Play Great Explorers Trivia Online

1. 01Which explorer reached the Americas in 1492 while sailing for Spain?
2. 02Which Venetian merchant became famous for his travels to China in the 13th century?
3. 03The expedition started by Ferdinand Magellan is famous for being the first to do what?
4. 04Who led the first expedition confirmed to reach the South Pole, in 1911?
5. 05Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first climbers confirmed to reach the summit of which mountain?
6. 06The continents of North and South America are named after which Italian explorer?
7. 07Which Portuguese explorer was the first European to reach India by sea, in 1498?
8. 08Captain James Cook charted the eastern coast of which continent in 1770?
9. 09Lewis and Clark led a famous expedition across which country in the early 1800s?
10. 10Ibn Battuta, one of history's greatest travelers, set out in the 14th century from which country?
11. 11Ferdinand Magellan died during his expedition in which present-day country?
12. 12Ernest Shackleton's ship, crushed by Antarctic ice in 1915, was called what?
13. 13Which Spanish conquistador led the expedition that toppled the Aztec Empire?
14. 14Which Spanish conquistador led the conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru?
15. 15Which Chinese admiral led huge treasure fleets across the Indian Ocean in the early 1400s?
16. 16Norse explorer Leif Erikson is credited with reaching part of which continent around the year 1000?
17. 17Which Portuguese explorer was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa, in 1488?
18. 18Journalist Henry Morton Stanley famously greeted which explorer in Africa in 1871?

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