| #9267, aired 2025-02-11 | 20th CENTURY NOTABLES $400: He said his "greatest blunder" was the insertion of the cosmological constant into his theory of general relativity Einstein |
| #9262, aired 2025-02-04 | HERE'S 2 "U"! $400: Albert Einstein once said, "I never think of" this, "it comes soon enough" the future |
| #30, aired 2025-01-29 | 5 SLICES OF PI $300: Princeton U. has celebrated Pi Day in recent years by inviting kids to participate in a look-alike contest of this scientist Einstein |
| #9230, aired 2024-12-20 | POP CULTURE PHYSICS $1600: Jane Foster likens the Asgardian Bifrost to an Einstein-Rosen Bridge, but Thor says it's more like this kind of bridge a Rainbow Bridge |
| #9184, aired 2024-10-17 | PLANTED BY $400: The Haifa grounds of the Technion, Israel's Stanford or M.I.T., have a tree planted in 1923 by this visiting Jewish scientist Einstein |
| #9174, aired 2024-10-03 | IT'S TECHNICAL $400: Einstein patented an innovative refrigerator but couldn't sell it after DuPont came up with this "Fr"eezing stuff Freon |
| #9091, aired 2024-04-29 | GREATER THAN, LESS THAN OR EQUAL TO $800: Introduced by Einstein in 1905, it's been called "the most famous equation in the world" E=mc2 |
| #9062, aired 2024-03-19 | CLASSICAL MUSIC IS IN SESSION $1600: The New York Times called this piece with a name in the title "Beethoven's trifle... featured on Baby Einstein albums" "Für Elise" |
| #9035, aired 2024-02-09 | 21st CENTURY SCIENCE $400: In 2015 gravitational waves were first directly observed after this man predicted them a century earlier Einstein |
| #9028, aired 2024-01-31 | OPERA $2000: The first in a trilogy of operas by Philip Glass about great men who changed the world was him "On the Beach" Einstein |
| #8976, aired 2023-11-20 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1600: This physicist born in Ulm, Bavaria just made it into the top 100 elements by a hair; he's No. 99 Einstein |
| #8973, aired 2023-11-15 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $400: Funnyman director Melvin Kaminsky & funnyman director Albert Einstein Brooks |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | SCIENTISTS' RHYME TIME $300: Theory of relativity developer Albert's cabernets & merlots (try the E = mc2 Chardonnay--it's da bomb!) Einstein's wines |
| #15, aired 2023-10-04 | EUROPEAN COUNTRY NICKNAMES $800: "The Land of Poets & Thinkers"
(Hey Einstein, it's pronounced "GUR-tuh" , not "GO-thee") Germany |
| #8887, aired 2023-06-06 | QUOTABLE NOTABLES $600: A physicist:
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything" Einstein |
| #19, aired 2023-05-24 | IN THE WORLD CAPITAL $1,000 (Daily Double): The Zytglogge tower & astronomical clock, which inspired Einstein & his special theory of relativity Bern |
| #8862, aired 2023-05-02 | WORLD CITIES $2000: You can study physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in this city, like 1900 grad Albert Einstein did Zurich |
| #8850, aired 2023-04-14 | ANAGRAMMED SCIENTISTS $400: He changed the world through physics:
LENT INEBRIATES Albert Einstein |
| #8822, aired 2023-03-07 | RECENT COMMERCIALS $1200: After playing Scrooge for Verizon ads, this Oscar nominee returned in the guise of Einstein for the company Paul Giamatti |
| #8767, aired 2022-12-20 | WHAT A STEAL! $400: After his 1955 death this physicist could not have sung "If I Only Had A Brain", as some of it went to a pathologist's home in Wichita Albert Einstein |
| #8749, aired 2022-11-24 | HISTORICAL FICTION $1200: Marie Benedict tells of Mileva Maric, a physicist in her own right, who lived in her husband's shadow in "The Other" this surname Einstein |
| #8742, aired 2022-11-15 | ZOOM BACKGROUNDS OF HISTORIC PEOPLE $1000: OK Einstein, we see your Nobel Prize specifically for studying this effect, direct conversion of light energy into current the photoelectric effect |
| #8721, aired 2022-10-17 | HERE'S YOUR SCIENCE PRIZE $400: The 2021 Einstein Prize went to Clifford Martin Will & Saul Teukolsky for "contributions to observational tests of general" this relativity |
| #8667, aired 2022-06-21 | TRANSPLANTS $400: As the Nazis rose to power, this scientist decided in Dec. 1932 to leave Germany; he never returned after moving to Princeton Einstein |
| #8664, aired 2022-06-16 | IT'S ALL RELATIVITY $1200: Einstein first stated the concept now summed up in this formula, just 5 symbols, in a short paper often called an afterthought E=MC2 |
| #8642, aired 2022-05-17 | MY NAME IS A PALINDROME $200: Funny guys with this palindromic first name include Newhart & Einstein (also known as Super Dave Osborne) Bob |
| #8537, aired 2021-12-21 | OPERA $1200: Composer Philip Glass said his work this man "on the Beach" is "an opera about a great mathematician who loved music" Einstein |
| #8532, aired 2021-12-14 | A LECTURER $200: Einstein lectured that this enjoys "esteem above all other sciences" because "its laws are... certain & indisputable" mathematics |
| #8511, aired 2021-11-15 | WORLD COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Don't think you'll coast through this subject "for beginners" at ETH Zurich; Einstein flunked it physics |
| #8509, aired 2021-11-11 | DOGGONE CINEMA $800: This scientist has a pooch named Einstein who becomes the first time-traveler in "Back to the Future" Doc Brown |
| #8478, aired 2021-09-29 | I NOMINATE YOU FOR A NOBEL PRIZE! $400: How sweet! In 1919 Max Planck & this other German physicist nominated each other for Nobel prizes Einstein |
| #8457, aired 2021-08-03 | DEFINITELY NOT ONE OF THE 50 U.S. STATES $800: States of it include plasma & the Bose-Einstein condensate matter |
| #8366, aired 2021-03-29 | THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS $1200: Roger Penrose won in 2020 for showing these in space are a consequence of general relativity, though Einstein doubted they exist a black hole |
| #8344, aired 2021-02-25 | ON THE SUBJECT $200: He's the subject of the biography subtitled "The Man, the Genius, & the Theory of Relativity" Albert Einstein |
| #8324, aired 2021-01-28 | SCIENCE CLASS $400: "m" represents this in Einstein's equation E=mc2 mass |
| #8298, aired 2020-12-09 | KEN JENNINGS KNOWS THE G.O.A.T. (GREATEST OF ALL TIME) $200: (Ken Jennings presents the clue.) The greatest minds of all time include Einstein, of course, Isaac Newton, & this woman, a student of mathematics, physics & chemistry, & also the first to win a Nobel Prize Marie Curie |
| #8284, aired 2020-11-19 | THESE ARE THE DAYS $1000: "No" these pieces of clothing day is May 8; Albert Einstein would have reveled in it socks |
