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Great Explorers - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 44 times
32 since last reset
- The average score is 19 of 33
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| The explorer after whom America was named | Amerigo Vespucci | 95%
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| Discovered America in 1492 | Christopher Columbus | 90%
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| Travelled the Silk Road, around Asia and visited China | Marco Polo | 81%
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| One of first two people to ever reach Mount Everest | Edmund Hillary | 76%
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| Norse explorer who founded the first settlement in Greenland | Erik the Red | 76%
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| Explored much of the Pacific including New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii | James Cook | 76%
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| First explorer to reach the geographic South Pole | Roald Amundsen | 76%
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| First European to reach New Zealand | Abel Tasman | 71%
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| Defeated the Aztec Empire and took Mexico in the name of Spain | Hernan Cortes | 71%
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| Probably the most famous undersea explorer in recent history | Jacques Cousteau | 71%
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| French explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania | Jean François La Pérouse | 71%
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| Explored the Siberian far east and Alaska and claimed it for Russia | Vitus Bering | 71%
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| First person to have circumnavigated the globe | Ferdinand Magellan | 67%
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| Conquered the Incas in 1532 | Francisco Pizarro | 67%
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| Discovered a sea route to India | Vasco da Gama | 67%
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| First European to discover Victoria Falls | David Livingstone | 62%
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| Carried out the second circumnavigation of the world, between 1577 to 1580 | Francis Drake | 62%
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| Berber explorer of Africa, Europe, the Middle East and India for 30 years | Ibn Battuta | 62%
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| Explored and claimed what is now Canada for France | Jacques Cartier | 62%
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| Norse explorer who was the first European to land in North America | Leif Ericson | 62%
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| First person to conquest the North Pole | Robert Peary | 57%
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| Crossed the Pacific Ocean in a hand built raft the Kon-Tiki | Thor Heyerdahl | 57%
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| One of two Americans who led first expedition to cross the western portion of the USA | William Clark | 57%
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| First European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope | Bartolomeu Dias | 48%
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| Founded the first European settlement in Puerto Rico | Juan Ponce de León | 48%
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| Led the infamous Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914 | Ernest Shackleton | 43%
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| Known for his search for the source of the Nile | Henry Stanley | 38%
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| First circumnavigation of the globe in a single expedition after its captain was killed | Juan S. Elcano | 29%
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| American journalist who travelled around the world in 72 days | Nellie Bly | 29%
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| Reached Timbuktu in the early 19th century | Gordon Laing | 24%
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| Led the lost expedition to the Arctic departing in 1845 | John Franklin | 24%
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| Considered the first European to land in North America since the Vikings | John Cabot | 19%
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| Made two trips to search for "El Dorado" | Sir Walter Raleigh | 14%
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