Einstein Dates
Einstein's Big Idea
Early Years
Discoveries
Fun Facts
100

This happened in 1905.


What is his miracle year in which 4 amazing papers were published, plus his doctoral thesis.

E = mc2 OK

100
E=
What is mc squared?
100

Einstein wasn't able to do this until he was two years old.

What is talk?

100

Einstein considered this discovery to be his masterpiece.

What is the theory of general relativity?

100

She died at age 43 in child birth.

Who is Emelie du Chatelet?

200

This happened in 1907.

What is, "Who sent an assistant to visit Einstein in the Swiss Patent office?"

200

I proved Newton wrong regarding energy.

Who is Emilie du Chatelet?

Include "du" -> + 100 pt. extra

200

Einstein did not show respect for those people.

What was unusual about how Einstein viewed geology teachers and anyone who taught anything except physics?

200

Einstein urged FDR to build this, hoping to end the war sooner.

What is the atomic bomb?

200

He/She died in 1955.

Who is Albert Einstein?

300

1915.


When did Einstein publish his general theory of relativity?

300

Einstein was amazed with what a magnet did to that device when he was a young boy.

What is a compass?

300

This is Einstein's birthplace.

What is Germany?

300

Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics for this. 

What is the photoelectric effect.?

300

Einstein made a humorous response to this beautiful person's comment.

Who was Marilyn Monroe?

+100 if you can repeat what she said.

400

1921.

When did Einstein receive the Nobel Prize?

400

This basic electromagnetic phenomenon amazed Einstein since he was a teen.

What is light?

400

Oh, that is where Einstein worked when he published those 4 or 5 amazing papers.

What is the Swedish Patent Office?

400

Einstein explained that type of motion, which puzzled chemists and physicists at the time.

What is Brownian motion?

400

That's the planet about which Einstein explained it's slightly aberrant motion.

What is Mercury?

500

1927 & 1929.

When did Georges Lemaitre publish on the expanding universe (Big Bang) and also when did Hubble observe the predicted red-shift of light with galaxies - indicating that they were all moving away from us and hence the universe was indeed expanding?

500

That person and date would be for Einstein's general theory being supported by an eclipse of the sun.

Who is Sir Arthur Eddington in 1919?

100 pt. Bonus for "Sir"

500

Einstein played this musical instrument.

What is the violin?

500

Name one of the two people who also published on the special theory of relativity before Einstein.

Who are Henri Poincare or Hendrik Lorentz?

Either will suffice - both gives a 200 pt. bonus.

500

That explanation about a cat was intended to show that quantum mechanics wasn't logical.

What is Schrodinger's cat?