Biography Quiz - Nikola Tesla

1. In which present day country was Nikola Tesla born in the village Smiljan in 1856?

2. What was Nikola Tesla expected to become following his father's footsteps?

3. Where did his father send him to study engineering in 1875?

4. Where did Tesla get his first job at a telephone company in 1882?

5. Who did Tesla start working for after he moved to the United States in 1884?

6. What is perhaps Tesla's most famous invention?

7. Where was the first hydroelectric power plant built according to the Tesla project?

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?

9. Did Tesla won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1915?

10. Who was the fellow inventor and entrepreneur who paid Tesla a million dollars for his collective patents?

11. Tesla was friends with which author?

12. The last project Tesla worked on was an anti-war weapon. What was it called?

13. The International System of Units named which physical quantity "tesla" in 1960?

14. Where are both Nikola Tesla museum and airport located?

15. In which hotel in New York, in room 3327, Tesla died on January 7, 1943?