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9 for 10 - Explorers Trivia Quiz

Ten questions about explorers. If you get the right answers to the first nine questions, the initial letter of each answer will spell the answer to the last question.

A multiple-choice quiz by minch. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
minch

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
95,562

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
2956

Question 1 of 10

1. This Italian explorer visited the north coast of South America at the end of the fifteenth century. The American continent was named for him. Who was he? Hint

Vespucci

Drake

Columbus

Balboa

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who was the second space explorer to set foot on the moon?

Answer: (One Word Last name)

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Question 3 of 10

3. Who was the Norwegian who was the first to cross the ice fields of Greenland and who also attempted to reach the North Pole in the late nineteenth century? Hint

Heyerdahl

Amundsen

Nansen

Nordenskjold

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Question 4 of 10

4. Which explorer was killed in Hawaii in 1779 on his third voyage of exploration to the Pacific? Hint

Cook

Tasman

Bering

Hudson

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which Spanish explorer sailed down the Amazon in 1541? Hint

Pizarro

Ponce de Leon

De Soto

Orellana

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Question 6 of 10

6. The first European to set foot in this South American country, that lies just to the north of the Rio de la Plata, was Juan Diaz de Solis. What was the country? Hint

Argentina

Uruguay

Brazil

Chile

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Question 7 of 10

7. Who was the Italian explorer who searched for a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific and who also explored the northeast Atlantic coast? Hint

Marco Polo

Columbus

Verrazano

Vespucci

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Question 8 of 10

8. This explorer is said to be the first European to set foot on the North American mainland.

Answer: (Last name)

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Question 9 of 10

9. This Antarctic explorer also located the Magnetic North Pole in 1831. Hint

Ross

Shackleton

Van Dieman

Byrd

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Question 10 of 10

10. If you take the first letter of your answers to the above questions you will have the name of the an explorer of the West Coast of North America.

Answer: (One word)

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. This Italian explorer visited the north coast of South America at the end of the fifteenth century. The American continent was named for him. Who was he?

Answer: Vespucci

Amerigo Vespucci claimed to have discovered the Americas before any other explorer. This is open to dispute. However he did explore the north coast of South America in 1499 and 1500.

2. Who was the second space explorer to set foot on the moon?

Answer: Aldrin

Edwin Aldrin was the second man to step on the moon in July 1969. Neil Armstrong was the first.

3. Who was the Norwegian who was the first to cross the ice fields of Greenland and who also attempted to reach the North Pole in the late nineteenth century?

Answer: Nansen

Fridtjof Nansen was not only an explorer but also a politician who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1922.

4. Which explorer was killed in Hawaii in 1779 on his third voyage of exploration to the Pacific?

Answer: Cook

Captain James Cook made three voyages to the Pacific. On the first, starting in 1768, he visited Tahiti, New Zealand and the east coast of Australia. On the second, also to the South Pacific, he sailed as far southas the edge of the Antartic ice. His final voyage, starting in 1776, was to the northwest coast of North America and to Hawaii. He was killed while in Hawaii in 1779.

5. Which Spanish explorer sailed down the Amazon in 1541?

Answer: Orellana

Francisco Orellana visited Peru in 1535. He crossed the Andes to the Napo River. He sailed down this until he reached the Amazon and continued his voyage eventually reaching the Atlantic. He described meeting some female warriors whom he called the Amazons after the Amazonz of Greek mythology.

6. The first European to set foot in this South American country, that lies just to the north of the Rio de la Plata, was Juan Diaz de Solis. What was the country?

Answer: Uruguay

Juan Diaz de Solis was a Spanish navigator. The Portuguese established the first European settlement in Uruguay in 1680.

7. Who was the Italian explorer who searched for a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific and who also explored the northeast Atlantic coast?

Answer: Verrazano

Giovanni da Verrazano was asked by King Francis I of France to find a new route to China. He didn't do this but did explore the Atlantic coast from what is now Nova Scotia down to the now North Carolina.
He gave his name to the Verrazano Narrows Bridge in New York.

8. This explorer is said to be the first European to set foot on the North American mainland.

Answer: Ericson

Supposedly the Norseman, Leif Ericson, was blown off course when he was sailing to Greenland. Greenland had already been discovered by Eric the Red. He named the area Vinland, because of the grapes that grew there. It is not known exactly where it is.

9. This Antarctic explorer also located the Magnetic North Pole in 1831.

Answer: Ross

Sir James Ross was a British explorer. In the Antarctic he discovered Victoria Land and the sea which bears his name.

10. If you take the first letter of your answers to the above questions you will have the name of the an explorer of the West Coast of North America.

Answer: Vancouver

George Vancouver was a British explorer who sailed the coasts of Australia and New Zealand as well as North America's West Coast. His name lives on in the cities of Vancouver, British Columbia, which lies at the mouth of the Fraser River. A river named for another explorer.
Vancouver, Washington is on the banks of the Columbia River.

Source: Author minch

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