Nikola Tesla
Thomas Edison
AC Current
DC Current
Fun Facts
100

The inventor responsible for AC current.

Who was Nikola Tesla?

100

The inventor responsible for DC current.

Who was Thomas Edison?

200

Tesla had this many children.

What is zero?

200

Edison had this many children.

What is three?
200

This was the defining quality of AC current.

What is multidirectional current?

200

This was the defining feature of DC current.

What is one-directional current?

300
Nikola Tesla was born in this Eastern European country, bordering Croatia.
What is Serbia?
300

Thomas Edison lost this sense at the youthful age of 12.

What is hearing?

300

AC current can be converted easily to different voltages by use of this device.

What is a converter?

300

This device generates DC current.

What is a battery, fuel cell, rectifier, generator?

300

Edison gave two of his kids these nicknames based off morse code.

What is Dot and Dash?

400

This invention of Edison's proved controversial with politicians.

What is the electric vote recorder?

400

At what major public event was AC current first displayed?

What is the Columbian Exposition (1893)?

What is the Chicago World Fair?

400

Edison once saved a three year old child from this moving vehicle. 

What is a train?
500

Tesla was obsessed with this number (washed hands this many times, walked around a building this many times before entering, etc.).

What is three?

500

Edison did this act to demonstrate the dangers of AC current. 

What is electrocuting stray animals (publicly)?

500

This tool is used to convert AC to DC current for most electronic devices (phones, laptops, etc.).

What is a charging block?

500

Due to the potential voltage loss over long stretches, DC current faced this limitation.

What is traveling short distances?

500

Tesla had intimate relations with this animal, common in the streets of NYC.

What is a pigeon?