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