Test your knowledge of the world's most famous scientist and genius, Albert Einstein!
What was the name of the German mathematician who helped Einstein develop the general theory of relativity?
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David Hilbert
What was the name of the famous thought experiment involving a train and two lightning bolts?
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Einstein's train
What is the name of the famous equation that relates the temperature and volume of a gas?
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Gay-Lussac's law
What was Albert Einstein's profession?
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Physicist
What is the name of the famous paper that Albert Einstein published in 1905?
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On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
What is the name of the famous equation that relates energy and mass?
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E=mc²
What is the name of the famous equation that relates energy and frequency?
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Planck's law
What was the name of the physicist who famously debated Einstein over the interpretation of quantum mechanics?
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Niels Bohr
What was the name of the scientist who conducted the famous Eddington Experiment that confirmed Einstein's theory of general relativity?
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Arthur Eddington
In which city was Albert Einstein born?
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Ulm
What was the name of the famous letter that Einstein sent to President Roosevelt urging him to start a nuclear weapons program?
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The Einstein-Szilard Letter
What was Albert Einstein's nationality?
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German
What was the name of the famous debate between Einstein and Bohr over the interpretation of quantum mechanics?
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The Bohr-Einstein Debates
What is the name of the famous equation that relates mass and gravity?
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Newton's law of gravitation
What was the name of the famous equation that Einstein developed?
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E=mc²
What was the name of Albert Einstein's first wife?
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Mileva Maric
What is the name of the famous equation that relates the pressure and temperature of a gas?
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Ideal gas law
Which political ideology did Einstein support later in his life?
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Democratic socialism
Which language did Einstein learn from his mother?
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German
What was the name of the book that Einstein wrote in 1905 that contained his theory of special relativity?
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On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
Which of these awards was not received by Albert Einstein?
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Fields Medal
What is the name of the theory that Einstein is most famous for?
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Theory of General Relativity
What was the name of the school that Einstein attended in Munich, Germany?
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Luitpold Gymnasium
What was the name of the scientist who discovered nuclear fission and warned Einstein about the potential danger of atomic weapons?
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Leo Szilard
What was the name of the institute where Einstein worked when he moved to the United States?
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Institute for Advanced Study
What university did Albert Einstein attend?
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ETH Zurich
What was the name of the scientist who discovered the double helix structure of DNA and won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962?
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Francis Crick
Which influential philosopher's works did Einstein read during his time at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology?
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Immanuel Kant
What is the name of the famous letter that Albert Einstein sent to President Roosevelt about the possibility of an atomic bomb?
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Einstein-Szilard letter
What was the name of the town where Einstein spent the last years of his life?
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Princeton
What was the name of the physicist who collaborated with Einstein on the Bose-Einstein Condensate?
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Satyendra Nath Bose
In what year was Albert Einstein born?
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1879
What was the name of the scientist who discovered the photoelectric effect and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921?
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Albert Einstein
Which university awarded Einstein an honorary doctorate in 1920?
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University of Geneva
What was the name of the building where Einstein lived while working at Princeton University?
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Fine Hall
What is the name of the famous paradox that involves a twin who travels at high speed and returns younger than their sibling?
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Twin paradox
What was the name of the scientist who discovered penicillin and won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1945?
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Alexander Fleming
What was the name of the mathematician who helped Einstein develop the mathematics behind his theories?
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Marcel Grossmann
What is the name of the patent office where Einstein worked as a technical expert?
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Swiss Federal Office for Intellectual Property
What was the name of the scientist who discovered X-rays and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901?
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Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
What was the name of the pacifist organization that Einstein co-founded in 1938?
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The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists
What was the name of the scientist who discovered the laws of thermodynamics and invented the steam engine?
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James Watt
What is the name of the famous equation that relates the entropy of a system to the number of microstates?
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Boltzmann equation
Which university did Albert Einstein attend to study physics and mathematics?
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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
What is the name of the famous experiment that confirmed Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity?
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Eddington experiment
What was the name of the scientist who discovered the neutron and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935?
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James Chadwick
Which of these theories was not developed by Albert Einstein?
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Quantum field theory
What was the name of the scientist who discovered radioactivity and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903?
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Marie Curie
What was the name of the philosopher who famously debated Einstein over the nature of reality?
