Stephen Hawking - Quiz
Stephen Hawking
  • 1. In what year was Stephen Hawking born?
A) 1974
B) 1955
C) 1968
D) 1942
  • 2. Which disease did Stephen Hawking battle for most of his life?
A) Diabetes
B) ALS
C) Heart disease
D) Cancer
  • 3. Which university did Stephen Hawking attend for his Ph.D. studies?
A) Stanford University
B) University of Cambridge
C) Oxford University
D) Harvard University
  • 4. What is the title of Stephen Hawking's famous book published in 1988?
A) Black Holes and Baby Universes
B) A Brief History of Time
C) The Grand Design
D) The Theory of Everything
  • 5. What is the name of the computerized speech system that Stephen Hawking used to communicate?
A) Equalizer
B) SpeechMaster
C) VoxSynth
D) TalkBot
  • 6. Which fellowship did Stephen Hawking hold at the University of Cambridge?
A) Newtonian Chair of Astronomy
B) Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics
C) Darwinian Professorship of Biology
D) Knightbridge Professorship of Physics
  • 7. What is the name of Stephen Hawking's daughter who is a novelist?
A) Alice Hawking
B) Emily Hawking
C) Lucy Hawking
D) Sophie Hawking
  • 8. Where was Stephen Hawking born?
A) Cambridge, England
B) Manchester, England
C) London, 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) Nobel Prize in Physics
B) Presidential Medal of Freedom
C) Oscar for Best Scientific Documentary
D) Pulitzer Prize
  • 11. During his undergraduate studies, what subject did Stephen Hawking excel in?
A) History
B) Literature
C) Mathematics
D) Physics
  • 12. What was the title of Stephen Hawking's last book, published posthumously in 2018?
A) The Universe in a Nutshell
B) The Grand Design
C) Brief Answers to the Big Questions
D) There Is No God
  • 13. What is the title of Stephen Hawking's autobiographical book published in 2013?
A) The Grand Design
B) A Brief History of Time Revisited
C) Black Holes and Baby Universes
D) My Brief History
  • 14. At what age was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with motor neurone disease?
A) 18
B) 21
C) 30
D) 25
  • 15. How did Stephen Hawking communicate after losing his speech?
A) Via written notes only
B) Using sign language
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) Albert Einstein
C) Niels Bohr
D) Richard Feynman
  • 17. Which interpretation of quantum mechanics did Stephen Hawking support?
A) Copenhagen interpretation
B) Pilot-wave theory
C) Transactional interpretation
D) Many-worlds 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) 2010
C) 1999
D) 2005
  • 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) Opened a school in their home
B) Started a medical practice
C) Wrote a book
D) Bought more farm land
  • 22. What was Frank Hawking's specialization?
A) Physics
B) Philosophy
C) Tropical diseases
D) Economics
  • 23. Where did the Hawking family move when Frank became head of the division of parasitology?
A) Mallorca
B) Glasgow
C) Oxford
D) St Albans, Hertfordshire
  • 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) On foot
C) By train
D) In a converted London taxicab.
  • 26. For how long did Stephen Hawking attend St Albans High School for Girls?
A) One year
B) Six months
C) Two years
D) A few months
  • 27. What did Stephen Hawking build in 1959?
A) A car
B) A bicycle
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 persuading him that he could assemble one from cheap parts
B) By promising to pay for it himself
C) By getting permission from his school
D) By showing how much he wanted it
  • 29. What nickname was Stephen Hawking known by at school?
A) Newton
B) Tesla
C) Einstein
D) Galileo
  • 30. At what age did Stephen Hawking begin his university education?
A) 19
B) 17
C) 18
D) 20
  • 31. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's physics tutor at Oxford?
A) Jayant Narlikar
B) Dennis William Sciama
C) Fred Hoyle
D) Robert Berman
  • 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 third-class degree
D) A second-class degree
  • 33. Who was Stephen Hawking's doctoral supervisor at Cambridge?
A) Fred Hoyle
B) Robert Berman
C) Jayant Narlikar
D) Dennis William Sciama
  • 34. What disease was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with during his doctoral studies?
A) Multiple sclerosis
B) Parkinson's disease
C) Motor neurone disease
D) Alzheimer's disease
  • 35. Which prize did Stephen Hawking share with Roger Penrose for his essay 'Singularities and the Geometry of Space–Time'?
A) Eddington Medal
B) Adams Prize
C) Hughes 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) 1973
B) 1969
C) 1981
D) 1975
  • 37. What is the title of the book that contains lectures from the Starmus III Festival?
A) Black Holes and Baby Universes
B) A Brief History of Time
C) Beyond the Horizon
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: The Next Generation
B) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
C) Star Trek: Discovery
D) Star Trek: Voyager
  • 39. What was Jane Hawking's field of study for her PhD?
A) Theoretical astrophysics
B) Physics
C) Medieval Spanish poetry
D) Mathematics
  • 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) Hawking Science Fest
C) Starmus III Festival
D) Quantum Physics Symposium
  • 42. Which U.S. president's policies did Hawking criticize for denying evidence of climate change?
A) Bill Clinton
B) Donald Trump
C) George W. Bush
D) Barack Obama
  • 43. Which political party did Stephen Hawking support during his lifetime?
A) Green Party
B) Conservative Party
C) Liberal Democrats
D) Labour Party
  • 44. When was the Higgs boson discovered, confirming Hawking's bet?
A) July 2012
B) June 2008
C) December 2015
D) March 2010
  • 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) Malice
B) Inefficiency
C) Obsolescence
D) Competence
  • 47. What healthcare system did Stephen Hawking believe was essential for his survival into his 70s?
