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1. Albert Einstein renounced his German citizenship for what reason?
to protest the Nazi regime
to protest the Kaiser's regime
a severe beer and sausage allergy
to avoid military service
2. The famous expression "God does not play dice" was Einstein's objection to what?
Heisenburg's uncertainty principle
Godel's incompleteness theorem
Sartre's entire oeuvre
gambling
3. Why did Einstein end up working at the Patent Office?
He could not find a teaching position.
He was bored by the academic community.
The Patent Office was actually a prestigious place to work back then.
He'd been ostracized from the academic community after renouncing his German citizenship
4. Albert Einstein's 1910 paper on "critical opalescence" explained, amongst other things, what?
Why pure light is white
Why the grass is green
Why the sky is blue
Why the wife is always with the nagging
5. What concept, which Einstein proposed to explain why the universe was NOT expanding, did he later call the one of the biggest mistakes of his career?
lumineferous aether
phlogiston
the cosmological constant
the heritability of acquired characteristics
6. In what year did Albert Einstein win the Nobel Prize for physics?
1901
1911
1921
although nominated many times, he never won
7. What was the Bose-Einstein condensate, which was not discovered until seventy years after its conception?
The illegitimate love child of Einstein and the wife of Indian physicist S. Bose
what's left over in matter after you cook off all the bosons
a special state of matter that only exists at supercool temperatures
a special state of matter that only exists when you're not looking
8. Einstein's mother objected to his marriage to his wife Elsa on what grounds?
too old
too sickly
too Serbian
all of the above
9. In Germany in the 1930's, Nobel laureates led a campaign to what?
have Einstein officially forgiven for not serving in World War I
finally give Einstein a Nobel Prize
have Einstein canonized as a saint
denounce Einstein's theories as "Jewish Physics"
10. Albert Einstein wrote many non-scientific papers arguing for what?
one world government
socialism
handing over nuclear weapons to the United Nations
all of the above



 
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