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Christopher Columbus Quiz - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 8,281 times
- The average score is 14 of 19
Answer Stats
| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What kingdom paid for his voyages? (Technically two kingdoms joined by marriage) | Spain (Castile & Aragon) | 96%
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| In what year did he start his first voyage? | 1492 | 91%
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| What modern-day country was Columbus born in? | Italy | 90%
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| Where did Columbus believe that he had landed? | Asia | 89%
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| What were the names of Columbus's three ships on his first voyage? | Santa Maria | 84%
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| Who were the monarchs of those two kingdoms? | Isabella | 80%
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| What U.S. state's capital city is named Columbus? | Ohio | 80%
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| Which modern-day country was the first one in the New World to be visited by Europeans, more than 400 years before Columbus? | Canada | 78%
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| What were the names of Columbus's three ships on his first voyage? | Pinta | 76%
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| What shape did people in Columbus's time believe the world to be? | Spherical | 75%
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| What modern-day country was the first in the New World to be visited by Columbus? | Bahamas | 73%
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| What were the names of Columbus's three ships on his first voyage? | Niña | 73%
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| What substance did Columbus brutally try to extract from the native populations that he encountered? | Gold | 70%
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| Who were the monarchs of those two kingdoms? | Ferdinand | 69%
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| What city was he born in? | Genoa | 69%
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| The Europeans introduced many diseases to the New World. What sexually-transmitted disease is thought to be the only disease that traveled in the opposite direction? | Syphilis | 65%
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| What island chain did Columbus stop over at on his way to the New World? | Canary Islands | 56%
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| What capital city was founded by Christopher's brother Bartholomew in 1496, making it the oldest European settlement in the Americas? | Santo Domingo | 42%
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| What is the term for the process in which people, ideas, technology, crops, and diseases mixed between the Old World and New? | Columbian {Exchange} | 34%
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