Portuguese Explorers by Picture - Statistics

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Answer Stats

Group	images	Answer	% Correct
15th century	First European to reach India by sea in 1498	Vasco da Gama	100%
16th century	Led the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1519 - 1522	Ferdinand Magellan	57%
15th century	Patron of explorers, sponsored voyages along the West African coast and established a school of navigation at Sagres	Prince Henry the Navigator	57%
16th century	Governor of Portuguese India, conquered Goa (India), Malacca (Malaysia), and Ormuz (Persian Gulf) in the 1510s	Afonso de Albuquerque	43%
15th century	First European to sail around the southern tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope) in 1488	Bartolomeu Dias	43%
15th century	Credited with discovering Brazil in 1500	Pedro Álvares Cabral	43%
16th century	Explored the South Atlantic in the 1500s and gave his name to the remote Atlantic islands	Tristão da Cunha	43%
15th century	Explored the West African coast sailing up the Congo and Zaire rivers in the 1480s	Diogo Cão	29%
20th century	Completed the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic, flying from Portugal to Brazil in 1922	Gago Coutinho	14%
15th century	First European to sail past Cape Bojador in 1434	Gil Eanes	14%
15th century	Explorered the Northeast coasts of North America, including the large Labrador peninsula in 1498	João Fernandes Lavrador	14%
15th century	Discovered and settled the Madeira Islands in 1418 - 1420	João Gonçalves Zarco	14%
20th century		Sacadura Cabral	14%
19th century	Explored Africa, becoming one of the first Europeans to cross the continent from west to east in the 1870s - 1880s	Alexandre de Serpa Pinto	0%
17th century	Bandeirante that explored the Amazon and interior of South America in the 1600s	António Raposo Tavares	0%
16th century	Led secret Portuguese voyages, possibly reaching Australia in the 1520s	Cristóvão de Mendonça	0%
15th century	Explored the West African coast and discovered Cape Verde in 1460s	Diogo Gomes	0%
16th century	Claimed to be the first European to set foot in Japan in the 1540s	Fernão Mendes Pinto	0%
19th century	Explored central Africa and mapped a route from Angola to Mozambique in the 1870s–1880s	Hermenegildo Capelo	0%
15th century	Possibly discovered parts of North America in the 1470s	João Vaz Corte-Real	0%
17th century	Led the first European expedition up the entire Amazon River in the 1630s	Pedro Teixeira	0%
15th century	Diplomat and spy that explored trade routes to India and Ethiopia in 1487 - 1490s	Pêro da Covilhã	0%
19th century		Roberto Ivens	0%