Statistics for Biography Quiz - Nikola Tesla

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Who did Tesla start working for after he moved to the United States in 1884?	Thomas Edison	100%
What is perhaps Tesla's most famous invention?	Alternating-current power system	75%
Where was the first hydroelectric power plant built according to the Tesla project?	Niagara Falls	75%
Where are both Nikola Tesla museum and airport located?	Belgrade	71%
In which present day country was Nikola Tesla born in the village Smiljan in 1856?	Croatia	71%
Where did his father send him to study engineering in 1875?	Graz	71%
What was Nikola Tesla expected to become following his father's footsteps?	Priest	71%
Did Tesla won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1915?	No	67%
Where was the Tesla Experiment Station laboratory located for his study of the use of high-voltage, high-frequency current in wireless power transmission?	Colorado Springs	54%
Who was the fellow inventor and entrepreneur who paid Tesla a million dollars for his collective patents?	George Westinghouse	54%
The International System of Units named which physical quantity "tesla" in 1960?	Magnetic flux density	54%
Tesla was friends with which author?	Mark Twain	50%
In which hotel in New York, in room 3327, Tesla died on January 7, 1943?	The New Yorker Hotel	50%
The last project Tesla worked on was an anti-war weapon. What was it called?	Death ray	46%
Where did Tesla get his first job at a telephone company in 1882?	Budapest	29%

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