78 Nikola Tesla Trivia Questions with Answers
78 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What type of turbine did Nikola Tesla invent that has no blades?
Answer
Tesla turbine
Where are Nikola Tesla's ashes displayed?
Answer
Nikola Tesla Museum in Belgrade
How tall was Tesla's Wardenclyffe Tower?
Answer
187 feet
What did Tesla call the X-ray images he produced in 1896?
Answer
Shadowgraphs
What was the occupation of Nikola Tesla's father?
Answer
Orthodox priest
What is the name of the one-way fluid valve invented by Nikola Tesla?
Answer
Tesla valve
What was the name of the New York hotel where Tesla lived from 1934 until his death?
Answer
The New Yorker Hotel
In which city did Tesla work for Thomas Edison after arriving in the US?
Answer
New York City
What was the name of the biographer who wrote 'Prodigal Genius: The Life of Nikola Tesla'?
Answer
John J. O'Neill
Which world's fair in 1893 featured Tesla's alternating current lighting system?
Answer
World's Columbian Exposition
What was the ethnic background of Nikola Tesla's mother?
Answer
Serbian
What was the name of Tesla's wireless transmission tower on Long Island?
Answer
Wardenclyffe Tower
In which U.S. city did Tesla build a laboratory in 1899 for high-voltage experiments?
Answer
Colorado Springs
Which company licensed Tesla's AC motor patents?
Answer
Westinghouse
What is the name of Tesla's high-voltage resonant transformer invention?
Answer
Tesla coil
Which famous inventor was Tesla's employer after he arrived in the United States?
Answer
Thomas Edison
In what year did Nikola Tesla die?
Answer
1943
What type of electrical current did Tesla champion over Edison's direct current?
Answer
Alternating current
In which modern country was Nikola Tesla born?
Answer
Croatia