Explorers Quiz - Statistics

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Hint	Nationality	Explorer	% Correct
1) Often credited with "discovering" America but only reached the Bahamas	Genoese	Christopher Columbus	100%
24) First European to cross Africa from coast to coast andnamed Victoria Falls, which the town in Zambia bears his name	Scottish	David Livingstone	88%
2) His expedition led the first circumnavigationof the globe in 1522	Portuguese	Ferdinand Magellan	88%
4) His explorations led to the discovery ofthe NY river and Canadian bay that bear his name	English	Henry Hudson	88%
21) Spanish conquistador who claimed Mexico for Spainand conquered the Aztecs	Spanish	Hernan Cortes	88%
9) Charted the coasts of Australia, New Zealand,Tasmania and much of the remote Pacific	English	James Cook	88%
16) His expedition was the first to reach the South Polein frigid Antarctica	Norwegian	Roald Amundsen	88%
29) First explorer to reach New Zealand and chart the Fijiand Tongan islands. An Australian island bears his name	Dutch	Abel Tasman	75%
17) She completed the first non stop flight across the Atlantic	American	Amelia Earhart	75%
3) Norse explorer who first discovered NorthAmerica, reaching Canada in the 1000s	Icelandic	Leif Erikson	75%
18) Charted the course to the Pacific across the newlybought Louisiana territory	Americans	Lewis and Clark	75%
8) Introduced European trade to Central Asia/Chinaalong the Silk Road and did missions for Kublai Khan	Venetian	Marco Polo	75%
11) First astronaut to walk on the moon	American	Neil Armstrong	75%
5) Discovered the first route to India via theCape of Good Hope to open European trade	Portuguese	Vasco da Gama	75%
10) Explored the area of Virginia, which he namedthe territory after the Queen. The capital of North Carolina bears his name	English	Walter Raleigh	75%
7) Discovered the Amazon river delta and statedthat the Americas were a new continent, not Asia	Florentine	Amerigo Vespucci	50%
14) Landed in "new found land" in Canada, which heclaimed for England	Venetian-English	John Cabot	25%
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	25%
13) His voyages discovered the Azores and much ofthe West African coastline	Portuguese	Henry the Navigator	13%
28) First European to discover the Mississippi river area andexplored much of the American South	Spanish	Hernando De Soto	13%
23) Mapped a significant area from Africa to Asia, bringingMuslim culture into different parts of the world	Moroccan	Ibn Battuta	13%
20) His expeditions mapped Baffin island, Labradorand the strait that bears his name	English	John Davis	13%
12) Commanded the legendary treasure fleet andexplored much of SE Asia, the Middle East and Africa	Chinese	Zheng He	13%
30) First European to reach the legendary city of Timbuktu in Mali	Scottish	Alexander Gordon Laing	0%
19) Explorer who named Venezuela and explored Guyana, Curacao, Columbia and the southern Caribbean	Spanish	Alonso de Ojeda	0%
26) His explorations set a new "furthest south" record in theAntarctic, reaching the magnetic Pole, and climbed Mt Erebus	Irish	Ernest Shackleton	0%
25) Charted the length of the Congo river and circumnavigatedLake Victoria while searching for the above	Welsh	Henry Morton Stanley	0%
27) Mapped the St Lawrence river and gulf and claimed Canadafor France	French	Jacques Cartier	0%
15) Regarded as the discoverer of Brazil when hisexpedition landed and claimed it for Portugal	Portuguese	Pedro Alvares Cabral	0%

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