Explorers Quiz

Name the famous explorers throughout history

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Hint	Nationality	Explorer
1) Often credited with "discovering" America but only reached the Bahamas	Genoese	Christopher Columbus
2) His expedition led the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1522	Portuguese	Ferdinand Magellan
3) Norse explorer who first discovered North America, reaching Canada in the 1000s	Icelandic	Leif Erikson
4) His explorations led to the discovery of the NY river and Canadian bay that bear his name	English	Henry Hudson
5) Discovered the first route to India via the Cape of Good Hope to open European trade	Portuguese	Vasco da Gama
6) Led the first European expedition to Puerto Rico and later explored Florida trying to find the legendary Fountain of Youth	Spanish	Ponce De Leon
7) Discovered the Amazon river delta and stated that the Americas were a new continent, not Asia	Florentine	Amerigo Vespucci
8) Introduced European trade to Central Asia/China along the Silk Road and did missions for Kublai Khan	Venetian	Marco Polo
9) Charted the coasts of Australia, New Zealand, Tasmania and much of the remote Pacific	English	James Cook
10) Explored the area of Virginia, which he named the territory after the Queen. The capital of North Carolina bears his name	English	Walter Raleigh
11) First astronaut to walk on the moon	American	Neil Armstrong
12) Commanded the legendary treasure fleet and explored much of SE Asia, the Middle East and Africa	Chinese	Zheng He
13) His voyages discovered the Azores and much of the West African coastline	Portuguese	Henry the Navigator
14) Landed in "new found land" in Canada, which he claimed for England	Venetian-English	John Cabot
15) Regarded as the discoverer of Brazil when his expedition landed and claimed it for Portugal	Portuguese	Pedro Alvares Cabral

Hint	Nationality	Explorer
16) His expedition was the first to reach the South Pole in frigid Antarctica	Norwegian	Roald Amundsen
17) She completed the first non stop flight across the Atlantic	American	Amelia Earhart
18) Charted the course to the Pacific across the newly bought Louisiana territory	Americans	Lewis and Clark
19) Explorer who named Venezuela and explored Guyana, Curacao, Columbia and the southern Caribbean	Spanish	Alonso de Ojeda
20) His expeditions mapped Baffin island, Labrador and the strait that bears his name	English	John Davis
21) Spanish conquistador who claimed Mexico for Spain and conquered the Aztecs	Spanish	Hernan Cortes
23) Mapped a significant area from Africa to Asia, bringing Muslim culture into different parts of the world	Moroccan	Ibn Battuta
24) First European to cross Africa from coast to coast and named Victoria Falls, which the town in Zambia bears his name	Scottish	David Livingstone
25) Charted the length of the Congo river and circumnavigated Lake Victoria while searching for the above	Welsh	Henry Morton Stanley
26) His explorations set a new "furthest south" record in the Antarctic, reaching the magnetic Pole, and climbed Mt Erebus	Irish	Ernest Shackleton
27) Mapped the St Lawrence river and gulf and claimed Canada for France	French	Jacques Cartier
28) First European to discover the Mississippi river area and explored much of the American South	Spanish	Hernando De Soto
29) First explorer to reach New Zealand and chart the Fiji and Tongan islands. An Australian island bears his name	Dutch	Abel Tasman
30) First European to reach the legendary city of Timbuktu in Mali	Scottish	Alexander Gordon Laing

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Level 62

Jan 15, 2026

British pair John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight. Also, "Henry Stanley" isn't accepted. Liked the quiz apart from that though, and learned some stuff from it.

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