Albert Einstein was a pretty smart guy. When you look up the word "genius" in the dictionary, so the saying goes, it's a pretty safe bet you'll see Einstein's mug. Think you’re smart enough to take on a quiz about the famed thinker?
When Einstein was 5 years old, his father showed him something that inspired him to be interested in science. What was it?
a compass
a calculator
a telescope
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Einstein claimed that seeing his father's compass left a "deep and lasting impression" on him.
a set of Einstein's documents, thought to be lost in a fire, that were rediscovered in the 1960s
four papers that Einstein published in 1905, which are thought to be among his greatest works
papers that Einstein published when he was only 16 that ended up being the basis for the theory of relativity
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In 1905, the "Annalen der Physik" published four papers by Einstein -- they introduced, in part, the special theory of relativity and his ideas on the photoelectric effect and Brownian motion.
According to the book "Einstein in Love," what was Einstein's "Woody Allen moment"?
One night at a jazz bar in Berlin, a drunken Einstein played a clarinet solo for the crowd.
Before marrying his second wife, he actually considered wedding her daughter instead.
He made a short film about his failed love affairs.
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In 1919, shortly after divorcing his first wife, Einstein married Elsa Lowenthal, who was his cousin. But apparently he had wanted to marry her daughter, Ilse, first.