- 1. When was Christiaan Huygens born?
A) 1682
B) 1629
C) 1596
D) 1749
- 2. Huygens discovered the first known what within the rings of Saturn?
A) Comet
B) Asteroid
C) Planet
D) Moon
- 3. In what year did Christiaan Huygens discover the rings of Saturn?
A) 1750
B) 1655
C) 1700
D) 1802
- 4. What apparatus did Huygens invent in 1656 to improve timekeeping accuracy?
A) Pendulum clock
B) Candle clock
C) Sundial
D) Hourglass
- 5. In what year did Huygens publish his work on the pendulum clock?
A) 1673
B) 1802
C) 1700
D) 1756
- 6. Huygens was the first to discover the nature of what feature on Mars?
A) Canals
B) Valleys
C) Volcanoes
D) Polar ice caps
- 7. Christiaan Huygens made significant contributions to the understanding of what celestial object?
A) Mars
B) Jupiter
C) Venus
D) Saturn
- 8. Christiaan Huygens was a member of which scientific organization?
A) UNESCO
B) CERN
C) Royal Society
D) NASA
- 9. Huygens' wave theory of light was later supported and confirmed by whom?
A) Thomas Young
B) Michael Faraday
C) Niels Bohr
D) Max Planck
- 10. What is the name of the book in which Huygens first published his findings on Saturn's rings?
A) The Galilean Moons
B) Starry Night
C) Systema Saturnium
D) Celestial Mechanics
- 11. In what country was Christiaan Huygens born?
A) France
B) Netherlands
C) Germany
D) England
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