- 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) 1801
C) 1682
D) 1826
- 3. Where was Alessandro Volta born?
A) Como, Italy
B) Berlin, Germany
C) Paris, France
D) Vienna, Austria
- 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. Which prestigious award did Volta receive in 1800 for his work on the voltaic pile?
A) Pulitzer Prize
B) Copley Medal
C) Fields Medal
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) Faraday's Law
B) Ohm's Law
C) Lenz's Law
D) Ampere's Law
- 7. Volta's disagreement with which fellow scientist led to the development of the voltaic pile?
A) Luigi Galvani
B) Thomas Edison
C) Nikola Tesla
D) Michael Faraday
- 8. What was the name of Volta's early electrochemical cell invention that he demonstrated in 1800?
A) Voltage Detector
B) Voltaic Pile
C) Electric Stack
D) Pile-A Battery
- 9. In what year did Alessandro Volta pass away?
A) 1827
B) 1785
C) 1852
D) 1698
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