Practice your trivia skills: History

History

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

Spain

England

France

Portugal

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

Professor of Mathematics

Warden of the Royal Mint

Surveyor to the City of London

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?

150 Megatons

75 Megatons

100 Megatons

200 Megatons

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

1420

1204

1066

911

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

Thomas Paine

Nathan Hale

Paul Revere

Henry Longfellow