World Explorer's quiz - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
Columbus first sailed with the ships: The Nina, Santa Maria and? Pinta
90%
Which British explorer died on the island of Hawaii in 1779? James Cook
87%
Who was head of the Mongol Empire when Marco Polo visitied? Kublai Khan
83%
Who was the sherpa that climbed Mt Everest along with Edmund Hillary? Tenzing Norgay
67%
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%
Which Dutch explorer has a national park in the South Island of New Zealand named after him? Abel Tasman
57%
Nicknamed El Draque (The Dragon) by the Spanish, this privateer raided along South America Francis Drake
57%
Which Italian from Genoa sailed for the British Empire and discovered New Foundland (Anglicized)? John Cabot
57%
Who was the commandeer of the legendary Chinese Treasure Fleet in the 15th century? Zheng He
53%
Which explorer's ship, The Endurance, was lost in Antarctica in 1915? Ernest Shackleton
50%
Which explorer has a species of penguin named after them? Ferdinand Magellan
37%
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%
Which British explorer visited Mecca and was the first European to see Lake Tanganyika? Richard Francis Burton
20%
Which Frenchman lead 3 expeditions into the interior of the St. Lawrence River area and mapped the Gulf of St Lawrence? Jacques Cartier
17%
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%
The great muslim explorer, Ibn Battuta, trained as what for a profession? Judge
10%
Which Scottish explorer was the first European to navigate large parts of the Niger River? Mungo Park
10%
Sir John Franklin's ill-fated voyage to the Arctic in 1845 had to ships - the HMS Erebus and the HMS? Terror
10%
Which ancient Greek explorer is thought to have circumnavigated Britain and Ireland around 325 BCE? Pytheas
7%
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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