- 1. In what year was Albert Einstein born?
A) 1879
B) 1920
C) 1850
D) 1905
- 2. Which breakthrough theory did Einstein propose in 1905?
A) Theory of Relativity
B) Chaos Theory
C) Quantum Mechanics
D) String Theory
- 3. For his contributions to theoretical physics, Einstein won the Nobel Prize in which year?
A) 1900
B) 1935
C) 1921
D) 1945
- 4. Where did Einstein receive his primary and secondary education?
A) Switzerland
B) United States
C) Austria
D) Germany
- 5. In which city did Einstein spend the last years of his life, working on a unified field theory?
A) Princeton
B) Geneva
C) Berlin
D) Vienna
- 6. What is the title of the famous essay in which Einstein explained his theory of relativity?
A) The Grand Design
B) Einstein Revealed
C) Universe and More
D) On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
- 7. Which mathematician collaborated with Einstein on developing the theory of general relativity?
A) Marcel Grossmann
B) Isaac Newton
C) Richard Feynman
D) Carl Friedrich Gauss
- 8. During his lifetime, Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning what matter?
A) Space Travel
B) Genetic Engineering
C) Global Warming
D) Atomic Bomb
- 9. Which of the following animals is not said to have inspired Einstein's thought experiments?
A) Ant
B) Cat
C) Bumblebee
D) Horse
- 10. In what city was Einstein living when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany?
A) Vienna
B) Berlin
C) Princeton
D) Geneva
- 11. Which famous physicist, known for the uncertainty principle, was a contemporary of Einstein?
A) Werner Heisenberg
B) Richard Feynman
C) Stephen Hawking
D) Niels Bohr
- 12. Einstein was offered the presidency of which country upon the death of its first president?
A) Germany
B) Switzerland
C) United States
D) Israel
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