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?

Warden of the Royal Mint

Professor of Mathematics

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?

75 Megatons

100 Megatons

200 Megatons

150 Megatons

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

911

1066

1420

1204

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

Paul Revere

Nathan Hale

Thomas Paine

Henry Longfellow