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Famous Sailors - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 36 times
- The average score is 14 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Sailor | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| European who 'discovered' the New World in 1492 | Christopher Columbus | 100%
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| Naturalist who sailed the HMS Beagle and famously visited the Galapagos Islands | Charles Darwin | 94%
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| Biblical character who took two of each animal onto an ark and survived the worldwide flood | Noah | 94%
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| Portuguese explorer who was the first European to reach India by sea | Vasco da Gama | 91%
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| English explorer who sailed the HMS Endeavour and claimed Australia for the British | James Cook | 88%
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| Venetian explorer who recorded his travels throughout China during the 13th century | Marco Polo | 88%
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| Portuguese man who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe | Ferdinand Magellan | 85%
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| Royal navy admiral and hero who lost his life on the HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar | Horatio Nelson | 85%
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| English navigator who is the namesake of the largest bay in Canada and the main river of New York City | Henry Hudson | 82%
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| Elizabethan statesman, namesake of a city in North Carolina, was executed for treason in 1618 | Walter Raleigh | 76%
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| Dutchman who discovered Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand among other places | Abel Tasman | 71%
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| Norse explorer who is generally considered the first European to reach continental America | Leif Erikson | 71%
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| British privateer who was the second man to circumnavigate the globe | Francis Drake | 68%
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| Pirate more better-known as Blackbeard | Edward Teach | 47%
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| Victim of the Mutiny on the HMS Bounty and the Rum Rebellion | William Bligh | 47%
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| He worked for the White Star Line and skippered the doomed RMS Titanic | Edward J. Smith | 44%
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| Irish Antarctic explorer who led the entire crew of the HMS Endurance to safety after it was crushed by ice | Ernest Shackleton | 44%
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| Austro-Hungarian naval officer who refused Nazi service, depicted in The Sound of Music | Georg von Trapp | 44%
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| Scottish-born American Revolutionary War hero who is called the "father of the U.S. Navy" | John Paul Jones | 29%
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| Ming Dynasty admiral who commanded seven "treasure voyages" across Asia | Zheng He | 26%
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