| #8220, aired 2020-05-22 | PHYSICS $400: Einstein formed 2 theories of relativity: general relativity & this one the special |
| #8183, aired 2020-03-18 | BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS $2,800 (Daily Double): Biographies by Walter Isaacson include "Steve Jobs" & one about this man subtitled ' "His Life and Universe" Albert Einstein |
| #8145, aired 2020-01-24 | THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON $400: In 1919 the society was able to confirm Einstein's theory of general relativity by photographing this event you shouldn't stare at a solar eclipse |
| #8102, aired 2019-11-26 | MUSICAL QUOTES $400: A talented violinist, he said, "If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music" Einstein |
| #8085, aired 2019-11-01 | FEEL THE BERN! $1200: Tour the 2nd floor apt. of Kramgasse 49 where this scientist began to live in 1903 & did some incredible work, relatively speaking Einstein |
| #8042, aired 2019-07-23 | THE 40-YEAR-OLD GERMAN $400: His work got a good review in the Times of London in 1919:
"New Theory of the Universe--Newtonian Ideas Overthrown" Einstein |
| #8034, aired 2019-07-11 | PHYSICS $2000: Magnetism is "action at" this; Einstein added "spooky" to dismiss the weird phenomenon quantum entanglement distance |
| #8017, aired 2019-06-18 | THINKING OUT LOUD $400: In a 1945 speech this physicist said, "The war is won, but the peace is not" Einstein |
| #8002, aired 2019-05-28 | 1950s PEOPLE $400: Israel offered this physicist the presidency in 1952; feeling he didn't have the personality for the job, he declined Einstein |
| #7895, aired 2018-12-28 | MY BAD! $400: Einstein said his "biggest blunder" was creating the cosmological constant to deny this alliterative theory the Big Bang |
| #7847, aired 2018-10-23 | I GO TO FAMOUS PERSON HIGH SCHOOL $600: Kensington, Md. kids! No pressure living up to this scientist who had an annus mirabilis ("year of marvels") in 1905 Albert Einstein |
| #7844, aired 2018-10-18 | ONE-LETTER RESPONSES $4,000 (Daily Double): Einstein used it to denote the speed of light c |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | FRIEND LIKE ME $400: This physicist wrote a foreword to the bio of his German pal Emanuel Lasker, world chess champ from 1896 to 1921 Einstein |
| #7835, aired 2018-10-05 | CONTEMPORARIES $2000: While China's dowager empress Tzu Hsi helped instigate the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, he formulated quantum theory Max Planck |
| #7810, aired 2018-07-20 | FAMOUS JEWISH AMERICANS $1200: This scientist became an American citizen in 1940 but also retained his Swiss citizenship Einstein |
| #7753, aired 2018-05-02 | SURPRISING MUSICIANS $200: His second wife Elsa said he played Mozart beautifully & that playing helped with his theories Albert Einstein |
| #7678, aired 2018-01-17 | WORLD CAPITALS $800: Among the many sights to see in this capital is the home where Albert Einstein lived from 1903 to 1905 Bern, Switzerland |
| #7662, aired 2017-12-26 | HIS OWN MUSEUM $400: Oddly, the only U.S. museum devoted to this physicist is tucked inside a woolens shop in Princeton, New Jersey Einstein |
| #7650, aired 2017-12-08 | STAGE NAME'S THE SAME $400: Funnyman directory Melvin Kaminsky & funnyman director Albert Einstein Brooks |
| #7644, aired 2017-11-30 | "K"9 $1600: Einstein said, "Imagination is more important than" this (he had a lot of both) knowledge |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | GENIUS. $600: Einstein imagined the motion of these units of matter and gave the first experimental proof of their existence in 1905 atoms |
| #7527, aired 2017-05-09 | GENIUS. $800: Suspecting Communism, before admitting Einstein to the U.S., the FBI interrogated him at the insistence of this director J. Edgar Hoover |
| #7513, aired 2017-04-19 | 1930s AMERICA $2,200 (Daily Double): In 1933 Albert Einstein renounced his German citizenship & relocated to 2 Library Place in this U.S. city Princeton |
| #7499, aired 2017-03-30 | DEAD BUT STILL EARNING IN 2016 $600: Raking in $11.5 million 61 years after passing away? This physicist really was a genius! Albert Einstein |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | STAR TALK WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $400: (Neil deGrasse Tyson shows an astronomical animation on the monitor.) Our GPS satellites experience less gravity than we do here on Earth's surface so their clocks tick a bit faster... but engineers pre-correct the GPS time for Einstein's general theory of this relativity |
| #7436, aired 2017-01-02 | STAR TALK WITH NEIL deGRASSE TYSON $1,000 (Daily Double): (Neil deGrasse Tyson demonstrates by bending a piece of paper.) Involving the folding or warping of both space & time, future space travel could be aided by theoretical shortcuts called Einstein-Rosen bridges, AKA these wormholes |
| #7387, aired 2016-10-25 | MAGAZINES $400: SA for short, in 1950 it published an article by Albert Einstein "On the Generalized Theory of Gravitation" Scientific American |
| #7383, aired 2016-10-19 | THAT EXPLAINS IT $400: In this physicist's 1910 research paper on opalescence he also explained why the sky is blue Einstein |
| #7379, aired 2016-10-13 | TV THEMES $400: An expanded version of this sitcom's theme song mentions "music and mythology, Einstein and astrology" The Big Bang Theory |
| #7346, aired 2016-07-18 | MAN-AGRAMS $400: A physicist:
ELITE BRAIN NEST Albert Einstein |
| #7328, aired 2016-06-22 | EMMY TIME $2000: In 1969 Steve Martin & Bob Einstein (aka Super Dave Osborne) won for writing these rhyming siblings' "Comedy Hour" the Smothers Brothers |
| #7318, aired 2016-06-08 | GREAT SCOTS $2000: Einstein called this Scot's influence on physics "the most profound and the most fruitful" since Newton's (James Clerk) Maxwell |
| #7274, aired 2016-04-07 | EXPERIMENTS $800: Gravitational waves from 2 black holes were found to be little waves described as these in space-time, validating Einstein ripples |
| #7268, aired 2016-03-30 | DEALER'S CHOICE $800: Pablo Picasso said that "the genius of" this man "leads to Hiroshima" (Albert) Einstein |
| #7237, aired 2016-02-16 | SURNAMES $400: You don't have to be a scientist to know that it's German for "one stone" Einstein |
| #7231, aired 2016-02-08 | COLLEGE TOWNS $600: From 1936 until his death, Albert Einstein lived in a house on Mercer Street in this college town Princeton |
| #7207, aired 2016-01-05 | DOWNRIGHT BEASTLY $1,000 (Daily Double): These theoretical passageways are sometimes referred to as Einstein-Rosen bridges wormholes |
