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🧠Famous Explorers
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Questions
In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people confirmed to reach the summit of which mountain?
Mont Blanc
Kilimanjaro
K2
Mount Everest
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Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon in July 1969. Which mission took him there?
Gemini 4
Apollo 8
Apollo 13
Apollo 11
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Christopher Columbus's first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492 was paid for by the monarchs of which country?
Portugal
Spain
France
England
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Which explorer led the first expedition to reach the South Pole, in December 1911?
Fridtjof Nansen
Roald Amundsen
Ernest Shackleton
Robert Falcon Scott
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Magellan was killed during his voyage. Who captained the ship Victoria home to complete the first circumnavigation of the world?
Juan Sebastián Elcano
Francis Drake
Vasco da Gama
Amerigo Vespucci
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Marco Polo, a merchant from Venice, spent many years at the court of which Mongol ruler of China?
Ögedei Khan
Genghis Khan
Kublai Khan
Timur
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In which sea did Shackleton's ship Endurance become trapped and crushed by pack ice in 1915?
The Weddell Sea
The Bering Sea
The Ross Sea
The Barents Sea
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Which US president sent Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to explore the American West in 1804?
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
James Madison
John Adams
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Ibn Battuta, who travelled across Africa and Asia in the 14th century, was born in which city?
Tangier
Baghdad
Cairo
Damascus
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On his first voyage aboard HMS Endeavour, why did Captain James Cook sail to Tahiti in 1769?
To watch the return of Halley's Comet
To observe a total solar eclipse
To record a great meteor shower
To observe the transit of Venus
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