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