ThatQuiz Test Library Take this test now
Richard Feynman
Contributed by: Gibson
  • 1. What field of study was Richard Feynman known for?
A) Physics
B) Biology
C) Psychology
D) History
  • 2. In what year was Richard Feynman born?
A) 1918
B) 1905
C) 1940
D) 1923
  • 3. Which prestigious award did Richard Feynman win in 1965?
A) Grammy Award for Best Album
B) Pulitzer Prize for Literature
C) Nobel Prize in Physics
D) Academy Award for Best Picture
  • 4. What was the name of the government panel Feynman served on to investigate the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster?
A) Space Shuttle Investigative Board
B) Feynman Committee
C) Rogers Commission
D) Challenger Task Force
  • 5. What was Richard Feynman's middle name?
A) Michael
B) Alexander
C) Christopher
D) Phillips
  • 6. Which term did Feynman coin to describe the idea that all possible histories contribute to the quantum amplitude of a particle moving from one point to another?
A) Sum over histories
B) Path integral formulation
C) Parallel universes
D) Quantum superposition
  • 7. What is the title of Feynman's famous lecture about the scientific method?
A) Cargo Cult Science
B) The Physics Paradigm
C) The Feynman Technique
D) Scientific Inquiry Masterclass
  • 8. Which programming language did Feynman learn in the 1980s to work on artificial intelligence projects?
A) Lisp
B) Python
C) Java
D) C++
  • 9. Which branch of the U.S. military did Feynman work for during World War II?
A) U.S. Navy
B) Manhattan Project
C) Marine Corps
D) U.S. Army
  • 10. Feynman was known for his skill in playing which musical instrument?
A) Violin
B) Bongo Drums
C) Piano
D) Guitar
  • 11. What is the name of the diagram technique Feynman introduced in quantum mechanics?
A) Quantum Circuits
B) Particle Paths
C) Feynman Diagrams
D) Wave Functions
  • 12. In what year did Richard Feynman pass away?
A) 2000
B) 1975
C) 1988
D) 1995
  • 13. In which year did Richard Feynman share the Nobel Prize in Physics?
A) 1988
B) 1959
C) 1965
D) 1972
  • 14. Who were the other recipients of the 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Feynman?
A) Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichirō Tomonaga
B) Enrico Fermi and Werner Heisenberg
C) Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr
D) Paul Dirac and Max Born
  • 15. For what fundamental work were Feynman, Schwinger, and Tomonaga awarded the Nobel Prize?
A) Thermodynamics
B) General relativity
C) Classical mechanics
D) Quantum electrodynamics (QED)
  • 16. Which university did Feynman attend after being rejected by Columbia University?
A) University of Chicago
B) Yale University
C) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
D) Harvard University
  • 17. What fraternity did Feynman join at MIT?
A) Sigma Chi
B) Pi Lambda Phi
C) Phi Beta Kappa
D) Delta Tau Delta
  • 18. Which university awarded Feynman his PhD in 1942?
A) Yale University
B) Princeton University
C) Harvard University
D) MIT
  • 19. Who was Feynman's thesis advisor at Princeton?
A) Wolfgang Pauli
B) Niels Bohr
C) John Archibald Wheeler
D) Albert Einstein
  • 20. What principle did Feynman apply to quantum mechanics in his doctoral thesis?
A) Einstein's Theory of Relativity
B) Heisenberg's Matrix Mechanics
C) The Uncertainty Principle
D) The Principle of Least Action
  • 21. Where did Feynman marry Arline Greenbaum?
A) Manhattan, New York
B) Brooklyn, New York
C) Staten Island
D) Queens, New York
  • 22. What illness was Arline Greenbaum suffering from when she married Feynman?
A) Tuberculosis
B) Polio
C) Cancer
D) Malaria
  • 23. How did Feynman and Arline's wedding ceremony proceed?
A) It was a large public event with many guests.
B) It took place in a church.
C) It was conducted over the phone.
D) It was attended by neither family nor friends.
  • 24. What notable project did Feynman assist with during World War II?
A) The creation of penicillin
B) The development of the atomic bomb
C) The invention of radar technology
D) The design of jet engines
  • 25. What was one of Feynman's contributions to the field of computing?
A) Pioneering quantum computing
B) Developing the first computer virus
C) Creating the World Wide Web
D) Inventing the microprocessor
  • 26. What concept in nanotechnology did Feynman introduce?
