Famous Explorers Quiz No. 1

[Carl]

• 1. Who was the first explorer to travel around the world in 80 days (or less) ?
  
  A. Phileas Fogg
  B. Nellie Bly
  C. Charles Lindbergh
  D. Amerlia Earhart

• 2. Which explorer rounded the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa ?
  
  A. Bartholomeu Dias
  B. Hernando de Soto
  C. Marco Polo
  D. Vasco da Gama

• 3. Who settled Jamestown, Virginia, America in 1607 ?
  
  A. Henry Hudson
  B. James Cook
  C. John Smith
  D. King James

• 4. Who discovered Florida ?
  
  A. Jacques Cartier
  B. Vitus Bering
  C. Ponce de Len
  D. Hernando de Soto

• 5. Who made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean ?
  
  A. Charles Lindbergh
  B. Orville and Wilbur Wright
  C. Glenn Curtiss
  D. John Alcock and Arthur Brown

• 6. What explorer has a river, bay, and strait named in his honour ?
  
  A. Henry Hudson
  B. William Baffin
  C. Leif Eriksson
  D. William Cook

• 7. Who discovered America ?
  
  A. Christopher Columbus
  B. Leif Eriksson
  C. Ferdinand Magellan
  D. Eric the Red

• 8. Which president sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark on their journey to the Pacific Ocean ?
  
  A. Abraham Lincoln
  B. John Adams
  C. Martin Van Buren
  D. Thomas Jefferson

• 9. Which explorer first reached the South Pole ?
  
  A. Robert Peary
  B. Ernest Shackleton
  C. Roald Amundsen
  D. Robert Falcon Scott

• 10. Which country did Marco Polo explore and introduce to Europeans ?
  
  A. China
  B. Peru
  C. Canada
  D. Antarctica

Answers will be provided next Thursday evening after 21:00.

[elcarretero]

1 A Phileas Fogg
5 A Charles Lindbergh

[gail]

6. A

[elcarretero]

10 A China

[Carl]

ANSWERS

• 1. B. Nellie Bly - an American journalist, accepted a challenge to go around the world in fewer than 80 days. In 1889, she made the journey in 72 days.

• 2. A. Bartholomeu Dias - the Portuguese explorer made the trip in 1488.

• 3. C. James Cook - left London for America in 1606 with Captain Christopher Newport.

• 4. C. Ponce de Len - in 1513 the Spanish explorer seeking the mythical "Fountain of Youth," discovered and named Florida.

• 5. D. John Alcock and Arthur Brown - the two British aviators flew the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919. Charles Lindbergh was the first to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1927.

• 6. A. Henry Hudson - from 1609 to 1610, Henry Hudson explored what is now called the Hudson River, the Hudson Bay, and the Hudson Strait.

• 7. B. Leif Erikkson - and the Vikings were the first Europeans to land on the coast of North America in the year 1000. Christopher Columbus landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492, thinking he had reached the East Indies.

• 8. D. Thomas Jefferson - in 1803, US Congress approved Jefferson's plan to search out a land route to the Pacific, to strengthen American claims to Oregon territory, and to gather information about the indigenous inhabitants and the country of the Far West. The expedition began in 1804.

• 9. C. Roald Amundsen - he arrived at the South Pole in 1911.

• 10. A. China - on about 1271, Marco Polo traveled to China (then called Cathay) with his father and uncle. They spent 20 years at the court of Kublai Khan.