World Explorer Trivia Quiz

Greetings exploration fanatics! It has been a long time since the era for exploration has gone but it's time we remember these brave explorers who made a big difference in our lives. Have fun!

  1.  1

    Who was the first man to set foot in Eastern Australia and to map Newfoundland?

    • Ferdinand Magellan
    • Christopher Columbus
    • James Cook
    • William Bligh
  2.  2

    Who was this Spanish conqueror that was the first one to cross the Isthmus of Panama and reach the Pacific Ocean?

    • Francisco Pizarro
    • Vasco Nunez de Balboa
    • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
    • Ferdinand Magellan
  3.  3

    In 1513 who served as a mayor of Santa Maria la Antigua del Darien in Panama?

    • Francisco Pizarro
    • Vasco Nunez de Balboa
    • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
    • Ferdinand Magellan
  4.  4

    Who discovered Chile?

    • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
    • Juan de la Cosa
    • Diego de Almagro
    • Anthony Jenkinson
  5.  5

    Who beheaded Diego de Almagro?

    • Francisco Pizarro
    • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
    • Ferdinand Magellan
    • Juan de la Cosa
  6.  6

    Who discovered the Niger River in Africa?

    • Anthony Jenkinson
    • Mungo Park
    • Alexander Anderson
    • Thomas Park
  7.  7

    Which of these European conquistador was buried secretly so as not to reveal his being mortal?

    • Bartolomeo de Pizarro
    • Hernando de Soto
    • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
    • Mungo Park
  8.  8

    Who completed the first documented navigation regarding the length of the Amazon River?

    • Bartolomeo de Pizarro
    • Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa
    • Francisco de Orellana
    • Hernando de Soto
  9.  9

    Who was the first to explore both north and south Poles?

    • Roald Amundsen
    • Alexander Anderson
    • Thor Heyerdahl
    • Lief Dietrichson
  10. 10

    In which sea was Roald Amundsen and Lief Dietrichson believed to have disappeared?

    • Seven Seas
    • China Sea
    • Barents Sea
    • Black Sea
  11. 11

    Who is this explorer who became a hero in a battle with the Spanish Armada and later on died in Panama?

    • Sir Walter Raleigh
    • Anthony Perkinson
    • Anthony Jenkinson
    • Sir Francis Drake
  12. 12

    Who was renowned as an Elizabethan explorer and courtier?

    • Sir Walter Raleigh
    • Anthony Perkinson
    • Anthony Jenkinson
    • Sir Francis Drake
  13. 13

    Who was documented to have sailed very close to Antarctica and sailed so far south?

    • Sir Walter Raleigh
    • Anthony Perkinson
    • Anthony Jenkinson
    • Sir Francis Drake
  14. 14

    Who published an atlas of the Mediterranean and discovered most of the northerly islands of this planet and in which one of the sea was named in his honor?

    • Jan Carstenz
    • Anthony Jenkinson
    • Willem Barents
    • Sir Walter Raleigh
  15. 15

    Who was the first to describe wombat, he is a botanist and extensively explored Australia?

    • Langdon Warner
    • George Bass
    • Sir Walter Raleigh
    • Jan Carstenz
  16. 16

    Who named the straight separating Tasmania and Australia as the Bass Strait?

    • Langdon Warner
    • George Bass
    • Sir Walter Raleigh
    • Jan Carstenz
  17. 17

    Who is this U.S. Naval officer and explorer of the Amazon who, as captain, sinks the boat and went down with it after it was mortally damaged during a hurricane?

    • Sir Walter Raleigh
    • Jan Carstenz
    • William Lewis Herndon
    • Harold William Tilman
  18. 18

    He is one of the famous Irish Antarctic explorers who journeyed in an open boat. Who is he?

    • Robert Peary
    • Ernest Shackleton
    • Harold William Tilman
    • William Lewis Herndon
  19. 19

    Who discovered Aleutian Islands and explored most of the northern Pacific?

    • Robert Peary
    • Vitus Bering
    • Harold William Tilman
    • William Lewis Herndon
  20. 20

    This explorer spent most of his time searching for the Northwest Passage and an explorer of the eastern United States.

    • Harold William Tilman
    • William Lewis Herndon
    • Henry Hudson
    • Edmund Kennedy

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