| #7181, aired 2015-11-30 | PHYSICISTS $400: Einstein wrote a book on this because "if I do not, the theory will not be understood, simple though it is" the theory of relativity |
| #7176, aired 2015-11-23 | IN THE STATE'S HALL OF FAME $200: Bill Bradley & Albert Einstein are in this state's Hall of Fame New Jersey |
| #7128, aired 2015-09-16 | BREAKFAST $200: Head to Einstein Bros. for one of these, maybe onion or poppyseed; shmear options for it include garlic herb a bagel |
| #7114, aired 2015-07-16 | 20th CENTURY NAMES $400: On Aug. 2, 1939 this scientist wrote to the U.S. president to recommend that atom bombs be made, to his later regret Einstein |
| #7073, aired 2015-05-20 | NEW TWISTS ON JEOPARDY! FAVORITES $400: 250+ clues on this German-American physicist, but none mentioned that he didn't wear socks (the big toe always makes a hole) Einstein |
| #7039, aired 2015-04-02 | DIE ANOTHER DAY $2,000 (Daily Double): April 18, 1955
in Princeton, New Jersey Einstein |
| #6944, aired 2014-11-20 | SUBATOMIC $1200: In a 1905 paper Einstein was the first to theorize about these, also called light quanta photons |
| #6889, aired 2014-07-24 | THE GENIUS BAR $400: He was 26 in 1905, his "miracle year" in which he published 4 papers altering the course of modern physics Einstein |
| #6849, aired 2014-05-29 | ENDS IN "SS" $1000: In 1901 this became Albert Einstein's new nationality Swiss |
| #6848, aired 2014-05-28 | LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABRATORY $800: (Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Los Alamos Nat'l Laboratory in New Mexico.) When Trident is active, its three beams produce in 500 quadrillionths of a second the equivalent of 200 times the electrical output capacity of the U.S.; it's a type of this beam device first suggested by Einstein a laser |
| #6831, aired 2014-05-05 | A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME $3,400 (Daily Double): Following Einstein, in 1908 Hermann Minkowski proposed the idea of 4-dimensional this hyphenated term space-time |
| #6767, aired 2014-02-04 | RUN EMC $400: E=mc2 was conceived by this man Einstein |
| #6738, aired 2013-12-25 | 13-LETTER WORDS $2000: Explained by Einstein in 1905, this "effect" of light on subatomic particles is fundamental to modern physics photoelectric |
| #6736, aired 2013-12-23 | RADIOASTRONOMY $1600: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents the clue from the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia.) In 2013, Green Bank scientists, using the Byrd telescope, found possible signs of these waves, ripples in space-time that were predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity nearly a century before gravity waves |
| #6730, aired 2013-12-13 | BEHIND EVERY GREAT MAN $800: Here's Albert Einstein & co. in front of this type of facility on Mt. Wilson an observatory |
| #6716, aired 2013-11-25 | HUSBANDS & WIVES $1200: When he divorced first wife Mileva in 1919, he promised to give her the money if he ever won a Nobel Prize (he won & paid) Albert Einstein |
| #6679, aired 2013-10-03 | INFLUENTIAL WRITING $600: In 1920 English readers could tackle Einstein's "Relativity:" these 2 theories, "A Popular Exposition" Special and General |
| #6654, aired 2013-07-18 | BABY REGISTRY ITEMS $1000: Heads up! It's the smart line of developmental products that features the image seen here on its logo Baby Einstein |
| #6615, aired 2013-05-24 | 'N '39 $800: In October FDR became pen pals with this physicist over the possibility of an atomic bomb Einstein |
| #6559, aired 2013-03-07 | MARRY LAND $2000: Albert Einstein & Milena Maric, January 6, 1903 Switzerland |
| #6554, aired 2013-02-28 | CHEW, CHEW $400: Kaiser Wilhelm II & Albert Einstein were fans of these chewy "ursine" sweets gummy bears |
| #6512, aired 2013-01-01 | NEW YEAR'S RESOLUTIONS $600: I want to be more scholarly: I will critique "The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time" by this physicist Stephen Hawking |
| #6499, aired 2012-12-13 | GERMAN "E" $400: This scientist's name can be literally translated as "one stone" Einstein |
| #6484, aired 2012-11-22 | DEAD, BUT VERY BUSY $1000: This scientist died in 1955 but his good name (& image) raked in $10 million in 2011 Albert Einstein |
| #6439, aired 2012-09-20 | THAT'S IN CREDIBLE! $800: Rejecting the quantum physics world view, Einstein wrote that God doesn't play with these dice |
| #6390, aired 2012-06-01 | PHYSICS $400: In 1935 he argued in the "EPR Paper" (he was the "E") that quantum mechanics wasn't a complete theory Einstein |
| #6346, aired 2012-04-02 | AMERICAN COMPOSERS $2000: The opera "Einstein on the Beach" was a collaboration between Robert Wilson & this composer (Philip) Glass |
| #6302, aired 2012-01-31 | BEFORE THEY WERE FAMOUS $800 (Daily Double): In 1902 he got fired as a tutor, but family friend Marcel Grossman helped him get a job as a Swiss patent clerk Einstein |
| #6292, aired 2012-01-17 | YOU MIGHT "B" HUNGRY $200: Einstein Bros & Noah's are chains that specialize in these round breakfast items--do you want some shmear? bagels |
| #6228, aired 2011-10-19 | IT'S IN THE PAPERS $400: A book from Princeton Univ. Press is titled his "Miraculous Year: Five Papers That Changed the Face of Physics" Einstein |
| #6145, aired 2011-05-06 | THEIR MAIN MUSICAL INSTRUMENT $800: Albert Einstein the violin |
| #6144, aired 2011-05-05 | SCIENTISTS $2000: He discovered that the observed frequency of light waves is affected by the relative motion of the source & detector Doppler |
| #6118, aired 2011-03-30 | GET SMART $1600: Excess weight can interfere with this hormone, raising risk of diabetes & impairing brain function--so hit the gym, Einstein insulin |
| #6040, aired 2010-12-10 | REAL NAMES OF CELEBS $1000: The voice of Marlin in "Finding Nemo", he was born with the name Albert Einstein Albert Brooks |
| #5996, aired 2010-10-11 | STRING THEORY 201 $400: String theory attempts to merge quantum mechanics with Einstein's general theory of this relativity |
| #5995, aired 2010-10-08 | THE COLOR OF MONEY $400: Israel's 1968 5-lira banknote showed this scientist in green & white next to a blue & orange cloud of atoms Einstein |
| #5970, aired 2010-07-23 | MAX FACTOR $400: He studied physics at the Univ. of Munich with Prof. Von Jolly & got his doctoral degree in 1879 (the year of Einstein's birth) Max Planck |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | THE QUOTABLE EINSTEIN $200: "Life is like riding" one of these; "to keep your balance you must keep moving" a bicycle |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | THE QUOTABLE EINSTEIN $400: This "is more important than knowledge" imagination |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | THE QUOTABLE EINSTEIN $600: "I never think of" this period of time. "It comes soon enough" the future |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | THE QUOTABLE EINSTEIN $800: This "cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding" peace |
