- 1. Who is credited with inventing the voltaic pile, an early electric battery?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Alessandro Volta
C) Isaac Newton
D) Leonardo da Vinci
- 2. In which year was Alessandro Volta born?
A) 1682
B) 1745
C) 1801
D) 1826
- 3. Where was Alessandro Volta born?
A) Berlin, Germany
B) Como, Italy
C) Vienna, Austria
D) Paris, France
- 4. Which university did Alessandro Volta teach at for many years?
A) Sorbonne University
B) Oxford University
C) University of Pavia
D) Harvard University
- 5. Which prestigious award did Volta receive in 1800 for his work on the voltaic pile?
A) Nobel Prize
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Fields Medal
D) Copley Medal
- 6. What is the name of Volta's law that states the steady voltage difference between two points in a conducting wire is directly proportional to the electric current passing through it?
A) Ohm's Law
B) Lenz's Law
C) Faraday's Law
D) Ampere's Law
- 7. Volta's disagreement with which fellow scientist led to the development of the voltaic pile?
A) Nikola Tesla
B) Luigi Galvani
C) Michael Faraday
D) Thomas Edison
- 8. What was the name of Volta's early electrochemical cell invention that he demonstrated in 1800?
A) Voltage Detector
B) Voltaic Pile
C) Pile-A Battery
D) Electric Stack
- 9. In what year did Alessandro Volta pass away?
A) 1698
B) 1852
C) 1785
D) 1827
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