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