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  • 1. In what year was Stephen Hawking born?
A) 1968
B) 1942
C) 1974
D) 1955
  • 2. Which disease did Stephen Hawking battle for most of his life?
A) ALS
B) Cancer
C) Diabetes
D) Heart disease
  • 3. Which university did Stephen Hawking attend for his Ph.D. studies?
A) Oxford University
B) Stanford University
C) Harvard University
D) University of Cambridge
  • 4. What is the title of Stephen Hawking's famous book published in 1988?
A) The Grand Design
B) The Theory of Everything
C) Black Holes and Baby Universes
D) A Brief History of Time
  • 5. What is the name of the computerized speech system that Stephen Hawking used to communicate?
A) Equalizer
B) TalkBot
C) SpeechMaster
D) VoxSynth
  • 6. Which fellowship did Stephen Hawking hold at the University of Cambridge?
A) Darwinian Professorship of Biology
B) Newtonian Chair of Astronomy
C) Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics
D) Knightbridge Professorship of Physics
  • 7. What is the name of Stephen Hawking's daughter who is a novelist?
A) Alice Hawking
B) Lucy Hawking
C) Emily Hawking
D) Sophie Hawking
  • 8. Where was Stephen Hawking born?
A) Cambridge, England
B) Oxford, England
C) Manchester, England
D) London, England
  • 9. Which popular TV show did Stephen Hawking make multiple guest appearances on?
A) Stranger Things
B) Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
C) Breaking Bad
D) The Big Bang Theory
  • 10. Which scientific award did Stephen Hawking receive in 2012?
A) Nobel Prize in Physics
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Presidential Medal of Freedom
D) Oscar for Best Scientific Documentary
  • 11. During his undergraduate studies, what subject did Stephen Hawking excel in?
A) History
B) Literature
C) Physics
D) Mathematics
  • 12. What was the title of Stephen Hawking's last book, published posthumously in 2018?
A) There Is No God
B) Brief Answers to the Big Questions
C) The Grand Design
D) The Universe in a Nutshell
  • 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) My Brief History
D) Black Holes and Baby Universes
  • 14. At what age was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with motor neurone disease?
A) 25
B) 21
C) 18
D) 30
  • 15. How did Stephen Hawking communicate after losing his speech?
A) With a voice synthesizer controlled by eye movement
B) Through a speech-generating device using a single cheek muscle
C) Using sign language
D) Via written notes only
  • 16. Who did Stephen Hawking collaborate with on gravitational singularity theorems?
A) Roger Penrose
B) Albert Einstein
C) Richard Feynman
D) Niels Bohr
  • 17. Which interpretation of quantum mechanics did Stephen Hawking support?
A) Many-worlds interpretation
B) Pilot-wave theory
C) Copenhagen interpretation
D) Transactional interpretation
  • 18. How long did 'A Brief History of Time' remain on the Sunday Times bestseller list?
A) 237 weeks
B) 150 weeks
C) 200 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) 2010
D) 2002
  • 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) Wrote a book
C) Started a medical practice
D) Bought more farm land
  • 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) Mallorca
B) Oxford
C) St Albans, Hertfordshire
D) Glasgow
  • 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 train
B) On foot
C) By horse-drawn carriage
D) In a converted London taxicab.
  • 26. For how long did Stephen Hawking attend St Albans High School for Girls?
A) One year
B) Two years
C) Six months
D) A few months
  • 27. What did Stephen Hawking build in 1959?
A) A car
B) A television set
C) A bicycle
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 getting permission from his school
C) By showing how much he wanted it
D) By promising to pay for it himself
  • 29. What nickname was Stephen Hawking known by at school?
A) Galileo
B) Tesla
C) Newton
D) Einstein
  • 30. At what age did Stephen Hawking begin his university education?
A) 18
B) 20
C) 17
D) 19
  • 31. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's physics tutor at Oxford?
A) Dennis William Sciama
B) Fred Hoyle
C) Jayant Narlikar
D) Robert Berman
  • 32. What condition was necessary for Stephen Hawking's acceptance into graduate study at Cambridge?
A) A first-class degree
B) A third-class degree
C) An honors thesis
D) A second-class degree
  • 33. Who was Stephen Hawking's doctoral supervisor at Cambridge?
