Famous Explorers - Statistics

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Answer Stats

What	Nationality	Explorer	% Correct
"Discovered" the New World	Genoan	Christopher Columbus	98%
First person to walk on the Moon	American	Neil Armstrong	93%
European discovery of Hawaii and eastern Australia	English	James Cook	84%
Traveled through China and met Kublai Khan	Venetian	Marco Polo	83%
Credited for first circumnavigation of the Earth, but he died along the way	Portuguese	Ferdinand Magellan	74%
First sea voyage from Europe to India	Portuguese	Vasco da Gama	68%
Established settlement of Vinland, in modern day Canada	Norse	Leif Ericson	62%
Co-first climber to reach the top of Everest	New Zealand	Edmund Hillary	58%
Privateer who led the world's 2nd circumnavigation	English	Francis Drake	55%
Surveyed the Louisiana Purchase	American	William Clark	54%
Surveyed the Louisiana Purchase	American	Meriwether Lewis	53%
Led the first expedition to the South Pole	Norwegian	Roald Amundsen	50%
Explored the interior of Africa and was found by Stanley	Scottish	David Livingstone	49%
First European to reach Tasmania and New Zealand	Dutch	Abel Tasman	45%
Explored the area around modern-day New York City while looking for the Northwest Passage	English	Henry Hudson	44%
Explored the deep sea and helped develop the Aqua-Lung	French	Jacques Cousteau	42%
Co-first climber to reach the top of Everest	Nepalese	Tenzing Norgay	41%
Colonized Virginia and searched for the mythical "City of Gold"	English	Walter Raleigh	39%
Led the first European expedition to Florida, said to be looking for the Fountain of Youth	Spanish	Juan Ponce de León	24%
Explored the Puget Sound and the Strait of Georgia	English	George Vancouver	17%
Admiral who sailed a "treasure fleet" of over 300 ships from China to Africa and Arabia	Chinese	{Zheng} He	16%
First European to cross the isthmus of Panama	Spanish	Vasco Núñez de Balboa	13%