- 1. Who is credited with inventing the voltaic pile, an early electric battery?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Leonardo da Vinci
C) Isaac Newton
D) Alessandro Volta
- 2. In which year was Alessandro Volta born?
A) 1745
B) 1826
C) 1682
D) 1801
- 3. Where was Alessandro Volta born?
A) Vienna, Austria
B) Paris, France
C) Como, Italy
D) Berlin, Germany
- 4. Which university did Alessandro Volta teach at for many years?
A) Oxford University
B) University of Pavia
C) Sorbonne University
D) Harvard University
- 5. 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
- 6. Volta's disagreement with which fellow scientist led to the development of the voltaic pile?
A) Luigi Galvani
B) Michael Faraday
C) Thomas Edison
D) Nikola Tesla
- 7. In what year did Alessandro Volta pass away?
A) 1827
B) 1785
C) 1698
D) 1852
- 8. 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) Lenz's Law
B) Ampere's Law
C) Ohm's Law
D) Faraday's Law
- 9. Which prestigious award did Volta receive in 1800 for his work on the voltaic pile?
A) Fields Medal
B) Nobel Prize
C) Pulitzer Prize
D) Copley Medal
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