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Age of Exploration

What do you know about discoveries of new worlds and trading routes?
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1. Which Norse explorer founded the first settlement in Greenland?
Erik the Red
Ragnar Lodbrok
Roald Amundsen
Leif Erikson
2. Who was the first European to land in North America?
Christopher Columbus
Ferdinand Magellan
Leif Ericson
Amerigo Vespucci
3. Who was one of the first explorers to travel the Silk Road, travel around Asia and visit China?
Abel Tasman
Marco Polo
Christopher Columbus
Vasco da Gama
4. Ibn Battuta was known for exploring Africa, Europe, the Middle East and India for 30 years. Where was he from?
Algeria
Morocco
Egypt
Saudi Arabia
5. Who was the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope)?
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
6. Where was Christopher Columbus from?
Genova
Venice
Lisbon
Barcelona
7. Why did Christopher Columbus set sails?
To find the Northwest Passage
To discover North America
To find a faster route to Asia
To find gold in new lands
8. When did Christopher Columbus land for the first time in America?
1502
1498
1492
1493
9. How many journeys made Christopher Columbus across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain?
1 journey
4 journeys
2 journeys
6 journeys
10. Which of the following ships did not belong to Christopher Columbus?
Nina
Pinta
Santa Maria
San Antonio
11. Who discovered a sea route to India in 1497-1498?
James Cook
Vasco da Gama
Marco Polo
Francis Drake
12. America was named after which explorer?
Cortes
Columbus
Vespucci
Pizarro
13. Which explorer named Florida and became the first governor of Puerto Rico?
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Juan Ponce De León
Jacques Cartier
Francisco Pizarro
14. Which explorer is often credited as being the first person to have circumnavigated the globe?
Willem Barentsz
John Cabot
Ferdinand Magellan
Christopher Columbus
15. Who completed the first circumnavigation of the globe in a single expedition after its captain was killed?
Henry Hudson
James Cook
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Christopher Columbus
16. Which nationality was Ferdinand Magellan?
French
Portuguese
Italian
Spanish
17. Which explorer is known for defeating the Aztec Empire and taking Mexico in the name of Spain in 1521?
John Cabot
Francisco Pizarro
Amerigo Vespucci
Hernan Cortes
18. Who conquered the Incas in 1532?
Christopher Columbus
Hernan Cortes
Amerigo Vespucci
Francisco Pizarro
19. English courtier Sir Walter Raleigh made two trips to search for "El Dorado". Where did he believe it was located?
Africa
Asia
North America
South America
20. What was the name of explorer Hudson who sailed the Atlantic Coast, before discovering what would become the Hudson river?
Henry
Christopher
James
John
21. Which explorer settled Quebec in 1608, mapped the St. Lawrence river and created a colony for “New France”?
Samuel De Champlain
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Sir Francis Drake
Jean François La Pérouse
22. In 1643, who led the first known European expedition to reach New Zealand and to sight the Fiji islands?
Abel Tasman
James Cook
Hernando de Soto
John Cabot
23. Who explored the Siberian Far East and Alaska and claimed it for Russia?
Abel Tasman
John Cabot
Vitus Bering
Leif Ericson
24. Which English naval captain explored much of the Pacific including New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii?
James Cook
Henry Hudson
Robert Peary
Francis Drake
25. Who was the French Navy officer and explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania?
Francisco Vásquez de Coronado
Jean François La Pérouse
Jacques Cartier
Juan Ponce de León
26. Gordon Laing reached Timbuktu in the early 19th century. Where is it located?
in Asia
in Central America
in South America
in Africa
27. What was the name of the first American expedition to cross the western portion of the USA from 1804 to 1806?
Lewis & Clark Expedition
Ham & McKenzie Expedition
Smith & Frazier Expedition
Pond & Thompson Expedition
28. Which continent were David Livingstone and Henry Stanley exploring?
North America
Africa
South America
Australia
29. Which explorer led the lost expedition to the Arctic departing in 1845, when all 129 men on board died?
Sir Francis Drake
James Cook
John Franklin
John Cabot
30. What was the name of an American journalist who was widely known for her record-breaking trip around the world in 72 days?
Kelly Bly
Billie Bly
Sally Bly
Nellie Bly
31. Who first sailed through the Northwest Passage from 1903 to 1906?
Francis Drake
Jacques Cartier
Roald Amundsen
John Cabot
32. When did Robert Peary conquest the North Pole?
1609
1909
1809
1509
33. Who led the first expedition to reach the geographic South Pole?
Robert Scott
Roald Amundsen
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
Abel Tasman
34. Who led the infamous Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914?
Ernest Shackleton
Vitus Bering
James Cook
Sir Francis Drake
35. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first people to ever reach what summit?
Kilimanjaro
Aconcagua
Mount Everest
Mount Blanc
36. What was the name of an oceanographer, an explorer, and probably the most famous undersea explorer in recent history?
Alexander MacKenzie
Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Cartier
Pedro Álvares Cabral
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