| #5966, aired 2010-07-19 | THE QUOTABLE EINSTEIN $1000: "As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power," this "is inevitable" war |
| #5920, aired 2010-05-14 | CONTEMPORARIES $200: Picasso was in his rose period in 1905, this physicist's so-called miracle year Einstein |
| #5876, aired 2010-03-15 | A PIECE OF HISTORY $400: Hebrew university has his archives--digitized, too, so you can see his notes on relativity in his hand Einstein |
| #5865, aired 2010-02-26 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY $5,000 (Daily Double): In 1935 he bought a house at 112 Mercer Street in Princeton, New Jersey Einstein |
| #5838, aired 2010-01-20 | SCIENTISTS $800: Einstein said this 17th & 18th c. physicist "stands before us, strong, certain and alone" Isaac Newton |
| #5824, aired 2009-12-31 | SCIENTISTS $400: His first teaching job came "relatively" early--in 1909, as an assistant prof. of physics at the Univ. of Zurich Einstein |
| #5765, aired 2009-10-09 | SPEAK UP! $2,800 (Daily Double): A Nobel Prize winner: "Don't worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater" Einstein |
| #5749, aired 2009-09-17 | SCIENTISTS $3,000 (Daily Double): Time magazine's "Person of the Century", this scientist first appeared on its cover in 1929 Albert Einstein |
| #5724, aired 2009-06-25 | SHEER CHAOS $800: In a 1926 letter this physicist wrote that he was convinced God "does not throw dice" Einstein |
| #5717, aired 2009-06-16 | ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS $800: The one that's not a letter in Einstein's famous relativity equation X |
| #5705, aired 2009-05-29 | SCIENCE $200: He was in Shanghai in 1921 when he found out he had won a Nobel Prize for Physics Einstein |
| #5681, aired 2009-04-27 | HERTZ SO GOOD $2000: In the 1880s Hertz observed the photoelectric effect, for which this famous man would win a Nobel in 1921 Einstein |
| #5609, aired 2009-01-15 | DANCE! $800: Paint-store clerk/ disco king Tony Manero was no Einstein in this '77 movie, but the chicks dug him Saturday Night Fever |
| #5591, aired 2008-12-22 | SCIENCE & NATURE $1600: In science a big M can mean mach, & a little m this, as in Einstein's most famous equation mass |
| #5568, aired 2008-11-19 | THE REAL WORLD $2000: Edwin Hubble confirmed this German's view that the universe is expanding, not static Einstein |
| #5536, aired 2008-10-06 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $800: Albert Einstein gave a series of lectures on the theory of relativity at this N.J. school's McCosh Hall in 1921 Princeton |
| #5533, aired 2008-10-01 | MAN-AGRAMS $1000: This scientist co-wrote the book "Why War?" with Sigmund Freud:
TEN ELITE BRAINS Albert Einstein |
| #5524, aired 2008-09-18 | ACCELERATOR $400: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls the control room of the Stanford Linear Accelerator in Menlo Park, CA.) A detector identifies each particle produced in the accelerator, computing its charge & this measurement that Einstein related to energy mass |
| #5491, aired 2008-06-23 | SPORTS STUFF $1200: This quarterback of broken leg fame: "Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein" (Joe) Theismann |
| #5455, aired 2008-05-02 | SCIENCE GUYS $200: Born in Germany in 1879, he fled to America in 1932 & became a U.S. citizen in 1940 Einstein |
| #5390, aired 2008-02-01 | MEDICAL SCHOOL $2000: My son the obstetrician went to the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at the Univ. named for a Jewish academy Yeshiva |
| #5381, aired 2008-01-21 | 2007 BESTSELLERS $600: Walter Isaacson's biography of this scientist was based on the subject's personal letters Albert Einstein |
| #5379, aired 2008-01-17 | BLACK HOLES $1200: Black holes are thought to emit a weak form of radiation named for this physicist Stephen Hawking |
| #5367, aired 2008-01-01 | A STAR IS REBORN? $200: Albert Brooks was born with this surname; you might say it was all relativity Einstein |
| #5346, aired 2007-12-03 | THE FIRST WIVES CLUB $2,000 (Daily Double): His first wife was a physicist named Mileva Maric; after WWI he married his cousin Elsa [Albert] Einstein |
| #5327, aired 2007-11-06 | SCIENTISTS $1200: Einstein unsuccessfully attempted to refute this man's uncertainty principle Heisenberg |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | FISSION $600: In fission, total mass decreases because part of the original mass is converted to this, as seen in Einstein's equation energy |
| #5326, aired 2007-11-05 | FISSION $1000: Einstein's letter to FDR about the possibility of fission bombs mentions the work of this Italian-born physicist (Enrico) Fermi |
| #5316, aired 2007-10-22 | STEIN TIME $400: In 1902 he took a job in the patent office in Bern, Switzerland; 19 years later, he won a Nobel prize Einstein |
| #5301, aired 2007-10-01 | COMPLETES THE OPERA $2000: Philip Glass:
"____ on the Beach" Einstein |
| #5285, aired 2007-07-27 | STUDENT & TEACHER $400: Hermann Minkowski taught him math in the 1890s & couldn't believe it when he became a great scientist (Albert) Einstein |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | EINSTEIN & FRIENDS $400: In 1939 Leo Szilard told Einstein about this type of "reaction" in uranium, & Al said, "I never thought of that!" a chain reaction |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | EINSTEIN & FRIENDS $800: Al called Georges Lemaitre's idea, now called the Big Bang, "the most beautiful ...explanation of" this word creation |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | EINSTEIN & FRIENDS $1200: Here Einstein is welcomed to Los Angeles by Robert Millikan, a top scientist at this school from 1921 to 1945 Caltech |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | EINSTEIN & FRIENDS $1600: Al's pal Kurt Godel theorized that it was unfeasible to travel here, but maybe you could send a message back in time |
| #5231, aired 2007-05-14 | EINSTEIN & FRIENDS $2000: The first major physicist to support Albert's ideas, this quantum theory originator was a constant support Max Planck |
| #5230, aired 2007-05-11 | LIBRARIES $400: This scientist's collection at the Jewish National & University Library in Jerusalem includes a lot of limericks Einstein |
