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Albert Einstein Trivia

From failing exams to patent office gigs and chasing beams of light, test if you can outshine Einstein's legendary quirks.

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

In 1902, while struggling to find an academic position, Einstein was hired as an assistant examiner at which specific Swiss office?

Patent Office

Published in his 'annus mirabilis' papers, in what year did he release 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies,' introducing special relativity?

1905

In his general theory of relativity, Einstein proposed that the true source of gravity is actually what physical quantity, of which mass is just one form?

Energy

At age 16, Albert Einstein conducted a famous thought experiment imagining what it would look like if he successfully chased and ran alongside a what?

Beam of light

After renouncing his German citizenship to escape Nazi persecution, Albert Einstein became a naturalized citizen of which country in 1940?

The United States