Explorers and Great Journeys

History · 10 questions

Sailors, mountaineers and adventurers who pushed the map's edges.

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1. Which explorer's 1492 voyage reached the Americas under the Spanish crown?

   1. Amerigo Vespucci
   2. John Cabot
   3. Ferdinand Magellan
   4. Christopher Columbus
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   D) Christopher Columbus

2. Who was the first person to reach the South Pole in 1911?

   1. Robert Falcon Scott
   2. Roald Amundsen
   3. Ernest Shackleton
   4. Fridtjof Nansen
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   B) Roald Amundsen

3. Which two climbers made the first confirmed ascent of Mount Everest in 1953?

   1. George Mallory and Andrew Irvine
   2. Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler
   3. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
   4. Junko Tabei and Ang Rita
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   C) Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

4. Which explorer reached India by sea from Europe in 1498?

   1. Vasco da Gama
   2. Bartolomeu Dias
   3. Henry the Navigator
   4. Marco Polo
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   A) Vasco da Gama

5. Which Venetian traveller wrote about his journeys to China in the 13th century?

   1. Ibn Battuta
   2. Zheng He
   3. Marco Polo
   4. Leif Erikson
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   C) Marco Polo

6. Who is believed to be the first European to reach North America around the year 1000?

   1. Jacques Cartier
   2. Leif Erikson
   3. Henry Hudson
   4. Amerigo Vespucci
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   B) Leif Erikson

7. Which Moroccan scholar travelled across much of the medieval Islamic world for nearly 30 years?

   1. Al-Idrisi
   2. Ibn Khaldun
   3. Ibn Sina
   4. Ibn Battuta
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   D) Ibn Battuta

8. What was the name of the ship on which Charles Darwin sailed to the Galápagos?

   1. HMS Beagle
   2. HMS Endeavour
   3. Mayflower
   4. Santa Maria
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   A) HMS Beagle

9. Magellan himself completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.

   1. True
   2. False
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   B) False

10. Roald Amundsen was Norwegian.

    1. True
    2. False
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    A) True