| #5208, aired 2007-04-11 | IT'S HARD OUT HERE FOR A PUMP $800: Leo Szilard & this more-famous Euro-American physicist worked together to develop a refrigeration pump Albert Einstein |
| #5204, aired 2007-04-05 | "PAC" RATS $600: Einstein espoused this political philosophy during WWI but later urged Europe to arm against the Nazis pacifism |
| #5141, aired 2007-01-08 | THE BRAIN $600: In 1978 New Jersey Monthly reporter Steven Levy famously found this man's brain Einstein |
| #5107, aired 2006-11-21 | PHYSICS, BRAIN SURGERY & ROCKET SCIENCE $400: Einstein published the special theory of this in 1905; the general theory of it was announced in 1915 relativity |
| #5081, aired 2006-10-16 | SCIENCE GUYS $400: At a 1944 auction a copy of his paper on the special theory of relativity brought a $6.5-mil. pledge in war bonds Einstein |
| #5078, aired 2006-10-11 | SCIENCE STUFF $2000: Einstein's Nobel Prize was for work on this effect in which light absorption leads to electron emission photoelectric effect |
| #5029, aired 2006-06-22 | THE NEW YORK TIMES MOVIE REVIEWS $1600: Vincent Canby said it's Woody Allen's "homage to Tolstoy, Kierkegaard, Einstein, Groucho Marx..." Love and Death |
| #4991, aired 2006-05-01 | ACADEMIA NUTS $200: This physicist worked at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from 1933 until his death in 1955 Einstein |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | KEANU, ASHTON OR EINSTEIN $200: Honored with a star on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame" Keanu |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | KEANU, ASHTON OR EINSTEIN $400: Studied music & the violin at the behest of his mother, Paulina (Albert) Einstein |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | KEANU, ASHTON OR EINSTEIN $600: A high school dropout but later graduated from college Einstein |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | KEANU, ASHTON OR EINSTEIN $800: Studied biochemical engineering in college Ashton (Kutcher) |
| #4937, aired 2006-02-14 | KEANU, ASHTON OR EINSTEIN $1000: Born in Beirut, Lebanon Keanu (Reeves) |
| #4925, aired 2006-01-27 | MAGAZINES $200: The Feb. 18, 1929 issue of Time magazine featured the first of 6 covers devoted to this physicist Einstein |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | RELATIVITY AT 100 $400: Einstein's groundbreaking papers appeared in the German journal Annals of this science founded in 1790 Physics |
| #4879, aired 2005-11-24 | RELATIVITY AT 100 $1200: This property, the middle letter in the familiar version of Einstein's famous equation, grows with velocity mass |
| #4872, aired 2005-11-15 | MEANS OF TRANSMISSION $2000: 1939:
"It may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium" a letter |
| #4846, aired 2005-10-10 | YOU CAN QUOTE ME! $2000: An inventor:
"Genius is one percent inspiration & ninety-nine percent perspiration" Thomas Alva Edison |
| #4786, aired 2005-05-30 | MEN OF SCIENCE $200: In 1933 he joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.; he became a U.S. citizen in 1940 Albert Einstein |
| #4781, aired 2005-05-23 | IT CHANGED THE WORLD $1,600 (Daily Double): The papers that revolutionized modern physics were published in 1905 by a clerk of this city's patent office Bern |
| #4745, aired 2005-04-01 | THE FDR LIBRARY $400: (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the collection room of the FDR Presidential Library in Hyde Park, NY.) The 1939 letter this scientist sent to FDR explains the Big Bang that uranium will have as an energy source (Albert) Einstein |
| #4701, aired 2005-01-31 | THE SCIENCE GEEK $800: This German-born physicist said, "do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics; I can assure you that mine are... greater" Einstein |
| #4684, aired 2005-01-06 | JEOPARDY! KEYWORDS $400: This city was home to our favorite "German-American physicist" for the last 20 years of his life Princeton |
| #4679, aired 2004-12-30 | MEN & WOMEN OF SCIENCE $400: In 1909, after 7 years with the Swiss Patent Office, he became a professor at the University of Zurich Albert Einstein |
| #4668, aired 2004-12-15 | PEOPLE IN THEIR ELEMENT $1200: This physicist born in Ulm, Bavaria just made it into the top 100 elements by a hair; he's No. 99 (Albert) Einstein |
| #4634, aired 2004-10-28 | STATE-LY HOMES $800: The home where Albert Einstein spent his last 20 years is in this state New Jersey |
| #4630, aired 2004-10-22 | AMERICAN HEROES $1200: He's the famous German-American physicist who came up with the nuclear equation E = mc² Albert Einstein |
| #4553, aired 2004-05-26 | "E" MALE $200: This 1921 Nobel Prize winner once remarked that "God is subtle but he is not malicious" Einstein |
| #4545, aired 2004-05-14 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $400: In 1905 at his house in Switzerland, this German physicist wrote his theory of relativity Einstein |
| #4500, aired 2004-03-12 | BORN & DIED $1200: Born in Ulm, Germany in 1879, he died in Princeton, New Jersey in 1955 (Albert) Einstein |
| #4494, aired 2004-03-04 | THE JEOPARDY! TIME MACHINE $800: Einstein? Beethoven? No thanks, I'd rather hang out with Dean, Sammy, Frank & the rest of this group the Rat Pack |
| #4442, aired 2003-12-23 | BOOKS ABOUT SCIENCE $400: Alan Lightman meditated on the nature of time in this physicist's "Dreams" Einstein |
| #4436, aired 2003-12-15 | TIME'S PERSON OF THE YEAR $200: Albert Einstein was the Person of the Century; in 1949 this British statesman was the man of the half-century Winston Churchill |
| #4403, aired 2003-10-29 | SCIENTISTS $1,000 (Daily Double): In 1958 this chemist published his book against nuclear testing called "No More War" Linus Pauling |
| #4376, aired 2003-09-22 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $400: In 1902 he began working at the Swiss Patent Office; his theory of relativity came 3 years later Albert Einstein |
| #4347, aired 2003-06-24 | SLOW DOWN!!!! $1000: (Sofia of the Clue Crew) In Einstein's elegant equation, energy equals mass times this squared speed of light |
| #4306, aired 2003-04-28 | SCIENCE $400: This German-born American physicist won the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics Albert Einstein |
| #4297, aired 2003-04-15 | DON'T THINK TOO HARD $800: This author writes, "...In Germany is a stream called the Vonne. That is the source of my curious name" Kurt Vonnegut |
| #4268, aired 2003-03-05 | SCIENTISTS $1600: In 1888 he became the first director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Berlin Max Planck |
