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