Age of Exploration

1. Which Norse explorer founded the first settlement in Greenland?

2. Who was the first European to land in North America?

3. Who was one of the first explorers to travel the Silk Road, travel around Asia and visit China?

4. Ibn Battuta was known for exploring Africa, Europe, the Middle East and India for 30 years. Where was he from?

5. Who was the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope)?

6. Where was Christopher Columbus from?

7. Why did Christopher Columbus set sails?

8. When did Christopher Columbus land for the first time in America?

9. How many journeys made Christopher Columbus across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain?

10. Which of the following ships did not belong to Christopher Columbus?

11. Who discovered a sea route to India in 1497-1498?

12. America was named after which explorer?

13. Which explorer named Florida and became the first governor of Puerto Rico?

14. Which explorer is often credited as being the first person to have circumnavigated the globe?

15. Who completed the first circumnavigation of the globe in a single expedition after its captain was killed?

16. Which nationality was Ferdinand Magellan?

17. Which explorer is known for defeating the Aztec Empire and taking Mexico in the name of Spain in 1521?

18. Who conquered the Incas in 1532?

19. English courtier Sir Walter Raleigh made two trips to search for "El Dorado". Where did he believe it was located?

20. What was the name of explorer Hudson who sailed the Atlantic Coast, before discovering what would become the Hudson river?

21. Which explorer settled Quebec in 1608, mapped the St. Lawrence river and created a colony for “New France”?

22. In 1643, who led the first known European expedition to reach New Zealand and to sight the Fiji islands?

23. Who explored the Siberian Far East and Alaska and claimed it for Russia?

24. Which English naval captain explored much of the Pacific including New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii?

25. Who was the French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania?

26. Gordon Laing reached Timbuktu in the early 19th century. Where is it located?

27. What was the name of the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the USA from 1804 to 1806?

28. Which continent were David Livingstone and Henry Stanley exploring?

29. Which explorer led the lost expedition to the Arctic departing in 1845, when all 129 men on board died?

30. What was the name of an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days?

31. Who first sailed through the Northwest Passage from 1903 to 1906?

32. When did Robert Peary conquest the North Pole?

33. Who led the first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole?

34. Who led the infamous Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914?

35. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to ever reach what summit?

36. What was the name of an oceanographer, an explorer, and probably the most famous undersea explorer in recent history?