A) Bottom-up approach
B) Nano-sensors
C) Top-down approach
D) Quantum tunneling
  • 27. Where was Feynman a professor of theoretical physics?
A) California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
B) Princeton University
C) Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
D) Harvard University
  • 28. What was Feynman's rank among physicists in a 1999 poll by Physics World?
A) Tenth-greatest physicist of all time
B) First-greatest physicist of all time
C) Fifteenth-greatest physicist of all time
D) Seventh-greatest physicist of all time
  • 29. What was the subject of one of Feynman's talks that contributed to nanotechnology?
A) "The Universe in a Nutshell"
B) "The Future of Physics"
C) "Quantum Mechanics Simplified"
D) "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom"
  • 30. What was Feynman's stance on his Jewish heritage later in life?
A) He described himself as an 'avowed atheist'.
B) He converted to Christianity.
C) He became deeply religious.
D) He remained a practicing Jew.
  • 31. What did Feynman create for his high school physics class?
A) A weather balloon
B) A home burglar alarm system
C) A radio station
D) A solar-powered car
  • 32. What was Feynman's IQ score in high school?
A) 100
B) 150
C) 125
D) 130
  • 33. Who recruited Feynman for the Manhattan Project?
A) Robert R. Wilson
B) Hans Bethe
C) Ernest O. Lawrence
D) Niels Bohr
  • 34. What device was Feynman and Paul Olum working to determine the practicality of?
A) Calutron
B) Cyclotron
C) Linear accelerator
D) Isotron
  • 35. Who recommended abandoning the isotron project?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Ernest O. Lawrence
C) Robert R. Wilson
D) Hans Bethe
  • 36. Who did Feynman work under at Los Alamos?
A) Ernest O. Lawrence
B) Hans Bethe
C) Robert Oppenheimer
D) Niels Bohr
  • 37. What was Feynman's contribution to safety at the uranium enrichment facilities?
A) Developed a new type of bomb
B) Devised safety procedures for material storage
C) Invented a new type of reactor
D) Designed new laboratory equipment
  • 38. Who confessed to spying for the Soviet Union?
A) Hans Bethe
B) Klaus Fuchs
C) Niels Bohr
D) Robert R. Wilson
  • 39. What mental health diagnosis did Army psychiatrists give Feynman during his induction physical?
A) Temporary stress disorder
B) Physical disability
C) Perfect mental health
D) Mental illness with a 4-F exemption
  • 40. Who was Feynman's father, who died in October 1946?
A) Samuel Feynman
B) Unknown from the text (father's name not provided)
C) Melville Feynman
D) Arthur Feynman
  • 41. Which mathematical concept did Feynman try unsuccessfully to use for a relativistic theory of electrons?
A) Tensors
B) Matrices
C) Vectors
D) Quaternions
  • 42. Who convinced Oppenheimer that Feynman's formulation of quantum electrodynamics was easier to understand?
A) Paul Dirac
B) Niels Bohr
C) Freeman Dyson
D) Julian Schwinger
  • 43. Where did Feynman do much of his fundamental work for which he won the Nobel Prize?
A) Cornell University
B) University of Wisconsin–Madison
C) Telluride House
D) Los Alamos Laboratory
  • 44. Where did Richard Feynman spend several weeks in July 1949?
A) Rio de Janeiro
B) São Paulo
C) Belo Horizonte
D) Salvador
  • 45. Where did David Bohm emigrate after being arrested in the United States?
A) Mexico
B) Cuba
C) Brazil
D) Argentina
  • 46. What musical instrument did Feynman learn to play in Brazil?
A) Piano
B) Guitar
C) Frigideira
D) Violin
  • 47. Who invited Feynman to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech)?
A) Enrico Fermi
B) Edward Teller
C) John von Neumann
D) Bacher
  • 48. Where did Feynman and Mary Louise Bell get married?
A) Pasadena, California
B) Neodesha, Kansas
C) Rio de Janeiro
D) Boise, Idaho
  • 49. On what grounds was Feynman's divorce from Mary Louise Bell finalized?
A) Desertion
B) Irreconcilable differences
C) Adultery
D) Extreme cruelty
  • 50. What was Feynman's offer to Gweneth Howarth when he met her in Switzerland?