| #4199, aired 2002-11-28 | 20th CENTURY QUOTES $200: This scientist wrote to FDR that "The element uranium may be turned into an important and new source of energy" Einstein |
| #4187, aired 2002-11-12 | COSMOLOGY $1200: In the 1920s Alexander Friedmann's math modified this 1915 theory to allow the universe to expand & contract Einstein's Theory of Relativity |
| #4185, aired 2002-11-08 | SCIENCE $200: His 1905 paper "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies" contained his special theory of relativity Albert Einstein |
| #4160, aired 2002-10-04 | HISTORIC NAMES $1200: This 1909 Nobel Prize winner once failed the entrance exams at the Univ. of Bologna, Italy Guglielmo Marconi |
| #4115, aired 2002-06-21 | 20th CENTURY SCIENTISTS $800: In 1952, when Chaim Weizmann died, this scientist was invited to succeed him as president of Israel but he declined Einstein |
| #4093, aired 2002-05-22 | BEFORE & AFTER $800: Bill Cosby cartoon character who published a theory of relativity Fat Albert Einstein |
| #4085, aired 2002-05-10 | PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS $1600: To apply relativity to the cosmos, Einstein introduced a term called the "cosmological" this constant |
| #4083, aired 2002-05-08 | STRAIN THY BRAIN $400: The eyes of E.T. were modeled on those of this 1921 Nobel Prize winner Einstein |
| #4070, aired 2002-04-19 | NEW JERSEY EXITS $400: Nuclear geniuses, avoid Princeton! Both Oppenheimer & this man, who proposed relativity at age 26, died there Einstein |
| #4049, aired 2002-03-21 | FRAGILE-SOUNDING NAMES $2000: He's the American composer of "Einstein on the Beach" (Philip) Glass |
| #4025, aired 2002-02-15 | "I" AYE $600: Albert Einstein once remarked that this ability to visualize "is more important than knowledge" imagination |
| #3980, aired 2001-12-14 | MULTIPLY $2000: Have plenty of zeroes on hand when using Einstein's equation of energy with mass multiplied by this, squared speed of light |
| #3945, aired 2001-10-26 | PHYSICISTS $400: New data seem to confirm the "negative gravity" that this 20th century genius proposed & then abandoned Albert Einstein |
| #3938, aired 2001-10-17 | U.S. MEMORIALS $400: A memorial to him, seen here, is at the National Academy of Sciences Albert Einstein |
| #3930, aired 2001-10-05 | STEPHEN HAWKING $200: Stephen has been called "the greatest theoretical physicist since" this physicist born in 1879 Albert Einstein |
| #3917, aired 2001-09-18 | THEY WROTE FOR BRITANNICA $200: As he found the time to write an article in 1926, Britannica found space for it under "space-time" Einstein |
| #3865, aired 2001-05-25 | GAMING $200: Hazard is a centuries-old game using these, which Einstein thought God doesn't play with dice |
| #3842, aired 2001-04-24 | SUBATOMIC PARTICLES $200: Bosons are named for Satyendra Bose, who with this German-American genius described their behavior Albert Einstein |
| #3836, aired 2001-04-16 | MADE-UP HISTORIC NICKNAMES $200: 1879-1955:
"Dr. Frizzyhead" Albert Einstein |
| #3828, aired 2001-04-04 | SCIENCE $1000: The element named for him wasn't one of the ones he left a gap for in the periodic table; it came in at 101 Dmitri Mendeleev |
| #3821, aired 2001-03-26 | AT THE BOOKSTORE $200: 2 men travel America with this man's brain in a Tupperware bowl in the true story "Driving Mr. Albert" Albert Einstein |
| #3776, aired 2001-01-22 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $200: Time Magazine named him the "Person of the Century" Albert Einstein |
| #3770, aired 2001-01-12 | NEW MEXICO $200: A letter from Einstein to FDR is on display at the Bradbury Science Museum in this city, birthplace of the atomic bomb Los Alamos |
| #3750, aired 2000-12-15 | HISTORY $400: In 1939 he wrote to FDR to present the military potential of an uncontrolled fission chain reaction Albert Einstein |
| #3747, aired 2000-12-12 | THAT'S ENOUGH STALIN $400: Before he died in 1924 he wrote the Communist Party a letter saying, "Stalin is excessively rude" Vladimir Lenin |
| #3639, aired 2000-06-01 | TO THE MAX $800: This contemporary of Einstein won the 1918 Nobel Prize for Physics Max Planck |
| #3627, aired 2000-05-16 | INTELLIGENT FILMS $400: They don't get much smarter than this scientist played by Walter Matthau in "I.Q." Albert Einstein |
| #3619, aired 2000-05-04 | 20th CENTURY QUOTES $500 (Daily Double): A physicist, 1955:
"If only I had known, I would have become a watchmaker" Albert Einstein |
| #3518, aired 1999-12-15 | PHYSICS $1000: Einstein won the Nobel Prize for explaining this effect seen when light hits metal Photoelectric effect |
| #3491, aired 1999-11-08 | PEOPLE IN HISTORY $300: Scientist seen here as a child with one of his special "relatives" Albert Einstein |
| #3449, aired 1999-09-09 | BILL NYE THE SCIENCE GUY $300: In 1905 this way cool scientist published his special theory of relativity Albert Einstein |
| #3432, aired 1999-07-06 | MEG RYAN MOVIES $1000: Meg lettered in 2 films, 1988's "D.O.A" & this 1994 film featuring Walter Matthau as Albert Einstein I.Q. |
| #3418, aired 1999-06-16 | WHO THOUGHT OF THAT? $700 (Daily Double): He first determined that energy equals mass times the velocity of light squared Albert Einstein |
| #3394, aired 1999-05-13 | SCIENTISTS $400: Born in Germany in 1879, he became a Swiss citizen around the turn of the century & a U.S. citizen in 1940 Albert Einstein |
| #3385, aired 1999-04-30 | THEORIES $600: In 1905 he came up with a "special" theory; his "general" theory took until 1916 Albert Einstein |
| #3360, aired 1999-03-26 | GRAB BAG $800: It's elementary, if 98 is California & 100 is Enrico Fermi, then 99 is this man Albert Einstein |
| #3349, aired 1999-03-11 | AD AGE $100: Bob Dylan, Pablo Picasso & Albert Einstein "Think different" according to ads for this computer company Apple |
| #3336, aired 1999-02-22 | FATHERLY NICKNAMES $100: "The Father of Relativity" Albert Einstein |
| #3305, aired 1999-01-08 | A.K.A. $800: This comic actor-director's "Mother" could tell you his real name is Albert Einstein Albert Brooks |
| #3295, aired 1998-12-25 | BEFORE & AFTER $600: Yesss! He's the sports announcer who theorized about relativity Marv Albert Einstein |
| #3284, aired 1998-12-10 | ANAGRAMMED THEORETICAL PHYSICISTS $400: NINETIES (Albert) Einstein |
| #3235, aired 1998-10-02 | FIRESTARTER $100: This man who started some major fires in physics was a high school dropout Albert Einstein |
| #3178, aired 1998-05-27 | NOT-SO-MAD SCIENTISTS $200: The "E" in his equation, E=mc(squared), stands for energy, not his name Albert Einstein |
