Statistics for Great Explorers

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The explorer after whom America was named	Amerigo Vespucci	92%
Discovered America in 1492	Christopher Columbus	83%
Norse explorer who founded the first settlement in Greenland	Erik the Red	67%
Explored much of the Pacific including New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii	James Cook	67%
Travelled the Silk Road, around Asia and visited China	Marco Polo	67%
First European to reach New Zealand	Abel Tasman	58%
One of first two people to ever reach Mount Everest	Edmund Hillary	58%
First person to have circumnavigated the globe	Ferdinand Magellan	58%
Defeated the Aztec Empire and took Mexico in the name of Spain	Hernan Cortes	58%
Norse explorer who was the first European to land in North America	Leif Ericson	58%
First explorer to reach the geographic South Pole	Roald Amundsen	58%
First European to discover Victoria Falls	David Livingstone	50%
Conquered the Incas in 1532	Francisco Pizarro	50%
Probably the most famous undersea explorer in recent history	Jacques Cousteau	50%
French explorer whose expedition vanished in Oceania	Jean François La Pérouse	50%
Crossed the Pacific Ocean in a hand built raft the Kon-Tiki	Thor Heyerdahl	50%
Explored the Siberian far east and Alaska and claimed it for Russia	Vitus Bering	50%
One of two Americans who led first expedition to cross the western portion of the USA	William Clark	50%
Carried out the second circumnavigation of the world, between 1577 to 1580	Francis Drake	42%
Berber explorer of Africa, Europe, the Middle East and India for 30 years	Ibn Battuta	42%
Explored and claimed what is now Canada for France	Jacques Cartier	42%
First person to conquest the North Pole	Robert Peary	42%
Discovered a sea route to India	Vasco da Gama	42%
First European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope	Bartolomeu Dias	33%
Led the infamous Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1914	Ernest Shackleton	33%
First circumnavigation of the globe in a single expedition after its captain was killed	Juan S. Elcano	33%
American journalist who travelled around the world in 72 days	Nellie Bly	33%
Reached Timbuktu in the early 19th century	Gordon Laing	25%
Known for his search for the source of the Nile	Henry Stanley	25%
Considered the first European to land in North America since the Vikings	John Cabot	25%
Led the lost expedition to the Arctic departing in 1845	John Franklin	25%
Founded the first European settlement in Puerto Rico	Juan Ponce de León	25%
Made two trips to search for "El Dorado"	Sir Walter Raleigh	17%