Practice your trivia skills: History

History

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

Portugal

England

France

Spain

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

Professor of Mathematics

Member of Parliament

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?

100 Megatons

150 Megatons

200 Megatons

75 Megatons

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

1204

1066

911

1420

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

Thomas Paine

Nathan Hale

Henry Longfellow

Paul Revere