Nikola Tesla
The city that Nikola Tesla died in.
What is NYC?
This was Edison's middle name.
What is Alva?
The inventor responsible for AC current.
Who was Nikola Tesla?
The inventor responsible for DC current.
Who was Thomas Edison?
Nikola Tesla had this kind of memory, which allowed him to easily memorize what he read.
What is a photographic memory?
Tesla had this many children.
What is zero?
Edison had this many children.
This was the defining quality of AC current.
What is multidirectional current?
This was the defining feature of DC current.
What is one-directional current?
Edison gave two of his kids these nicknames based off morse code.
What is Dot and Dash?
Thomas Edison lost this sense at the youthful age of 12.
What is hearing?
AC current can be converted easily to different voltages by use of this device.
What is a converter?
This device generates DC current.
What is a battery, fuel cell, rectifier, generator?
Edison once saved a three year old child from this moving vehicle.
This technology, patented by Tesla, is the basis of most AC machinery (HINT it spins).
What is a rotating magnetic field?
This invention of Edison's proved controversial with politicians.
What is the electric vote recorder?
At what major public event was AC current first displayed?
What is the Columbian Exposition (1893)?
What is the Chicago World Fair?
This inventor created the first machine to turn mechanical energy into DC current, the dynamo.
Who was Michael Faraday?
Tesla had intimate relations with this animal, common in the streets of NYC.
What is a pigeon?
Tesla was obsessed with this number (washed hands this many times, walked around a building this many times before entering, etc.).
What is three?
Edison did this act to demonstrate the dangers of AC current.
What is electrocuting stray animals (publicly)?
This tool is used to convert AC to DC current for most electronic devices (phones, laptops, etc.).
What is a charging block?
Due to the potential voltage loss over long stretches, DC current faced this limitation.
What is traveling short distances?
Thomas Edison reportedly loved this food, which consists of an apple wrapped in a pastry dough, often baked in a buttery sauce.
What is an apple dumpling?