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Explorers and Adventurers - Explorers

Man has a tendency towards curiosity. If we don't know how something works, we will break it down until we do. If we don't know what is 'out there', we'll go and find out. This picture quiz looks at ten brave explorers, both past and present.

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  1. What is the title of the book produced by Christopher Columbus in 1505?

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    • Born: 31 October 1451
    • Place: Genoa
    • Nationality: Italian
    • He was an explorer, coloniser and navigator
    • He completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
    • His father owned a cheese stand at which young Christopher worked as a helper
    • Between 1492 and 1503, Columbus completed voyages between Spain and the Americas
    • Columbus called one of the islands he landed on (in what is now The Bahamas) San Salvador

  2. Which monarch awarded Francis Drake a knighthood in 1581?

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    • Born: 1544
    • Place: Tavistock
    • Nationality: British
    • He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588
    • His exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards
    • He was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver and politician
    • On 26 September, Golden Hind sailed into Plymouth with Drake and 59 remaining crew aboard

  3. Between 1918-1925 what was the name of the ship that Roald Amundsen sailed in?

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    • Born: 16 July 1872
    • Place: Borge, Norway
    • Nationality: Norwegian
    • He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912
    • He was the first person to (undisputedly) reach both the North and South Poles
    • He learned to use sled dogs and to wear animal skins in lieu of heavy, woollen parkas
    • Amundsen disappeared on 18 June 1928 while flying on a rescue mission with a Norwegian pilot
    • It is believed that the plane crashed in fog in the Barents Sea

  4. How many children did Vasco da Gama have?

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    • Born: 1460-1469
    • Place: Sines or Vidigueira
    • Nationality: Portuguese
    • He was a Portuguese explorer
    • He was one of the most successful in the Age of Discovery
    • He was the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to India
    • For a short time in 1524 he was the Governor of Portuguese India, under the title of Viceroy
    • On 8 July 1497 Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four ships with a crew of 170 men from Lisbon

  5. On which island was James Cook killed?

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    • Born: 7 November 1728
    • Place: Marton (Now Middlesborough)
    • Nationality: British
    • He was a British explorer, navigator and cartographer
    • He rose to the rank of captain in the Royal Navy
    • He saw action in the Seven Years' War
    • In three voyages Cook sailed thousands of miles across largely uncharted areas of the globe
    • He mapped lands from New Zealand to Hawaii in the Pacific Ocean in greater detail and on a scale not previously achieved

  6. Golden Bay in New Zealand was originally named what by Abel Tasman?

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    • Born: 1603
    • Place: Lutjegast, Dutch Republic
    • Nationality: Dutch
    • He was a Dutch seafarer, explorer and merchant
    • He was best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644 in the service of the VOC (United East India Company)
    • His was the first known European expedition to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)

  7. Which animal has been named after Marco Polo?

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    • Born: 1254
    • Place: Venice, Italy
    • Nationality: Italian
    • He was a Venetian merchant traveller
    • He had an influence on European cartography, leading to the introduction of the Fra Mauro map
    • His pioneering journey inspired Christopher Columbus and others
    • Marco was imprisoned, and dictated his stories to a cellmate
    • He was released in 1299, and became a wealthy merchant
    • He died in 1324 and was buried in San Lorenzo

  8. In the photograph, which one is Ernest Shackleton?

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    • Born: 15 February 1874
    • Place: Kilkea near Athy, County Kildare
    • Nationality: Irish
    • He was an Anglo-Irish polar explorer
    • He was one of the principal figures of the period known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration
    • His first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s Discovery Expedition
    • In 1921 he went back to the Antarctic with the Shackleton-Rowett Expedition

  9. What is the name of the submersible in which Robert Ballard took his first dive in 1969?

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    • Born: 30 June 1942
    • Place: Wichita, Kansas
    • Nationality: American
    • He was a former United States Navy officer
    • He was a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island
    • He is most famous for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985
    • Most recently he discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002

  10. 'Cortez the Killer' is a song about Hernan Cortes by which artist from his 1975 album, Zuma?

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    • Born: 1485
    • Place: Medellín, Castile
    • Nationality: Spanish
    • He was 1st Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca
    • He was a Spanish Conquistador
    • He led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
    • Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonisers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonisation of the Americas
    • After he overthrew the Aztec Empire, Cortés was awarded the title of Marqués del Valle de Oaxaca
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