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Henri Bergson
What was the name of the scientist who discovered the existence of black holes and worked with Einstein on developing the theory of general relativity?
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Karl Schwarzschild
What was the name of the magazine that published Einstein's 'Why Socialism?' article?
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Monthly Review
What is the name of the book that Albert Einstein wrote in 1905?
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On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies
Which element is named after Albert Einstein?
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Einsteinium
Where was Albert Einstein born?
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Ulm, Germany
What was the name of the institute that Einstein founded in Berlin in 1914?
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Kaiser Wilhelm Institute
What was the name of the famous thought experiment that Einstein used to explain the concept of time dilation?
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Twin Paradox
What was the name of Albert Einstein's second wife?
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Elsa Einstein
What was the name of the elementary school that Einstein attended?
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Luitpold Gymnasium
What was the name of the scientist who discovered the electron and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1906?
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J.J. Thomson
What was the name of the ship that Albert Einstein took to America?
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SS Rotterdam
Which famous world leader did Einstein describe as 'the incarnation of all the evil in our time' in a 1933 letter?
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Adolf Hitler
What was the name of the scientist who discovered the laws of motion and gravity?
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Isaac Newton
What is the name of the famous equation that relates the work done by a gas to its change in volume?
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Joule's law
What was the name of the second wife of Albert Einstein?
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Elsa Einstein
What is the name of the particle that carries the electromagnetic force?
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Photon
What was the name of the scientist who discovered the positron and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936?
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Carl Anderson
In which year did Einstein become a citizen of the United States?
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1940
What was the name of the first wife of Albert Einstein?
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Mileva Maric
What university did Albert Einstein attend in Switzerland?
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ETH Zurich
What is the name of the famous equation that relates momentum and wavelength?
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de Broglie equation
What was the name of the ship that Albert Einstein took to America in 1933?
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SS Belgenland
What is the name of the theory that describes gravity as a curvature of spacetime?
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General relativity
What was the name of the scientist who discovered the proton and won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1935?
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Ernest Rutherford
What was the name of the hospital where Einstein died in 1955?
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Princeton Hospital
What was the name of the document signed by Einstein and other scientists warning President Roosevelt about the potential development of atomic bombs?
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Einstein-Szilard letter
Which famous equation is attributed to Albert Einstein?
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E=mc²
Which famous American civil rights activist did Einstein invite to his home in 1937?
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Paul Robeson
What is the name of the famous equation that relates the pressure and volume of a gas?
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Boyle's law
Which famous scientist did Einstein meet in 1930 during his trip to the United States?
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Thomas Edison
What is the name of the famous equation that relates space and time?
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Space-time
What is the name of the famous equation that relates the mass of a particle to its lifetime?
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Gell-Mann–Nishijima formula
What is the name of the famous thought experiment involving a photon and two slits?
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Double-slit experiment
What is the name of the phenomenon where light bends when it passes through a medium with a different refractive index?
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Refraction
In which year did Einstein publish his four groundbreaking papers known as the Annus Mirabilis papers?
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1905
In which year did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize in Physics?
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1921
What was the name of the sailboat that Einstein owned?
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Tümmler
What is Albert Einstein's most famous equation?
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E=mc²
What was the title of Albert Einstein's first scientific paper, published in 1901?
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The Conclusions from the Capillarity Phenomena
Which country offered Albert Einstein its presidency in 1952?
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Israel
What was the name of the family friend who tutored Einstein in mathematics and philosophy?
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Max Talmud
What is the name of the famous equation that relates mass and energy?
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E=mc²
What is the name of the famous equation that relates the force on a charged particle to its electric field?
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Lorentz force law
What is the name of the famous equation that relates the volume and number of particles of a gas?
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Avogadro's law
What is the name of the famous equation that relates the probability amplitude of a particle to its position?
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Schrödinger equation
What was the name of the scientist who confirmed Einstein's general theory of relativity through observations during a solar eclipse?
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Arthur Eddington
Which famous Indian leader did Einstein write about in a tribute essay in 1944?
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Mahatma Gandhi
What was the name of the organization founded by Einstein and other intellectuals in 1924?
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The League against Imperialism
Which musical instrument did Albert Einstein play?
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Violin
Which famous scientist did Einstein correspond with regarding quantum mechanics?
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Niels Bohr
Which physicist collaborated with Einstein to develop the Bose-Einstein condensate theory?