A) A job at Caltech
B) A trip around the world
C) An academic scholarship
D) $20 a week to be his live-in maid
  • 51. What year was Feynman's memoir 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' published?
A) 1985
B) 2000
C) 1990
D) 1979
  • 52. In which year did Richard Feynman purchase a Dodge Tradesman Maxivan?
A) 1990
B) 1967
C) 1984
D) 1975
  • 53. What was the license plate ID of Feynman's van?
A) QUARKS
B) PHOTON
C) QANTUM
D) ELECTRON
  • 54. Who bought Feynman's van in 2012?
A) John Bardeen
B) Seamus Blackley
C) Gweneth
D) Ralph Leighton
  • 55. What did Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann develop a model for?
A) Quantum gravity
B) Superconductivity
C) Weak decay
D) Strong interactions
  • 56. What did Feynman's parton model attempt to explain?
A) Gravitational interactions
B) The strong interactions governing nucleon scattering.
C) Weak force interactions
D) Electromagnetic interactions
  • 57. What did the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory experiments show?
A) Neutrons decay into protons and electrons.
B) Nucleons contained point-like particles that scattered electrons.
C) Photons have spin 2.
D) Quarks were just a bookkeeping device for symmetry numbers.
  • 58. In what year did Richard Feynman deliver his famous lecture titled 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom'?
A) 1984
B) 1974
C) 1959
D) 1964
  • 59. What concept did Feynman credit to his friend and graduate student Albert Hibbs?
A) Nanoscale machines
B) Microtechnology
C) Swallowing the doctor
D) Quantum computing
  • 60. In what year did Feynman serve on the California State Curriculum Commission?
A) 1974
B) 1984
C) 1964
D) 1959
  • 61. How many doctoral students did Feynman serve as an advisor to?
A) 30
B) 50
C) 10
D) 100
  • 62. In what year did Feynman support Jenijoy La Belle in filing a suit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission?
A) 1979
B) 1977
C) 1974
D) 1985
  • 63. What was Feynman's colleague Jenijoy La Belle hired as at Caltech in 1969?
A) a research assistant
B) the head of the English literature department
C) Caltech's first female professor
D) a lecturer
  • 64. What did the EEOC rule about La Belle in addition to ruling against Caltech?
A) La Belle's case was dismissed
B) La Belle had been paid less than male colleagues
C) Caltech was required to hire more female professors
D) La Belle was entitled to immediate tenure
  • 65. When did Jenijoy La Belle finally receive tenure?
A) 1985
B) 1977
C) 1969
D) 1979
  • 66. Who helped Feynman transcribe chapters for his autobiography in the 1980s?
A) Gell-Mann
B) Ralph Leighton
C) Jenijoy La Belle
D) Robert Leighton
  • 67. Which scientist was upset by Feynman's account in his autobiography regarding the weak interaction work?
A) Ralph Leighton
B) Gell-Mann
C) Robert Leighton
D) Jenijoy La Belle
  • 68. What did Gell-Mann threaten to do about Feynman's account in the book?
A) Write a rebuttal
B) Ignore it
C) Sue
D) Publicly criticize
  • 69. What chapter in 'Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!' describes Feynman learning to seduce women?
A) "The Pleasure of Finding Things Out"
B) "You Just Ask Them?"
C) "QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter"
D) "Six Easy Pieces"
  • 70. In what year did Feynman learn to seduce women at a bar, as described in his book?
A) 1985
B) 1946
C) 1977
D) 1969
  • 71. What name did Feynman give to the woman he interacted with at the bar in his book?
A) Jenijoy
B) Ann
C) Ralph
D) Gell-Mann
  • 72. Who advised Feynman to accept the Albert Einstein Award despite his reservations?
A) William P. Rogers.
B) Lewis Strauss.
C) Richard Schwinger.
D) Isidor Isaac Rabi.
  • 73. Which prestigious society elected Feynman as a Foreign Member?
A) The National Academy of Sciences.
B) The American Physical Society.
C) The Royal Society.
D) The Nobel Committee.
  • 74. What medal did Feynman receive in 1972?
A) The Oersted Medal.
B) The Nobel Prize.
C) The Albert Einstein Award.
D) The National Medal of Science.
  • 75. In which year was Richard Feynman first diagnosed with liposarcoma?
