- 1. Who is credited with inventing the voltaic pile, an early electric battery?
A) Leonardo da Vinci
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Alessandro Volta
D) Isaac Newton
- 2. In which year was Alessandro Volta born?
A) 1801
B) 1745
C) 1826
D) 1682
- 3. Where was Alessandro Volta born?
A) Como, Italy
B) Vienna, Austria
C) Berlin, Germany
D) Paris, France
- 4. Which university did Alessandro Volta teach at for many years?
A) University of Pavia
B) Sorbonne University
C) Oxford University
D) Harvard University
- 5. What was the name of Volta's early electrochemical cell invention that he demonstrated in 1800?
A) Pile-A Battery
B) Voltaic Pile
C) Voltage Detector
D) Electric Stack
- 6. 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
- 7. In what year did Alessandro Volta pass away?
A) 1827
B) 1785
C) 1852
D) 1698
- 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) Ampere's Law
B) Faraday's Law
C) Lenz's Law
D) Ohm's Law
- 9. Which prestigious award did Volta receive in 1800 for his work on the voltaic pile?
A) Nobel Prize
B) Copley Medal
C) Fields Medal
D) Pulitzer Prize
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