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O'Reilly's History Quiz
Albert Einstein: A Genius is Born
1. Born on March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein was born in what country?
Switzerland
Czechoslovakia
Austria
Hungary
Germany
2. While earning a doctorate in Switzerland he worked where?
Railroad office
Post office
Patent office
Stamp office
Bank office
3. The year 1905 is referred to by historians as what, when writing of Einstein?
Annus horriblis
Annus dullus
Annus mirabilis
Annus magnificus
Annus boringis
4. The first paper on light won Einstein which prize in 1921?
Pritzker
Nobel
Fields
Physics
Pulitzer
5. The second paper and the third paper helped to prove that what exist?
Atoms
Cells
Light
Planets
Gravity
6. The fourth paper addressed what he called the special theory of what?
Unification
Relativity
Everything
Nothing
Something
7. The fifth and final paper announced the calculation of what formula?
E=MC
M+EC
Q=EM
C^2=ME
E=MC^2
8. Einstein, in referring to his unified theory, said that who does play dice?
Bohr
Newton
God
Hawking
Curie
9. Einstein took a position at the Institute for Advanced Study and lectured informally at what university?
Rutgers
Princeton
Harvard
Yale
Columbia
10. Despite being a pacifist, Einstein wrote to which president urging him to looking to atomic research?
Truman
Wilson
Roosevelt
Harding
Eisenhower
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