Class 9 English - A Truly Beautiful Mind - MERIT YARD PANDWA
Class 9 English - A Truly Beautiful Mind - MERIT YARD
1 / 40Who is the subject of the lesson 'A Truly Beautiful Mind'?
A) Albert Einstein
B) Isaac Newton
C) Stephen Hawking
D) Thomas Edison
2 / 40When was Albert Einstein born?
A) 14 March 1889
B) 14 March 1879
C) 15 April 1879
D) 14 May 1879
3 / 40Where was Einstein born?
A) Munich
B) Zurich
C) Ulm, Germany
D) Berlin
4 / 40Einstein's mother thought he was a ______.
A) Genius
B) Lazy boy
C) Helper
D) Freak
5 / 40Einstein did not start speaking until he was ______ years old.
A) Two-and-a-half
B) Three
C) Four
D) Five
6 / 40What did Einstein's playmates call him?
A) Brother Smart
B) Brother Boring
C) Brother Silent
D) Brother Fast
7 / 40What kind of toys did Einstein especially love?
A) Soft toys
B) Wooden toys
C) Mechanical toys
D) Electric toys
8 / 40A headmaster once told Einstein's father that Einstein would ______.
A) Become a scientist
B) Be very rich
C) Rule the world
D) Never make a success at anything
9 / 40Einstein learned to play the ______ at the age of six.
A) Violin
B) Piano
C) Flute
D) Guitar
10 / 40Why did Einstein leave the school in Munich for good?
A) He failed the exams
B) He felt stifled by the strict regimentation
C) He was bullied
D) His father lost his job
11 / 40Einstein wanted to continue his study in ______ Switzerland.
A) German-speaking
B) English-speaking
C) French-speaking
D) Italian-speaking
12 / 40Einstein was highly gifted in ______ and interested in physics.
A) Chemistry
B) History
C) Arts
D) Mathematics
13 / 40Who was Mileva Maric?
A) Einstein's fellow student and future wife
B) Einstein's sister
C) Einstein's teacher
D) Einstein's cousin
14 / 40Mileva Maric had come to Switzerland because the University in ______ allowed women to get degrees.
A) Munich
B) Zurich
C) Berlin
D) Ulm
15 / 40Einstein graduated from the university in which year?
A) 1900
B) 1905
C) 1915
D) 1921
16 / 40In 1902, Einstein finally secured a job as a ______ in Bern.
A) Professor
B) Engineer
C) Technical expert in the patent office
D) Clerk
17 / 40What did Einstein call his desk drawer at work jokingly?
A) Bureau of theoretical physics
B) Box of magic
C) The black hole
D) Desk of dreams
18 / 40Einstein's famous paper in 1905 was on 'Special Theory of ______'.
A) Motion
B) Light
C) Gravity
D) Relativity
19 / 40In Einstein's famous formula $E=mc^2$, what does 'c' stand for?
A) Speed of light in vacuum
B) Speed of sound
C) Current
D) Constant of gravity
20 / 40When did Albert and Mileva get married?
A) 1900
B) 1905
C) January 1903
D) 1919
21 / 40Why was Einstein's mother against his marriage to Mileva?
A) Because Mileva was three years older than Albert
B) Because Mileva was poor
C) Because Mileva was from Serbia
D) Because Mileva didn't like science
22 / 40When did Einstein and Mileva get divorced?
A) 1910
B) 1915
C) 1905
D) 1919
23 / 40Whom did Einstein marry in the same year as his divorce?
A) A teacher
B) His student
C) His cousin Elsa
D) A famous artist
24 / 40Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity in ______.
A) 1905
B) 1915
C) 1921
D) 1933
25 / 40An eclipse of the ______ in 1919 proved that Einstein's theory was correct.
A) Sun
B) Moon
C) Earth
D) Mars
26 / 40Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics in which year?
A) 1905
B) 1915
C) 1933
D) 1921
27 / 40When the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, Einstein emigrated to ______.
A) UK
B) USA
C) France
D) Switzerland
28 / 40Discovery of ______ in Berlin caused an uproar among American physicists.
A) Gravity
B) Relativity
C) Nuclear fission
D) Electricity
29 / 40To whom did Einstein write a letter in 1939 warning about the atomic bomb?
A) Franklin D. Roosevelt
B) Winston Churchill
C) Adolf Hitler
D) Mahatma Gandhi
30 / 40America dropped the atomic bombs on which Japanese cities in 1945?
A) Tokyo and Osaka
B) Kyoto and Nara
C) Hiroshima and Nagasaki
D) Yokohama and Nagoya
31 / 40Einstein was deeply shaken by the ______ caused by atomic bombs.
A) Expense
B) Noise
C) Destruction
D) Light
32 / 40Einstein proposed the formation of a ______ government to the United Nations.
A) World
B) European
C) Asian
D) National
33 / 40Einstein campaigned for peace and ______ in his later years.
A) Science
B) War
C) Democracy
D) Physics
34 / 40In which year did Albert Einstein die?
A) 1945
B) 1965
C) 1921
D) 1955
35 / 40Einstein died at the age of ______.
A) 86
B) 76
C) 66
D) 96
36 / 40The newspapers proclaimed Einstein's work as a '______ revolution'.
A) Political
B) Scientific
C) Atomic
D) Space
37 / 40Einstein is celebrated as a '______ citizen' as much as a scientific genius.
A) German
B) American
C) World
D) Zurich
38 / 40When Einstein's sister Maja was born, he asked: "Fine, but where are her ______?"
A) Toys
B) Hands
C) Wheels
D) Eyes
39 / 40Einstein's head was ______ in size when he was a child.
A) Small
B) Normal
C) Much too large
D) Long
40 / 40Einstein used to repeat every word ______ when he learned to speak.
A) Loudly
B) Twice
C) Thrice
D) Incorrectly
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