Biography Quiz - Nikola Tesla - Statistics

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Question Answer % Correct
What is perhaps Tesla's most famous invention? Alternating-current power system
88%
Where was the first hydroelectric power plant built according to the Tesla project? Niagara Falls
88%
What was Nikola Tesla expected to become following his father's footsteps? Priest
88%
Where are both Nikola Tesla museum and airport located? Belgrade
75%
In which present day country was Nikola Tesla born in the village Smiljan in 1856? Croatia
75%
Tesla was friends with which author? Mark Twain
75%
Did Tesla won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1915? No
75%
Who did Tesla start working for after he moved to the United States in 1884? Thomas Edison
75%
The International System of Units named which physical quantity "tesla" in 1960? Magnetic flux density
63%
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
50%
Where did his father send him to study engineering in 1875? Graz
50%
In which hotel in New York, in room 3327, Tesla died on January 7, 1943? The New Yorker Hotel
50%
Where did Tesla get his first job at a telephone company in 1882? Budapest
25%
The last project Tesla worked on was an anti-war weapon. What was it called? Death ray
25%
Who was the fellow inventor and entrepreneur who paid Tesla a million dollars for his collective patents? George Westinghouse
25%
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