A) Dennis William Sciama
B) Robert Berman
C) Jayant Narlikar
D) Fred Hoyle
  • 34. What disease was Stephen Hawking diagnosed with during his doctoral studies?
A) Multiple sclerosis
B) Alzheimer's disease
C) Parkinson'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) Dannie Heineman Prize
B) Hughes Medal
C) Eddington Medal
D) Adams Prize
  • 36. In which year did Stephen Hawking and James M. Bardeen develop the four laws of black hole mechanics?
A) 1981
B) 1975
C) 1969
D) 1973
  • 37. What is the title of the book that contains lectures from the Starmus III Festival?
A) Beyond the Horizon
B) The Universe in a Nutshell
C) A Brief History of Time
D) Black Holes and Baby Universes
  • 38. In which Star Trek series did Stephen Hawking appear as a holographic simulation of himself?
A) Star Trek: Discovery
B) Star Trek: The Next Generation
C) Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
D) Star Trek: Voyager
  • 39. What was Jane Hawking's field of study for her PhD?
A) Mathematics
B) Medieval Spanish poetry
C) Theoretical astrophysics
D) Physics
  • 40. What was the title of the Pink Floyd song that featured Stephen Hawking's synthesiser voice in 1993?
A) Wish You Were Here
B) Another Brick in the Wall
C) Comfortably Numb
D) Keep Talking
  • 41. Which festival in 2016 was dedicated to Stephen Hawking?
A) Hawking Science Fest
B) Science Gala 2016
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) Barack Obama
B) George W. Bush
C) Bill Clinton
D) Donald Trump
  • 43. Which political party did Stephen Hawking support during his lifetime?
A) Labour Party
B) Liberal Democrats
C) Green Party
D) Conservative Party
  • 44. When was the Higgs boson discovered, confirming Hawking's bet?
A) December 2015
B) June 2008
C) March 2010
D) July 2012
  • 45. Who did Stephen Hawking collaborate with to propose the Hartle–Hawking state?
A) Kip Thorne
B) Jim Hartle
C) Brandon Carter
D) Leonard Susskind
  • 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) The NHS (National Health Service)
D) Private health insurance
  • 48. Which institution did Stephen Hawking visit in 1973, influencing his work on quantum gravity?
A) California Institute of Technology
B) Cambridge University
C) University of Oxford
D) Moscow
  • 49. In 1997, who did Stephen Hawking concede a bet to regarding the black hole information paradox?
A) John Preskill
B) Gary Gibbons
C) Kip Thorne
D) Thomas Hertog
  • 50. What did Stephen Hawking say could answer philosophical problems?
A) Historical analysis and interpretation.
B) Science, particularly new scientific theories.
C) Traditional philosophical methods.
D) Religious teachings and doctrines.
  • 51. Which radio programme did Stephen Hawking appear on in 1992?
A) Desert Island Discs
B) The Science Hour
C) BBC Radio 4
D) StarTalk
  • 52. What did Stephen Hawking consider as a pivotal factor in steering humanity's fate?
A) : Renewable energy
B) : Genetic engineering
C) Superintelligent artificial intelligence (AI)
D) : Space exploration
  • 53. Which journal published Stephen Hawking's work on gravitational radiation from colliding black holes?
A) Physical Review Letters
B) Journal of High Energy Physics
C) Nature
D) Communications in Mathematical Physics
  • 54. In what year did Stephen Hawking retire as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics?
A) 2015
B) 2009
C) 2017
D) 2018
  • 55. When was the Hawking Building opened to the public as part of the Science and Innovation Park?
A) October 2024
B) June 2018
C) March 2019
D) May 2021
  • 56. Which organization was Stephen Hawking associated with during his university years?
A) A religious fellowship at Oxford University.
B) A group promoting the existence of God.
C) Oxford University's humanist group.
D) The scientific community opposing religion.
  • 57. Which documentary film about particle physics received the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) Horizon: The Hawking Paradox
B) Stephen Hawking's Universe
C) The Theory of Everything
D) Particle Fever (2013)
  • 58. Who developed the 'Equalizer' computer program that helped Hawking communicate?
A) Walter Woltosz
B) Elaine Mason
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) 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) Jeff Bezos
B) Bill Gates
C) Richard Branson
D) Elon Musk
  • 62. What is one of the main focuses of the Professor Stephen Hawking Fellowship?
