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This quiz has been taken 33 times
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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	84%
Who was the sherpa that climbed Mt Everest along with Edmund Hillary?	Tenzing Norgay	68%
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	65%
Nicknamed El Draque (The Dragon) by the Spanish, this privateer raided along South America	Francis Drake	58%
Which Italian from Genoa sailed for the British Empire and discovered New Foundland (Anglicized)?	John Cabot	58%
Which Dutch explorer has a national park in the South Island of New Zealand named after him?	Abel Tasman	55%
Who was the commandeer of the legendary Chinese Treasure Fleet in the 15th century?	Zheng He	55%
Which explorer's ship, The Endurance, was lost in Antarctica in 1915?	Ernest Shackleton	48%
Which explorer has a species of penguin named after them?	Ferdinand Magellan	35%
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	29%
Which Frenchman lead 3 expeditions into the interior of the St. Lawrence River area and mapped the Gulf of St Lawrence?	Jacques Cartier	19%
Which British explorer visited Mecca and was the first European to see Lake Tanganyika?	Richard Francis Burton	19%
The great muslim explorer, Ibn Battuta, trained as what for a profession?	Judge	13%
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%
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	6%
Along with William John Wills, this explorer and his party were the first to cross Australia from South to North	Robert Burke	6%

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