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Biography Quiz - Nikola Tesla

What do you know about famous Serbian inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and physicist?
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Last updated: January 28, 2023
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1. In which present day country was Nikola Tesla born in the village Smiljan in 1856?
Croatia
Slovenia
Serbia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2. What was Nikola Tesla expected to become following his father's footsteps?
Lawyer
Priest
Butcher
Doctor
3. Where did his father send him to study engineering in 1875?
Berlin
Rome
Graz
Geneva
4. Where did Tesla get his first job at a telephone company in 1882?
Budapest
Vienna
Belgrade
Paris
5. Who did Tesla start working for after he moved to the United States in 1884?
Marie Curie
Albert Einstein
Thomas Edison
Alexander Bell
6. What is perhaps Tesla's most famous invention?
X-rays
Steam engine
Alternating-current power system
Battery
7. Where was the first hydroelectric power plant built according to the Tesla project?
Panama Canal
Niagara Falls
Hoover Dam
Hudson River
8. Where was the Tesla Experiment Station laboratory located for his study of the use of high-voltage, high-frequency current in wireless power transmission?
Idaho Falls
Austin
Colorado Springs
Tucson
9. Did Tesla won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1915?
No
Yes
10. Who was the fellow inventor and entrepreneur who paid Tesla a million dollars for his collective patents?
Andrew Carnegie
Henry Ford
J.P. Morgan
George Westinghouse
11. Tesla was friends with which author?
Charles Dickens
Truman Capote
Ernest Hemingway
Mark Twain
12. The last project Tesla worked on was an anti-war weapon. What was it called?
Ultimate nullifer
Doomsday machine
Atom bomb
Death ray
13. The International System of Units named which physical quantity "tesla" in 1960?
Amount of substance
Thermodynamic temperature
Magnetic flux density
Electric current
14. Where are both Nikola Tesla museum and airport located?
Budapest
Zagreb
New York
Belgrade
15. In which hotel in New York, in room 3327, Tesla died on January 7, 1943?
Waldorf Astoria
The Plaza
The New Yorker Hotel
The Ritz-Carlton
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