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236. Against which country did the Dutch Republic fight the Eighty Years' War?

England
Portugal
Spain
France


237. Which of these positions did the astronomer and physicist Isaac Newton not hold?

Member of Parliament
Professor of Mathematics
Surveyor to the City of London
Warden of the Royal Mint


238. The Tsar Bomba, the most powerful nuclear bomb ever tested, had a yield of 50 megatons but theoretically had a maximum yield of how much?

75 Megatons
100 Megatons
200 Megatons
150 Megatons


239. The Battle of Hastings was fought in which year?

1204
1420
1066
911


240. Who rode on horseback to warn the Minutemen that the British were coming during the U.S. Revolutionary War?

Nathan Hale
Paul Revere
Henry Longfellow
Thomas Paine



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