Practice your trivia skills: History

History

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

France

England

Spain

Portugal

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

Surveyor to the City of London

Professor of Mathematics

Warden of the Royal Mint

Member of Parliament

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?

100 Megatons

75 Megatons

150 Megatons

200 Megatons

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

911

1420

1204

1066

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

Paul Revere

Henry Longfellow

Thomas Paine

Nathan Hale