individual's results regarding encoded biblical text did Aumann's committee investigate?
A) H.J. Gans.
B) Yoav Rosenberg.
C) Eliyahu Rips.
D) Doron Witztum.
  • 45. What was the result of the two tests performed by Aumann's committee regarding the Bible codes?
A) Both tests confirmed the existence of the code.
B) Both tests failed to confirm the code.
C) One test succeeded and one test failed.
D) The committee could not reach a consensus.
  • 46. Did the research supervised by Aumann establish the non-existence of the codes?
A) The results were inconclusive about the existence, but confirmed the non-existence.
B) Yes, definitively.
C) Only partially.
D) No.
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