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

England
Portugal
France
Spain


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

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


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
150 Megatons
200 Megatons


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

911
1066
1204
1420


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

Thomas Paine
Paul Revere
Nathan Hale
Henry Longfellow



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