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Famous Explorers - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 465 times
- The average score is 12 of 23
Answer Stats
| Hint | Nationality | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|---|
| Credited with discovering America | Italian | Christopher Columbus | 97%
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| First to explore the moon | American | Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin | 84%
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| Discovered the New World; Greenland | Norse | Erik the Red | 77%
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| Explored much of Asia and China | Italian | Marco Polo | 75%
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| First to circumnavigate the globe | Portuguese | Ferdinand Magellan | 74%
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| Explorer of Mexico; conquered the Aztecs | Spanish | Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro | 72%
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| Found a sea route from Europe to India | Spanish | Vasco da Gama | 70%
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| Sent to explore the Louisiana Purchase | American | Meriwether Lewis & William Clark | 64%
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| Known for his underwater explorations | French | Jacques Cousteau | 63%
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| Explorer and first atop Mt. Everest | British/Sherpa | Sir Edmund Hillary; Tenzing Norgay | 61%
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| First man in space | Russian | Yuri Gagarin | 61%
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| Explored the NW Passage; Hudson Bay | English | Henry Hudson | 53%
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| 1st to the South & North Poles, NW Passage | Norwegian | Roald Amundsen | 53%
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| Explored S. America; conquered the Incas | Spanish | Francisco Pizarro | 52%
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| Viking explorer of Newfoundland | Norse | Leif Eriksson | 52%
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| Missionary who explored east/south Africa | English | David Livingstone | 51%
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| English explorer of the U.S. coastline | English | Sir Francis Drake | 36%
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| Sought the fountain of youth in Florida | Spanish | Juan Ponce de León | 35%
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| "Discovered" the Pacific Ocean in Panama | Portuguese | Vasco Núñez de Balboa | 25%
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| 1st European to cross the Mississippi | Spanish | Hernando DeSoto | 22%
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| Found and explored the wreck of Titanic | American | Robert Ballard | 8%
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| French explorers of the Mississippi River | French, Canadian | Jacques Marquette; Louis Joliet | 5%
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| European discoverer of Niagara Falls | French | Louis Hennepin | 1%
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