A) Historical research
B) Literary achievements
C) Political contributions
D) Impacts affecting younger generations
  • 63. In which year was Stephen Hawking elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)?
A) 1974
B) 2006
C) 1984
D) 1992
  • 64. Which award did Stephen Hawking decline in the late 1990s?
A) Copley Medal
B) Presidential Medal of Freedom
C) Knighthood
D) Nobel Prize
  • 65. What was the name of Stephen Hawking's second wife?
A) Jane Wilde
B) Jonathan Hellyer Jones
C) Lucy Hawking
D) Elaine Mason
  • 66. Which particle's existence did Stephen Hawking bet against being found?
A) WIMPs
B) The Higgs boson
C) Gravitons
D) Neutrinos
  • 67. Which children's book by Stephen Hawking was published in 2009?
A) George and the Big Bang
B) George and the Unbreakable Code
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 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) Contact could lead to cultural misunderstandings.
B) Aliens are inherently hostile.
C) Aliens might bring diseases.
D) Aliens might pillage Earth for resources.
  • 70. Stephen Hawking and which collaborator worked on the gravitational Hamiltonian in the presence of non-orthogonal boundaries?
A) C J Hunter
B) Thomas Hertog
C) J. B. Hartle
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) Horologium
D) Chronophage
  • 72. In which year did Stephen Hawking receive an Honorary Doctorate from Imperial College London?
A) 2017
B) 2013
C) 2009
D) 2015
  • 73. Who was the first recipient of the Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication?
A) Film Particle Fever
B) Composer Hans Zimmer
C) Brian May
D) Physicist Jim Al-Khalili
  • 74. Which book by Stephen Hawking was co-authored with Leonard Mlodinow and discusses the concept of 'The Grand Design'?
A) A Briefer History of Time
B) My Brief History
C) The Grand Design
D) God Created the Integers
  • 75. In what year did Stephen Hawking publish his paper on 'Black holes in general relativity'?
A) 1972
B) 1974
C) 1983
D) 2005
  • 76. Which U.S. presidential candidate did Hawking record a video tribute for in 2000?
A) John McCain
B) Al Gore
C) George W. Bush
D) Bill Clinton
  • 77. Which sitcom featured a guest appearance by Stephen Hawking in 2013?
A) Family Guy
B) Futurama
C) The Simpsons
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) Developing nuclear bunkers
C) Creating genetically modified humans
D) Colonising additional planets
  • 80. Which company operated the flight that took Stephen Hawking to experience weightlessness?
A) SpaceX
B) Virgin Galactic
C) Zero-G Corp
D) Blue Origin
  • 81. Who co-edited a book with Hawking on Euclidean quantum gravity?
A) John Preskill
B) Thomas Hertog
C) Kip Thorne
D) Gary Gibbons
  • 82. Which of these dangers did Stephen Hawking NOT mention as a risk to life on Earth?
A) Genetically engineered virus
B) Nuclear war
C) Global warming
D) Alien invasion
  • 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) N = 8 supergravity
C) Cosmological inflation
D) Quantum gravity
  • 85. Which organization issued a commemorative 50p coin in honor of Stephen Hawking?
A) The Royal Mint
B) The U.S. Mint
C) The Bank of England
D) The European Central Bank
  • 86. On what date did Stephen Hawking fly aboard a specially-modified Boeing 727-200 jet to experience weightlessness?
A) 26 April 2007
B) 1 January 2006
C) 14 March 2018
D) 15 August 2012
  • 87. What initiative did Stephen Hawking help launch in 2015 to search for extraterrestrial life?
A) Breakthrough Initiatives
B) Extraterrestrial Life Initiative
C) Alien Discovery Mission
D) Cosmic Search Project
  • 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 irretrievably lost when a black hole evaporates.
C) Information can be retrieved after evaporation.
D) Information is converted into Hawking radiation.
  • 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) Best Scientist Award
B) Science Communicator of the Year
C) Lifetime achievement award
D) Innovator of the Year
  • 91. In what decade did Stephen Hawking begin accepting the role model mantle for disabled people?
A) 1980s
B) 2000s
C) 2010s
D) 1990s
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