Famous Sailors - Statistics

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This quiz has been taken 21 times
The average score is 14 of 20

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Hint	Sailor	% Correct
European who 'discovered' the New World in 1492	Christopher Columbus	100%
Portuguese explorer who was the first European to reach India by sea	Vasco da Gama	95%
Naturalist who sailed the HMS Beagle and famously visited the Galapagos Islands	Charles Darwin	90%
English explorer who sailed the HMS Endeavour and claimed Australia for the British	James Cook	90%
Venetian explorer who recorded his travels throughout China during the 13th century	Marco Polo	90%
Biblical character who took two of each animal onto an ark and survived the worldwide flood	Noah	90%
English navigator who is the namesake of the largest bay in Canada and the main river of New York City	Henry Hudson	85%
Royal navy admiral and hero who lost his life on the HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson	85%
Elizabethan statesman, namesake of a city in North Carolina, was executed for treason in 1618	Walter Raleigh	85%
Portuguese man who was the first person to circumnavigate the globe	Ferdinand Magellan	80%
British privateer who was the second man to circumnavigate the globe	Francis Drake	80%
Dutchman who discovered Van Diemen's Land and New Zealand among other places	Abel Tasman	75%
Norse explorer who is generally considered the first European to reach continental America	Leif Erikson	70%
Irish Antarctic explorer who led the entire crew of the HMS Endurance to safety after it was crushed by ice	Ernest Shackleton	55%
Victim of the Mutiny on the HMS Bounty and the Rum Rebellion	William Bligh	55%
Pirate more better-known as Blackbeard	Edward Teach	50%
Austro-Hungarian naval officer who refused Nazi service, depicted in The Sound of Music	Georg von Trapp	50%
He worked for the White Star Line and skippered the doomed RMS Titanic	Edward J. Smith	40%
Scottish-born American Revolutionary War hero who is called the "father of the U.S. Navy"	John Paul Jones	35%
Ming Dynasty admiral who commanded seven "treasure voyages" across Asia	Zheng He	30%

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