- 1. Who is credited with inventing the voltaic pile, an early electric battery?
A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Isaac Newton
C) Alessandro Volta
D) Galileo Galilei
- 2. In which year was Alessandro Volta born?
A) 1826
B) 1682
C) 1801
D) 1745
- 3. Where was Alessandro Volta born?
A) Como, Italy
B) Paris, France
C) Vienna, Austria
D) Berlin, Germany
- 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) Copley Medal
B) Fields Medal
C) Pulitzer Prize
D) Nobel Prize
- 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) Ampere's Law
B) Lenz's Law
C) Faraday's Law
D) Ohm's Law
- 7. Volta's disagreement with which fellow scientist led to the development of the voltaic pile?
A) Nikola Tesla
B) Michael Faraday
C) Luigi Galvani
D) Thomas Edison
- 8. What was the name of Volta's early electrochemical cell invention that he demonstrated in 1800?
A) Electric Stack
B) Pile-A Battery
C) Voltaic Pile
D) Voltage Detector
- 9. In what year did Alessandro Volta pass away?
A) 1852
B) 1827
C) 1698
D) 1785
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