Stephen Hawking Trivia Quiz Questions And Answers
What is Stephen Hawking's birth name?
A: Stephen William Hawking.
Stephen has two younger sisters, what are their names?
A: Philippa and Mary.
After Stephen and Jane's marriage, Jane began a PhD
program, and they had a son, Robert, who was born in what month?
A: May 1967.
When was Stephen Hawking born?
A: January 8, 1942.
How many children does Stephen Hawking have?
A: Three.
Where is Stephen Hawking's birthplace?
A: Oxford, England.
How many times has Hawking been married?
A: Twice.
Who is Stephen Hawking?
A: Stephen William Hawking is an English theoretical
physicist, cosmologist,
author and Director of Research at the Centre for Theoretical
Cosmology within
the University of Cambridge.
Hawking is an Honorary Fellow of what?
A: The Royal Society of Arts.
Stephen and Jane had a third child who they named Timothy
and who was born when?
A: April 1979.
Both Stephens parents attended what university?
A: University of Oxford
Stephen Hawking is a recipient of the highest civilian
award in the United States, which is what?
A: Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Hawking has an adopted brother named what?
A: Edward.
Stephen required much persuasion to accept the use of a
what at the end of the 1960s?
A: Wheelchair.
Hawking was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at what
university between 1979 and 2009?
A: Cambridge.
Hawking wrote the book, A Brief History of
Time, which
stayed on the British Sunday Times best-sellers list for how long?
A: A record-breaking 237 weeks.
Stephen has a disease related to amyotrophic lateral
sclerosis (ALS), also called what?
A: Lou Gehrig's Disease.
What were Hawking's parents names?
A: Frank and Isobel Hawking.
Hawking's parents met shortly after the beginning of the
what?
A: Second World War.
In 1950, where did Hawking and his family moved to?
A: St Albans, Hertfordshire.
During Hawking's childhood his family lived a frugal
existence and traveled in a what?
A: Converted London taxicab.
Stephen Hawking and who were engaged in October
1964?
A: Jane Wilde.
By the late 1970s Stephen's speech deteriorated to the
point where only his family and closest friends could what?
A: Understand him.
On what date were Stephen and Jane married?
A: On 14 July 1965.
Stephen slowly lost the ability to write, and consequently
he developed compensatory visual methods, including what?
A: Seeing equations in terms of
geometry.
In what year was Jane and Stephen Hawking's daughter born?
A: 1970.
During their first years of marriage, the couple had
difficulty finding housing that was within what?
A: Hawking's walking distance to the Department of Applied Mathematics and
Theoretical Physics (DAMTP).
Hawking rarely discussed his illness even with who?
A: Jane.
Hawking's disabilities meant that the responsibilities of
home and family rested firmly on who?
A: His wife.
In 1974 he was appointed to a position in Pasadena,
California, and Jane proposed what?
A: That a graduate or post-doctoral student live with them and help with his
care.
What was the name of the organist that Jane met while
singing in a church choir?
A: Jonathan Hellyer Jones.
In the late 1960s, Hawking began to use crutches and ceased
doing what regularly?
A: Lecturing.
The physicist Werner Israel once compared Hawking's
achievements to having Mozart do what?
A: Compose an entire symphony in his head.
Hawking became known for his wild what?
A: Wheelchair driving.
What did Hawking catch during a visit to the European
Organization for Nuclear Research in the summer of
1985?
A: Pneumonia which in his condition was life-threatening.
After having a tracheotomy, Stephen required what?
A: Round-the-clock nursing care.
After Stephens tracheotomy, the National Health Service
would pay for a nursing home, but Jane was determined that he would live where?
A: At home.
Stephens views of religion contrasted with Jane's what?
A: Strong Christian faith.
In the late 1980s Hawking had grown close to which one of
his nurses?
A: Elaine Mason.
After his divorce from Jane, Hawking married who in
September?
A: Mason.
In 1999 Jane Hawking published a memoir with what title?
A: Music to Move the Stars, describing her marriage to Hawking.