Stephen Hawking Quiz - 45 Trivia Questions!

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Delve into the brilliant mind of Stephen Hawking, the renowned theoretical physicist and cosmologist. Test your understanding of his groundbreaking work on black holes, the universe, and his inspirational life story.

Who played Stephen Hawking in the 2014 film 'The Theory of Everything'?

David Tennant
Daniel Craig
David Thewlis
Eddie Redmayne

Which British Prime Minister presented Stephen Hawking with a lifetime achievement award at the 2016 Pride of Britain Awards?

David Cameron
Elizabeth May
Theresa May
Nick Clegg

Who offered a free space flight to Stephen Hawking in 2007?

NASA
The government of India
SpaceX
Richard Branson

Which US President presented Stephen Hawking with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2009?

George Bush
George W Bush
George W. Bush
Barack Obama

Which medal was awarded to Stephen Hawking by the Royal Society in 2006?

Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize
Copley Medal

What is the title of Stephen Hawking's last book, published posthumously in October 2018?

The Universe and the World
Hawking's Theory of Relativity
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
Hawking's Universe

In which country did Stephen Hawking receive the Fonseca Prize in 2008?

Japan
Spain
The United Kingdom
South Africa

What is Stephen Hawking's 1992 conjecture that is effectively impossible?

Travel into the past
Travel to the future
Travel into space
Travel into the future

What was the name of Stephen Hawking's nurse who was struck off the nursing register in March 2019?

Mary O'Brien
Patricia Dowdy
Mary Hawking
Jane Hawking

Who is the leader of the Labour Party in the UK?

Tony Blair
Jeremy Corbyn
Andrew Lansley
Nick Clegg

In the radio series ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’, Stephen Hawking provides the voice for which book?

The Invisible Man
Mark II
The Deepest Sea
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the Planets

Which physicist proposed the 'Inflationary Universe' theory in 1981?

Robert Hawking
Carl Sagan
Carl Einstein
Alan Guth

Who co-wrote 'A Briefer History of Time' with Stephen Hawking?

Leonard Mlodinow
Hawking's father
Stephen Hawking
John Hershey

What did Stephen Hawking study in 1973?

The universe
Physics
Astrophysics
Quantum gravity

Which physicist collaborated with Stephen Hawking on the 'Big Bang' model of the universe?

Peter Higgs
John Hawking
Jim Hartle
David Hume

What was the name of the school attended by Stephen Hawking?

The New School
Byron House
The King's School
The School of Oriental Studies

What was the name of the wife of physicist Stephen Hawking?

Stephen Hawking
Jane Wilde
Linda Hawking
Elizabeth Hawking

Stephen Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at which university?

Cambridge
Oxford
London

Stephen Hawking was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from which London university in July 2017?

The University of Manchester
University College London
University of Cambridge
Imperial College

Which physicist lost a bet with Stephen Hawking about the existence of black holes?

Robert Hooke
John Hawking
Steve Hawking
Kip Thorne

What challenge did Stephen Hawking accept in 2014?

The World Brain Day Challenge
The ALS Challenge
The Ice Bucket Challenge
A campaign to raise money for the National Cancer Institute

What religion is Stephen Hawking associated with?

Atheism
Christian
Hinduism
Evangelical

Who played the part of Spock in the original Star Trek series?

William Shatner
David Niven
James T. Kirk
Leonard Nimoy

What disease did Stephen Hawking die from?

Brain cancer
A heart attack
Motor neurone disease
Brain tumor

Stephen Hawking is critical of which country's policy on the Palestinians?

Israel
South Africa
China
Britain

What is the title of Stephen Hawking's first book, published in 1973?

The Universe Is Flat
The Universe and Everything
The Universe Around Us
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time

In physics, Hawking radiation is the radiation emitted by what?

The sun
a galaxy
planets
Black hole

What is the name of the organist married to Jane Hawking?

John Hawking
Jonathan Hellyer Jones
Robert Hawking
Jane Hawking

In which British city was Stephen Hawking born?

Manchester
Oxford
London
Glasgow

Which physicist was in a wheelchair when he inaugurated the Laboratory of Astronomy and Particles in Paris in 2006?

Stephen Hawking
Carl Sagan
David Bowie
John Herschel

Stephen Hawking is a supporter of which political party?

Conservative
Green Party
Greens
Labour

In 1979, Stephen Hawking was appointed Lucasian Professor of what at Cambridge University?

Science
Mathematics
Theology
Physics

In 1984, Stephen Hawking became a member of which US society?

The American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Philosophical Society
The American Mathematical Society
National Academy of Sciences

In which subject did Stephen Hawking receive a first class degree from Oxford University in 1962?

Physics
Philosophy
Mathematics
History

What did Stephen Hawking describe as a race of super-intelligent creatures that could design their own evolution?

Intelligent machines
The super-intelligent
Superhumans
Intelligent animals

What was the name of the computer program developed by Walter Woltosz to help his mother-in-law with ALS?

Equalizer
ALS Alert
ALS
The Human Brain

Which British physicist won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2013 for his work on the Higgs boson?

David Robertson
Peter Higgs and Andrew Wilson
Peter Higgs
John Hawking

Stephen Hawking is a role model for what group of people?

Disabled
Young
Young people
Students

What was the name of the nurse who married Stephen Hawking in 1990?

Elaine Mason
Nancy Hawking
Linda Hawking
Jane Hawking

What is the title of Stephen Hawking's best-selling book on cosmology?

Hawking's Universe
The Universe Is Full of Love
A Brief History of Time
The Universe in a Nutshell

Which physicist postulated the second law of physics, that a black hole's event horizon can never get smaller?

Hawking
Albert Einstein
Einstein
Newton

In 1974, Stephen Hawking was elected a Fellow of which scientific society?

Royal Society
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Physical Society
The Royal Society of Chemistry

At which university did Stephen Hawking receive a first class degree in physics in 1966?

University College, Cambridge
University College, Oxford
University of Cambridge
Cambridge University

What name is given to the radiation emitted by black holes?

Black holes
Hawking's black hole
Hawking radiation
X-rays

What type of vehicle does physicist Stephen Hawking use?

Electric vehicle
Wheelchair
Electric bike
Car
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