A) 1987
B) 1988
C) 1978
D) 1986
  • 76. What type of cancer was Feynman diagnosed with in 1986?
A) Leukemia
B) Liposarcoma
C) Waldenström macroglobulinemia
D) Melanoma
  • 77. Which organ was crushed by Feynman's tumor?
A) Liver
B) Pancreas
C) Heart
D) One kidney
  • 78. What was Feynman's last word before he died?
A) "Thank you"
B) "Goodbye"
C) "This dying is boring"
D) "I am ready to go"
  • 79. In what year was Ralph Leighton's book about Feynman's attempt to visit Tuva published?
A) 1995
B) 1988
C) 1991
D) 2000
  • 80. What medical procedure did Feynman decline that might have prolonged his life?
A) Dialysis
B) Surgery
C) Chemotherapy
D) Radiation therapy
  • 81. Which actor portrayed Richard Feynman in the 1996 biopic 'Infinity'?
A) Oscar Isaac
B) William Hurt
C) Alan Alda
D) Matthew Broderick
  • 82. Who commissioned a play about Feynman's life and also starred in it?
A) Matthew Broderick
B) Jim Ottaviani
C) Alan Alda
D) Victor Stabin
  • 83. In which year did the opera 'Feynman' premiere at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival?
A) 1996
B) 2013
C) 2016
D) 2005
  • 84. What was the subject of the 2013 BBC dramatization starring William Hurt?
A) The Challenger Disaster
B) Feynman's Nobel Prize
C) Feynman's Teaching Career
D) Feynman's Love Letters
  • 85. In which film directed by Christopher Nolan is Feynman portrayed by Jack Quaid?
A) Oppenheimer
B) The Big Bang Theory
C) QED
D) Infinity
  • 86. Which company used photographs of Feynman in their 'Think Different' advertising campaign?
A) IBM
B) Microsoft
C) Apple Computer
D) Google
  • 87. Which fictional character from 'The Big Bang Theory' is a Feynman fan?
A) Sheldon Cooper
B) Howard Wolowitz
C) Leonard Hofstadter
D) Penny
  • 88. Who designed the 'American Scientists' commemorative stamps?
A) Victor Stabin
B) Alan Alda
C) Peter Parnell
D) Carl T. Herrman
  • 89. In which year did Richard Feynman publish his PhD Dissertation, 'The Principle of Least Action in Quantum Mechanics'?
A) 1942
B) 1968
C) 1986
D) 1956
  • 90. Which publication featured Richard Feynman's paper on 'The λ-Transition in Liquid Helium'?
A) Engineering and Science
B) Reviews of Modern Physics
C) Science
D) Physical Review
  • 91. In which year did Richard Feynman present the lecture 'What is Science?' at the National Science Teachers Association?
A) 1974
B) 1966
C) 1955
D) 1988
  • 92. In which year did Richard Feynman publish 'There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom'?
A) 1974
B) 1960
C) 1956
D) 1988
  • 93. In which year did Richard Feynman publish his work on 'Effective classical partition functions'?
A) 1968
B) 1974
C) 1955
D) 1986
  • 94. In which year did Richard Feynman publish 'Mathematical formulation of the quantum theory of electromagnetic interaction'?
A) 1966
B) 1950
C) 1974
D) 1948
  • 95. Which publisher released the second edition of The Feynman Lectures on Physics in 2005?
A) MIT Press
B) McGraw Hill
C) Princeton University Press
D) Addison Wesley
  • 96. 'Lectures on Gravitation' was edited by whom?
A) Kip Thorne
B) Michael Gottlieb
C) Robin W. Allen
D) Brian Hatfield
  • 97. In which year was 'Six Easy Pieces' published?
A) 1997
B) 1996
C) 1985
D) 1994
  • 98. What is the ISBN of 'No Ordinary Genius: The Illustrated Richard Feynman'?
A) 0-393-01921-7
B) 0-393-31393-X
C) 0-7382-0166-9
D) 0-201-40955-0
  • 99. What is the ISBN for 'The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist'?
A) 0-7382-0166-9
B) 0-393-02659-0
C) 0-7382-0108-1
D) 0-201-40955-0
  • 100. What year was the video recording 'Tiny Machines: The Feynman Talk on Nanotechnology' released?
A) 1983
B) 1986
C) 1984
D) 1985
Created with That Quiz — the site for test creation and grading in math and other subjects.