Statistics for The Life of Thomas Edison

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
His most famous invention	Practical Light Bulb	94%
He proposed to his wife using this code	Morse Code	88%
He co-founded this company, abbreviated GE	General Electric	87%
He took camping trips with this auto tycoon	Henry Ford	86%
His invention for recording and playing back sound	Phonograph	84%
Diet he shared with Gandhi and Hitler	Vegetarian	80%
This Serbian inventor worked for him briefly	Nikola Tesla	75%
He thought AC power was dangerous. What does AC stand for?	{Alternating} Current	73%
Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent ____________	Perspiration	64%
His middle name	Alva	62%
His nickname: The ______ of Menlo Park	Wizard	62%
His laboratory was located in this state	New Jersey	60%
His invention for displaying stock prices	Stock {Ticker}	56%
It is (wrongly) claimed that he helped electrocute a killer animal named Topsy. What type of animal was Topsy?	Elephant	44%
This soccer player was named for him	Pelé (Edson Arantes do Nascimento )	32%
He built houses and even furniture out of this industrial material	Cement	25%
He built Pearl Street Station, the world's first …	Power Plant	23%
He was given a patent for this device, which he called a "Kinetograph"	Movie Camera	17%
_________ is all bunk	Religion	16%