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