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