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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?
Croatia
Serbia
Slovenia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
2. What was Nikola Tesla expected to become following his father's footsteps?
Doctor
Lawyer
Priest
Butcher
3. Where did his father send him to study engineering in 1875?
Graz
Rome
Geneva
Berlin
4. Where did Tesla get his first job at a telephone company in 1882?
Paris
Vienna
Belgrade
Budapest
5. Who did Tesla start working for after he moved to the United States in 1884?
Albert Einstein
Alexander Bell
Thomas Edison
Marie Curie
6. What is perhaps Tesla's most famous invention?
Alternating-current power system
X-rays
Battery
Steam engine
7. Where was the first hydroelectric power plant built according to the Tesla project?
Panama Canal
Niagara Falls
Hoover Dam
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?
Austin
Idaho Falls
Colorado Springs
Tucson
9. Did Tesla won a Nobel Prize for physics in 1915?
Yes
No
10. Who was the fellow inventor and entrepreneur who paid Tesla a million dollars for his collective patents?
George Westinghouse
J.P. Morgan
Henry Ford
Andrew Carnegie
11. Tesla was friends with which author?
Charles Dickens
Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway
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?
Electric current
Amount of substance
Thermodynamic temperature
Magnetic flux density
14. Where are both Nikola Tesla museum and airport located?
Belgrade
New York
Budapest
Zagreb
15. In which hotel in New York, in room 3327, Tesla died on January 7, 1943?
The Ritz-Carlton
Waldorf Astoria
The Plaza
The New Yorker Hotel
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