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Dangerous Waters: Cape Horn - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 4 times
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- The average score is 4 of 10
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What trade product was not an underlying driver for European colonizations in Asia? | Gold | 100%
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| Major transportation advancements came in the 20th century. What had the most impact on traversing the Atlantic to Pacific trade routes? (All answers played a part) | Panama Canal | 100%
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| Sailors who crewed and survived the rounding of Cape Horn earned privileges. What privilege did they NOT earn? | To bring a black cat on the next voyage to bring luck | 100%
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| What infamouse captain retreated eastward from the Horn adding thousands of miles to the voyage, ultimately disaffecting the crew to mutiny? (All captains provoked mutinies.) | William Bligh | 100%
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| Two powerful ocean currents converge and collide creating steady 'normal' wall waves upwards 40 feet. What are the converging currents? | Antarctic Circumpolar and Brazil | 0%
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| What presented the largest navigational problem when crossing open oceans? | Determining Longitude | 0%
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| What country's captain first successfully rounded and named Cape Horn? | Dutch | 0%
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| What captain didn't navigate Cape Horn but did first discover it? | Francisco de Hoces (Spanish) | 0%
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| What European Empire established an eastern maritime route to Java and dominated spice trade in the 17th century? | French Empire | 0%
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| What is the prime factor to the ferocity and danger of rounding the Horn? (All answers are factors) | Southern Latitude Winds | 0%
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