Early Life
Albert Einstein was this nationality.
What is German
Best known equation associated with Einstein.
What is E = mc².
Einstein hated wearing this particular item of clothing.
What are socks.
Despite his love for sailing, Einstein never learned this important skill.
What is to swim.
Einstein renounced (surrendered) this twice in his lifetime.
What is his German citizenship. (First time was so he did not have to fight in WWI and the second time was because of his political views).
Albert Einstein was born in this year.
What is 1879.
Einstein is most commonly associated with which theory?
What is the Theory of Relativity.
Einstein was offered the presidency of which country in 1952?
What is Israel.
This US survellience team created a 1,400-page file on Einstein on suspicion of communist sympathies during The Cold War.
What is the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
True or false. Einstein married his second cousin.
What is true. Einstein and his second wife Elsa were actually FIRST and SECOND cousins.
Elsa was the daughter of Albert’s mother’s sister, making them first cousins. They were also second cousins, as Elsa’s father and Albert’s father were cousins. Her maiden name was Einstein.
True or false. Einsttein failed Maths as a student.
What is false.
Einstein moved to this country to escape the Nazis?
What is the United States.
Einstein wrote a letter about nuclear weapons to this U.S. president?
Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Name Einstein's cause of death.
What is aortic aneurysm rupture. (A blood vessel ruptured in his heart and he refused surgery).
True or false. Einstein had an illegitimate baby.
What is true.
Einstein’s future wife Mileva gave birth out of wedlock to a baby girl in 1902 while staying with her family in Serbia. The baby was named Lieserl, and it’s believed by historians that she either died in infancy, probably of scarlet fever, or was given up for adoption. In all likelihood, Einstein never saw his daughter in person.
The name of Einstein's first wife.
What is Mileva Marić
Einstein worked at this university while conducting his General Relativity research.
What is the University of Berlin.
Music was one of Einstein's greatest passions. Einstein played this instrument.
What is the violin.
Einstein lived here + worked at this world-class university during the last decades of his life.
What is New Jersey and Princeton University.
This body part was stolen for research purposes although Einstein explicitly forbade any part of his body be donated to science.
What is Einstein's brain (and eyes) were stolen by a physician at Princeton hospital.
Einstein worked here when he developed many of his theories.
What is the Swiss Patent Office.
Name the year and topic Einstein won the Nobel Prize.
What is 1921 + Photoelectric effect.
Einstein only started speaking at this age?
What is the age of four.
True or false. Einstein worked on the Manhatten Project.
What is false. He spoke to Roosevelt about nuclear testing but he did not actually participate in the Manhatten Project.
True or false. Einstein's son Teddy was institutionalized for most of his adult life.
What is true.
Albert’s second son, Eduard, whom they affectionately called “Tete,” was diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized for most of his adult life. Eduard was fascinated with psychoanalysis and was a big fan of Freud. Although they corresponded in letters, Albert never saw his son again after he immigrated to the U.S. in 1933. Eduard died at the age of 55 in a psychiatric clinic.