| #3029, aired 1997-10-30 | HISTORIC DOCUMENTS $200: In 1939 Albert Einstein wrote to Franklin Roosevelt urging development of this weapon the atomic bomb |
| #3017, aired 1997-10-14 | ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR $600: Element No. 99 on the Periodic Table was named for Einstein & No. 100 was named for this physicist Enrico Fermi (Fermium) |
| #3010, aired 1997-10-03 | GIANTS OF SCIENCE $400: By then living in the U.S., he was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952 Albert Einstein |
| #2997, aired 1997-09-16 | NAME CALLING $300: A comedian's son, actor-director Albert Brooks was born with this "scientific" name Einstein |
| #2985, aired 1997-07-18 | SCIENCE $500: Einstein said measurements of this depend on whether the observer is moving; it's not absolute time |
| #2924, aired 1997-04-24 | POTPOURRI $400: The National Air & Space Museum's planetarium is named for this German-American physicist Albert Einstein |
| #2884, aired 1997-02-27 | GENERAL SCIENCE $1000: In 1905 this physicist proposed that photons were the carriers of electromagnetic energy Albert Einstein |
| #2870, aired 1997-02-07 | ACTORS & ROLES $200: In the movie "I.Q." Walter Matthau portrayed this famous scientist Albert Einstein |
| #2851, aired 1997-01-13 | SCIENTISTS $200: He originally wrote his equation as L=mc(squared), before he crossed out the L & replaced it with an E Albert Einstein |
| #2786, aired 1996-10-14 | SAINTS $400: It might take an Einstein to figure out that he's the patron saint of science students Albert |
| #2738, aired 1996-06-26 | PHYSICS $200: Einstein's "Special" theory of this, put forth in 1905, refers only to inertial frames of reference Relativity |
| #2717, aired 1996-05-28 | SCIENTISTS & INVENTORS $300: In 1914 Max Planck helped Einstein get a position at the Kaiser Wilhelm Physical Institute in this capital Berlin |
| #2707, aired 1996-05-14 | SCIENTISTS $200: He began to form his special theory of relativity when he was 16 Einstein |
| #2700, aired 1996-05-03 | BIOGRAPHIES $200: Banesh Hoffmann subtitled his book about this father of relativity "Creator and Rebel" Albert Einstein |
| #2566, aired 1995-10-30 | SCIENCE & SCIENTISTS $200: He's the physicist called "The Father of Relativity" Albert Einstein |
| #2559, aired 1995-10-19 | FAMOUS NAMES $100: In 1921 he gave a lecture at Columbia University on his theory of relativity Einstein |
| #2536, aired 1995-09-18 | SCIENCE & NATURE $200: A 1919 solar eclipse confirmed this theory of Albert Einstein's relativity |
| #2514, aired 1995-07-06 | PEOPLE $400: This British expert on black holes has been called "the greatest theoretical physicist since Einstein" Stephen Hawking |
| #2480, aired 1995-05-19 | FAMOUS PEOPLE $200: In 1933 this discoverer of the photoelectric effect moved from Germany to Princeton, N.J. Einstein |
| #2442, aired 1995-03-28 | INVENTORS & SCIENTISTS $400: Element number 99 is named for this German-American physicist Einstein |
| #2399, aired 1995-01-26 | ALBERT EINSTEIN $200: Einstein was in the Orient when he learned that he had won this prize for physics for 1921 the Nobel Prize |
| #2399, aired 1995-01-26 | ALBERT EINSTEIN $400: Shortly after Einstein became a citizen of this country, he took a patent office job in Bern Switzerland |
| #2399, aired 1995-01-26 | ALBERT EINSTEIN $600: Einstein's letter to FDR about the possibility of an A-bomb led to this project to build one Manhattan Project |
| #2399, aired 1995-01-26 | ALBERT EINSTEIN $800: Einstein served on this international organization's Committee on Intellectual Cooperation the League of Nations |
| #2399, aired 1995-01-26 | ALBERT EINSTEIN $1000: For relaxation Einstein sailed a boat & played this musical instrument the violin |
| #2335, aired 1994-10-28 | LIGHT $100: In Einstein's famous formulation E=mc2, this letter represents the velocity of light c |
| #2321, aired 1994-10-10 | AUSTRALIAN CINEMA $300: We're serious; Yahoo Serious played this "Young" inventor (Albert) Einstein |
| #2267, aired 1994-06-14 | ALS & ALBERTS $200: Of the first 100 elements, the one named for this scientist ranks 99th (Albert) Einstein |
| #2223, aired 1994-04-13 | LESSER KNOWN NAMES $200: The work of Dutch physicist Hendrik Lorentz influenced this man's special theory of relativity Einstein |
| #2210, aired 1994-03-25 | OPERA $200: Philip Glass has written operas on Akhnaten, on Gandhi & on this E=mc2 physicist Albert Einstein |
| #2162, aired 1994-01-18 | BOOKS & AUTHORS $500: With Sigmund Freud, this physicist wrote "Why War?", published by The League of Nations (Albert) Einstein |
| #2116, aired 1993-11-15 | BORN & DIED $500: Born in Ulm, Germany March 14, 1879, he died April 18, 1955 in Princeton, New Jersey Albert Einstein |
| #2064, aired 1993-07-22 | BRAINS $100: His writings include the 1920 publication "Relativity: The Special and General Theory" Albert Einstein |
| #2052, aired 1993-07-06 | SCIENCE $200: This is the formulation of the Einstein equation E = mc2 |
| #2041, aired 1993-06-21 | SCIENTISTS $600: Leo Szilard actually wrote the letter proposing the A-bomb that Einstein sent to this president FDR |
| #1966, aired 1993-03-08 | SCIENCE $200: He was living in Switzerland when he discovered the equivalence of mass & energy in 1907 Albert Einstein |
| #1958, aired 1993-02-24 | GUINNESS RECORDS $400: In 1987 a record $1,160,000 was paid for a manuscript by this scientist explaining his relativity theory Einstein |
| #1949, aired 1993-02-11 | AMERICAN HISTORY $500 (Daily Double): In 1954 this "Father of the Atomic Bomb" had his security clearance revoked J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| #1903, aired 1992-12-09 | AWARDS $1000: Established in 1954, this award for achievement in atomic energy was named for its first recipient (Enrico) Fermi |
| #1866, aired 1992-10-19 | FAMOUS SCIENTISTS $200: A May 29, 1919 solar eclipse observed in the Gulf of Guinea confirmed his general theory of relativity (Albert) Einstein |
| #1794, aired 1992-05-21 | GENERAL SCIENCE $100: Albert Einstein announced his special theory of this in 1905 & his general theory in 1915 relativity |
| #1743, aired 1992-03-11 | SCIENCE $1000: Einstein used this theory, introduced by Max Planck in 1900, to help explain the photoelectric effect the quantum theory |
| #1737, aired 1992-03-03 | TIME $200: Newton thought time was absolute; Einstein said it was this relative |
| #1655, aired 1991-11-08 | FAMOUS SCIENTISTS $200: His only Nobel Prize was for the discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect, not relativity Einstein |