A) The NHS (National Health Service)
B) Medicare
C) Private health insurance
D) Universal Healthcare
  • 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) Kip Thorne
C) Thomas Hertog
D) John Preskill
  • 50. What did Stephen Hawking say could answer philosophical problems?
A) Historical analysis and interpretation.
B) Religious teachings and doctrines.
C) Traditional philosophical methods.
D) Science, particularly new scientific theories.
  • 51. Which radio programme did Stephen Hawking appear on in 1992?
A) The Science Hour
B) BBC Radio 4
C) Desert Island Discs
D) StarTalk
  • 52. What did Stephen Hawking consider as a pivotal factor in steering humanity's fate?
A) : Space exploration
B) : Genetic engineering
C) : Renewable energy
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) Nature
C) Physical Review Letters
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) May 2021
B) October 2024
C) March 2019
D) June 2018
  • 56. Which organization was Stephen Hawking associated with during his university years?
A) A group promoting the existence of God.
B) Oxford University's humanist group.
C) A religious fellowship at Oxford University.
D) The scientific community opposing religion.
  • 57. Which documentary film about particle physics received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) Particle Fever (2013)
B) Horizon: The Hawking Paradox
C) The Theory of Everything
D) Stephen Hawking's Universe
  • 58. Who developed the 'Equalizer' computer program that helped Hawking communicate?
A) Elaine Mason
B) Walter Woltosz
C) Bernard Carr
D) Don Page
  • 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) 2025
B) 1998
C) 2006
D) 2010
  • 61. Who offered Stephen Hawking a free flight into space?
A) Elon Musk
B) Jeff Bezos
C) Bill Gates
D) Richard Branson
  • 62. What is one of the main focuses of the Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship?
A) Historical research
B) Impacts affecting younger generations
C) Political contributions
D) Literary achievements
  • 63. In which year was Stephen Hawking elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)?
A) 2006
B) 1992
C) 1974
D) 1984
  • 64. Which award did Stephen Hawking decline in the late 1990s?
A) Presidential Medal of Freedom
B) Nobel Prize
C) Knighthood
D) Copley Medal
  • 65. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's second wife?
A) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
B) Lucy Hawking
C) Jane Wilde
D) Elaine Mason
  • 66. Which particle's existence did Stephen Hawking bet against being found?
A) Neutrinos
B) The Higgs boson
C) WIMPs
D) Gravitons
  • 67. Which children's book by Stephen Hawking was published in 2009?
A) George and the Unbreakable Code
B) George and the Big Bang
C) George and the Blue Moon
D) George's Cosmic Treasure Hunt
  • 68. Who was Ghislaine Maxwell, mentioned in the context of an email involving Stephen Hawking?
A) A musician
B) A physicist
C) A British child sex trafficker
D) An astronaut
  • 69. According to Stephen Hawking, why should contact with aliens be avoided?
A) Contact could lead to cultural misunderstandings.
B) Aliens might pillage Earth for resources.
C) Aliens are inherently hostile.
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) Tempus Fugit
B) Timekeeper
C) Chronophage
D) Horologium
  • 72. In which year did Stephen Hawking receive an Honorary Doctorate from Imperial College London?
A) 2015
B) 2017
C) 2009
D) 2013
  • 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) The Grand Design
B) A Briefer History of Time
C) God Created the Integers
D) My Brief History
  • 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) George W. Bush
B) Al Gore
C) John McCain
D) Bill Clinton
  • 77. Which sitcom featured a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking in 2013?
A) The Simpsons
B) Futurama
C) Family Guy
D) South Park
  • 78. In which month and year was a speech of Stephen Hawking's beamed into space?
A) March 2019
B) November 2018
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) Building underground cities
B) Creating genetically modified humans
C) Colonising additional planets
D) Developing nuclear bunkers
  • 80. Which company operated the flight that took Stephen Hawking to experience weightlessness?
A) Blue Origin
B) Virgin Galactic
C) SpaceX
D) Zero-G Corp
  • 81. Who co-edited a book with Hawking on Euclidean quantum gravity?
A) Gary Gibbons
B) Thomas Hertog
C) Kip Thorne
D) John Preskill
  • 82. Which of these dangers did Stephen Hawking NOT mention as a risk to life on Earth?
A) Genetically engineered virus
B) Alien invasion
C) Nuclear war
D) Global warming
  • 83. Who lived with the Hawking family during Stephen's position at Caltech?
A) Elaine Mason
B) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
C) Don Page
D) Bernard Carr
  • 84. What theory did Stephen Hawking propose in his inaugural lecture as Lucasian Professor?
A) Cosmological inflation
B) N = 8 supergravity
C) Quantum gravity
D) Hartle–Hawking state
  • 85. Which organization issued a commemorative 50p coin in honor of Stephen Hawking?
A) The European Central Bank
B) The U.S. Mint
C) The Royal Mint
D) The Bank of England
  • 86. On what date did Stephen Hawking fly aboard a specially-modified Boeing 727-200 jet to experience weightlessness?
A) 14 March 2018
B) 1 January 2006
C) 15 August 2012
D) 26 April 2007
  • 87. What initiative did Stephen Hawking help launch in 2015 to search for extraterrestrial life?
A) Cosmic Search Project
B) Alien Discovery Mission
C) Breakthrough Initiatives
D) Extraterrestrial Life Initiative
  • 88. What did Stephen Hawking propose about information in a black hole in 1981?
A) Information is stored at the event horizon.
B) Information is converted into Hawking radiation.
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) 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) Innovator of the Year
C) Best Scientist Award
D) Science Communicator of the Year
  • 91. In what decade did Stephen Hawking begin accepting the role model mantle for disabled people?
A) 2010s
B) 1980s
C) 2000s
D) 1990s
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