Nikola Tesla Multiple Choice Questions and Answers for Practice

16. Tesla was known to sleep for how many hours per day?

1. 4
2. 2
3. 6
4. 8

17. Tesla was awarded how many patents during his lifetime?

1. 50
2. 112
3. 300
4. 275

18. Tesla was a strong advocate for what type of energy?

1. Wireless electricity
2. Hydroelectric power
3. Renewable energy
4. All of the above

19. Which unit of magnetic field strength is named after Tesla?

1. Gauss
2. Tesla
3. Weber
4. Ampere

20. What did Tesla claim to have received from outer space?

1. Signals
2. Alien artifacts
3. Unknown materials
4. Radio waves

21. Tesla had a deep fear of what?

1. Germs
2. Darkness
3. Women wearing pearls
4. High-pitched sounds

22. Tesla became a U.S. citizen in which year?

1. 1884
2. 1891
3. 1894
4. 1900

23. What was Tesla’s primary field of work?

1. Biology
2. Physics
3. Electrical Engineering
4. Chemistry

24. Tesla worked briefly in which field before moving to the United States?

1. Military engineering
2. Telephone exchange operations
3. Railway construction
4. Chemical manufacturing

25. Tesla’s rivalry with Edison is commonly referred to as what?

1. The Electric Feud
2. The Current War
3. The Inventors’ Conflict
4. The Power Struggle

26. What was Tesla’s perspective on profit and commercial success?

1. He valued it highly
2. He disregarded it
3. He was indifferent
4. He avoided it

27. Which city houses the Nikola Tesla Museum?

1. Belgrade
2. Zagreb
3. New York
4. Vienna

28. Tesla died in which New York hotel?

1. The Plaza
2. The New Yorker
3. The Ritz-Carlton
4. Waldorf Astoria

29. Tesla was posthumously awarded which medal in 1960?

1. Edison Medal
2. Nobel Prize
3. IEEE Medal of Honor
4. Order of the Star of Karageorge

30. What did Tesla demonstrate using a remote-controlled boat in 1898?

1. Radio-controlled technology
2. Sonar
3. Underwater propulsion
4. Wireless networking