| #1642, aired 1991-10-22 | SCIENTISTS $200: While working at the Swiss patent office in 1905, he published his special theory of relativity Einstein |
| #1594, aired 1991-07-04 | HODGEPODGE $200: Modern composer Philip Glass earned relative success with a 1976 opera about this scientist Einstein |
| #1573, aired 1991-06-05 | NEW JERSEYIANS $800: This scientist lived at 112 Mercer St. in Princeton from 1935 until his death in 1955 Albert Einstein |
| #1564, aired 1991-05-23 | SCIENCE $600: In 1905 he was the first to propose the existence of particles of light called photons Einstein |
| #1551, aired 1991-05-06 | FAMOUS NAMES $500: In 1952 this scientist turned down an invitation to become president of Israel Einstein |
| #1542, aired 1991-04-23 | LABOR UNIONS $500: John Dewey & Einstein were early supporters of the AFT, which represents members of this profession teachers |
| #1413, aired 1990-10-24 | FAMOUS QUOTES $400: His reaction to the quantum theory was "Gott wurfelt nicht," "God does not play dice." Einstein |
| #1389, aired 1990-09-20 | SCIENCE & NATURE $100: Einstein's theory of relativity shows that a body can't actually travel at this speed the speed of light |
| #10, aired 1990-08-18 | SCIENTISTS $500: Some scholars say his first wife, Mileva, deserves some credit for his theory of relativity (Albert) Einstein |
| #1372, aired 1990-07-17 | QUOTES $200: Relativity? No problem; to him, income taxes were "the hardest thing in the world to understand" Einstein |
| #1289, aired 1990-03-22 | SCIENCE & NATURE $800: Einstein's famous equation states energy equals mass times this squared the speed of light |
| #1270, aired 1990-02-23 | NEW JERSEYITES $200: German-American physicist whose letter to FDR led to the Manhattan Project to make the A-bomb Einstein |
| #1252, aired 1990-01-30 | QUOTES $200: "People love chopping" this, Einstein said, because "one immediately sees the results" Wood |
| #1216, aired 1989-12-11 | PHYSICS $1000: His 1921 Nobel Prize was primarily for his photoelectric effect; he was light years ahead of others Albert Einstein |
| #1197, aired 1989-11-14 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $300: In nuclear fission mass from the neutron and the bombarded nucleus become energy as per this equation E = mc2 |
| #1183, aired 1989-10-25 | QUOTES $300: Albert Einstein said this woman scientist was "the only one whom fame has not corrupted" Marie Curie |
| #1116, aired 1989-06-12 | POTLUCK $300: Saying "Nikon has the perfect camera for both", its ads include photos of Einstein & this Stooge Moe |
| #1055, aired 1989-03-17 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $200: In his relativity theory, Einstein proposed a space-time continuum made up of this many dimensions 4 |
| #1052, aired 1989-03-14 | "Q.M." $600: Louis de Broglie, Max Planck & Einstein all contributed to this field of physics quantum mechanics |
| #1018, aired 1989-01-25 | EINSTEIN $200: 2 of the 3 countries of which Einstein was a citizen during his life (2 of) Germany, United States or (Switzerland) |
| #1018, aired 1989-01-25 | EINSTEIN $400: Einstein's theory that this travels in a stream of particles led to the "electric eye" light |
| #1018, aired 1989-01-25 | EINSTEIN $600: Little Albert learned to play this musical instrument & was pretty good at it violin |
| #1018, aired 1989-01-25 | EINSTEIN $800: Barbara Feldon could tell you this is the atomic number of Einsteinium, the element named for him 99 |
| #1018, aired 1989-01-25 | EINSTEIN $1000: In 1952 Einstein was offered & turned down the presidency of this country Israel |
| #999, aired 1988-12-29 | ROARING '20s $200: Moe Smith & Izzy Einstein gained fame as government agents enforcing this prohibition |
| #892, aired 1988-06-21 | WORLD WAR II $200: He signed the famous letter warning FDR that Germany might be working on an atom bomb Einstein |
| #845, aired 1988-04-15 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $1000: What the E, m, & c stand for in Einstein's famous equation energy, mass & the speed of light |
| #819, aired 1988-03-10 | 1955 $600: After his death April 18, his brain was removed for scientific study, as he had wished Albert Einstein |
| #796, aired 1988-02-08 | WISE GUYS $400: A manuscript by this wise guy explaining his E=mc squared was sold recently for over $1 million Albert Einstein |
| #787, aired 1988-01-26 | SCIENTISTS $200: The 1st English edition of his book on relativity came with 5 diagrams & a portrait of the author Albert Einstein |
| #744, aired 1987-11-26 | AWARDS $2,900 (Daily Double): Category in which Albert Einstein won his Nobel Prize physics |
| #527, aired 1986-12-16 | CELEBRITY SECRETS $200: Shelley WInters said this "Bus Stop" star secretly lusted after Albert Einstein Marilyn Monroe |
| #505, aired 1986-11-14 | NUCLEAR PHYSICS $200: FDR was alerted to the military significance of nuclear fission by a letter from this scientist Einstein |
| #496, aired 1986-11-03 | TOUGH TRIVIA $800: It's been said "John Scarne is to" this field "what Dr. Einstein was to advanced physics" gambling |
| #472, aired 1986-09-30 | FAMOUS QUOTES $800: He said, "If my theory succeeds, Germany will say I am a German;.. if (it) fails, (they will) call me a Jew" Albert Einstein |
| #363, aired 1986-01-29 | PHYSICAL SCIENCE $200: The laser is based on principles 1st proposed by this German genius in 1916 Einstein |
| #342, aired 1985-12-31 | ODDS & ENDS $200: Studies are still being done on this genius' brain, saved from cremation in 1955 Albert Einstein |
| #329, aired 1985-12-12 | FAMOUS NAMES $300: Since this famed scientist was in Calif. when Nazis took power, they stole his house & sailboat Einstein |
| #160, aired 1985-04-19 | 1933 $200: In Berlin, in May, this was done to works of Freud, Einstein and Thomas Mann, among others burning |
| #117, aired 1985-02-19 | "E" BEFORE "I" $200: His "E" came before his "I" & also equaled mc2 Einstein |
| #107, aired 1985-02-05 | PHYSICS $600: He made "relativistic corrections" in Newton's theories which made atomic theory workable Einstein |
| #95, aired 1985-01-18 | A.K.A. $800: In "Real Life" this "Modern Romance" star changed his name from Albert Einstein Albert Brooks |
| #80, aired 1984-12-28 | INVENTORS $800: Albert Einhorn was the "Albert Einstein" who created this local anesthetic Novocain |
| #41, aired 1984-11-05 | NOBEL PRIZE $200: His Physics prize was for work on photoelectric effect, not theory of relativity Einstein |
| #14, aired 1984-09-27 | THE 20TH CENTURY $1000: In 1939, this scientist wrote FDR a letter explaining that an atomic bomb could be built Albert Einstein |
