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