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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?
Bosnia and Herzegovina ✓
Slovenia ✓
Croatia ✓
Serbia ✓
2. What was Nikola Tesla expected to become following his father's footsteps?
Lawyer ✓
Doctor ✓
Priest ✓
Butcher ✓
3. Where did his father send him to study engineering in 1875?
Geneva ✓
Rome ✓
Berlin ✓
Graz ✓
4. Where did Tesla get his first job at a telephone company in 1882?
Paris ✓
Belgrade ✓
Budapest ✓
Vienna ✓
5. Who did Tesla start working for after he moved to the United States in 1884?
Marie Curie ✓
Alexander Bell ✓
Albert Einstein ✓
Thomas Edison ✓
6. What is perhaps Tesla's most famous invention?
X-rays ✓
Alternating-current power system ✓
Battery ✓
Steam engine ✓
7. Where was the first hydroelectric power plant built according to the Tesla project?
Hoover Dam ✓
Niagara Falls ✓
Panama Canal ✓
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?
Colorado Springs ✓
Austin ✓
Tucson ✓
Idaho Falls ✓
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 ✓
George Westinghouse ✓
J.P. Morgan ✓
Henry Ford ✓
11. Tesla was friends with which author?
Mark Twain ✓
Ernest Hemingway ✓
Charles Dickens ✓
Truman Capote ✓
12. The last project Tesla worked on was an anti-war weapon. What was it called?
Ultimate nullifer ✓
Death ray ✓
Atom bomb ✓
Doomsday machine ✓
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?
Zagreb ✓
New York ✓
Belgrade ✓
Budapest ✓
15. In which hotel in New York, in room 3327, Tesla died on January 7, 1943?
The Plaza ✓
Waldorf Astoria ✓
The Ritz-Carlton ✓
The New Yorker Hotel ✓
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