- 1. Who is credited with inventing the voltaic pile, an early electric battery?
A) Alessandro Volta
B) Galileo Galilei
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Isaac Newton
- 2. In which year was Alessandro Volta born?
A) 1801
B) 1682
C) 1826
D) 1745
- 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) Sorbonne University
B) University of Pavia
C) Harvard University
D) Oxford University
- 5. What was the name of Volta's early electrochemical cell invention that he demonstrated in 1800?
A) Voltage Detector
B) Pile-A Battery
C) Voltaic Pile
D) Electric Stack
- 6. Volta's disagreement with which fellow scientist led to the development of the voltaic pile?
A) Michael Faraday
B) Thomas Edison
C) Nikola Tesla
D) Luigi Galvani
- 7. In what year did Alessandro Volta pass away?
A) 1698
B) 1827
C) 1852
D) 1785
- 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) Faraday's Law
B) Ampere's Law
C) Ohm's Law
D) Lenz's Law
- 9. Which prestigious award did Volta receive in 1800 for his work on the voltaic pile?
A) Fields Medal
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Copley Medal
D) Nobel Prize
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