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    Leif Erikson reached latter-day Canada in the year 1000, what was the name of his father, the discoverer of Greenland?

    • Erik the Red
    • Erik Grey Beard
    • Erik Blue Tooth
  • Question of

    In what century was the fabled Northwest Passage finally navigated entirely by ship?

    • 18th
    • 19th
    • 20th
  • Question of

    What nationality were the first Europeans to voyage to India by sea in the Early Modern era?

    • Portuguese
    • Dutch
    • French
  • Question of

    Pedro Álvares Cabral is associated with the ‘discovery’ of which country?

    • Argentina
    • Brazil
    • China
  • Question of

    By what name was the great 15th century Chinese mariner Zheng He known more widely known?

    • The Six-Fingered Pirate
    • The Two-Faced Dog
    • The Three-Jewel Eunuch
  • Question of

    What nationality by birth was Vitus Bering, after whom the straits are named?

    • Danish
    • Norwegian
    • Russian
  • Question of

    Who went temporarily blind and almost starved as he led an expedition across the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia?

    • Charles Sturt
    • Matthew Flinders
    • John McDouall Stuart
  • Question of

    Who was the first journeyman to disembark on present-day USA?

    • Francis Drake
    • Juan Ponce de Leon
    • Christopher Columbus
  • Question of

    Vasco Núñez de Balboa viewed what body of water that no European had seen before?

    • Amazon River
    • Iguazu Falls
    • Pacific Ocean
  • Question of

    Which of these archipelagos was not discovered until 1913, nor charted until the early 1930s?

    • Chatham Islands
    • Severnaya Zemlya
    • South Sandwich Islands

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