Christiaan Huygens - Quiz
- 1. When was Christiaan Huygens born?
A) 1749
B) 1682
C) 1596
D) 1629
- 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) Hourglass
B) Sundial
C) Candle clock
D) Pendulum clock
- 5. In what year did Huygens publish his work on the pendulum clock?
A) 1673
B) 1700
C) 1802
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) Jupiter
B) Mars
C) Saturn
D) Venus
- 8. Christiaan Huygens was a member of which scientific organization?
A) NASA
B) CERN
C) Royal Society
D) UNESCO
- 9. Huygens' wave theory of light was later supported and confirmed by whom?
A) Niels Bohr
B) Thomas Young
C) Max Planck
D) Michael Faraday
- 10. What is the name of the book in which Huygens first published his findings on Saturn's rings?
A) The Galilean Moons
B) Celestial Mechanics
C) Starry Night
D) Systema Saturnium
- 11. In what country was Christiaan Huygens born?
A) Germany
B) France
C) Netherlands
D) England
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