WONDER #2273: Who Was Stephen Hawking?

Question 1 of 3

Stephen Hawking did significant work on the physics of what?

  1. black holes
  2. round holes
  3. white holes
  4. donut holes

Question 2 of 3

In 1979, Stephen Hawking was appointed to a post once held by Sir Isaac Newton at which university?

  1. Oxford
  2. Harvard
  3. Cambridge
  4. MIT

Question 3 of 3

In the early 1960s, Stephen Hawking contracted which incurable degenerative neuromuscular disease?

  1. amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
  2. multiple sclerosis
  3. heart disease
  4. malaria

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