Test Your Knowledge How much do you know about Albert Einstein? Click on the answers below, then hit the submit button to find out.
1. Name the musical instrument that Einstein learned to play as a child and
later saw as a complement to his scientific research:
The cello
The harpsichord
The violin
The French horn
2. In 1905, Einstein published four revolutionary essays in the German
physics journal "Annalen der Physik" on all of the following topics except:
The special theory of relativity
Brownian motion
The photoelectric effect
The equivalence of mass and energy
Einstein's essays were on all of the above topics
3. True or False: According to Einstein's general theory of relativity,
gravity is what happens when mass causes space to curve.
True
False
4. Einstein received the 1921 Nobel prize for his work in what field of
physics?
The theory of relativity
The unified field theory
Quantum theory
The law of the photoelectric effect
5. What did Einstein call "the one great mistake in my life"?
Urging President Roosevelt to build atomic bombs
Renouncing his German citizenship
Advocating the creation of a unified organization to govern the world
Rejecting quantum theory for the unified field theory
6. Whom did Einstein consider the greatest political leader of the 20th
century?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mohandas Gandhi
David Ben-Gurion
Neville Chamberlain
7. In 1952, Einstein was offered the presidency of what country?
Germany
U.S.
Israel
Switzerland
8. What was the name of Einstein's ultimately unsuccessful attempt to
explain electromagnetism and gravity as separate parts of a single field?
The general theory of relativity
The unified field theory
Quantum electrodynamics
The gauge theory
9. Space and time exist in a continuum, according to which of the following
Einstein theories?
The general theory of relativity
The special theory of relativity
The law of photoelectric effect
The quantitative theory of Brownian motion
10. What was Einstein's equation for the relationship between energy and
matter?
