| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Columbus first sailed with the ships: The Nina, Santa Maria and? | Pinta | 90%
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| Which British explorer died on the island of Hawaii in 1779? | James Cook | 87%
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| Who was head of the Mongol Empire when Marco Polo visitied? | Kublai Khan | 83%
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| Who was the sherpa that climbed Mt Everest along with Edmund Hillary? | Tenzing Norgay | 67%
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| Which U.S president was part of an expedition to map the 'River of Doubt' in the Amazon Basin after he had served his term? | Theodore Roosevelt | 63%
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| Which Dutch explorer has a national park in the South Island of New Zealand named after him? | Abel Tasman | 57%
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| Nicknamed El Draque (The Dragon) by the Spanish, this privateer raided along South America | Francis Drake | 57%
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| Which Italian from Genoa sailed for the British Empire and discovered New Foundland (Anglicized)? | John Cabot | 57%
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| Who was the commandeer of the legendary Chinese Treasure Fleet in the 15th century? | Zheng He | 53%
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| Which explorer's ship, The Endurance, was lost in Antarctica in 1915? | Ernest Shackleton | 50%
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| Which explorer has a species of penguin named after them? | Ferdinand Magellan | 37%
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| This American explorer of the Mississippi was also a Lieutenant who died in the battle of York during the War of 1812. A peak in Colorado is named after him | Zebulon Pike | 30%
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| Which British explorer visited Mecca and was the first European to see Lake Tanganyika? | Richard Francis Burton | 20%
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| Which Frenchman lead 3 expeditions into the interior of the St. Lawrence River area and mapped the Gulf of St Lawrence? | Jacques Cartier | 17%
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| This Norwegian, the first to cross the Greenland interior, also won the Nobel Peace prize for his displaced victim work after WW1 | Fridtjof Nansen | 10%
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| The great muslim explorer, Ibn Battuta, trained as what for a profession? | Judge | 10%
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| Which Scottish explorer was the first European to navigate large parts of the Niger River? | Mungo Park | 10%
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| Sir John Franklin's ill-fated voyage to the Arctic in 1845 had to ships - the HMS Erebus and the HMS? | Terror | 10%
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| Which ancient Greek explorer is thought to have circumnavigated Britain and Ireland around 325 BCE? | Pytheas | 7%
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| Along with William John Wills, this explorer and his party were the first to cross Australia from South to North | Robert Burke | 7%
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