- 1. Who is credited with inventing the voltaic pile, an early electric battery?
A) Galileo Galilei
B) Isaac Newton
C) Leonardo da Vinci
D) Alessandro Volta
- 2. In which year was Alessandro Volta born?
A) 1745
B) 1826
C) 1801
D) 1682
- 3. Where was Alessandro Volta born?
A) Berlin, Germany
B) Como, Italy
C) Paris, France
D) Vienna, Austria
- 4. Which university did Alessandro Volta teach at for many years?
A) Sorbonne University
B) Oxford University
C) University of Pavia
D) Harvard University
- 5. What was the name of Volta's early electrochemical cell invention that he demonstrated in 1800?
A) Electric Stack
B) Voltage Detector
C) Voltaic Pile
D) Pile-A Battery
- 6. Volta's disagreement with which fellow scientist led to the development of the voltaic pile?
A) Michael Faraday
B) Nikola Tesla
C) Thomas Edison
D) Luigi Galvani
- 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) Fields Medal
B) Pulitzer Prize
C) Copley Medal
D) Nobel Prize
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