Explorers, Inventors and Discoverers

Question 1

Venetian Who Explored Asia

Answer 1

Marco Polo

Question 2

Norse Explorer who First Reached Greenland

Answer 2

Eric the Red

Question 3

North Explorer who Northeast North American

Answer 3

Leif Erickson (Eric the Red’s son)

Question 4

Flemish Cartographer

Answer 4

Geradus Mercator

Question 5

Portugese Navigation Instructor

Answer 5

Henry the Navigator

Question 6

First To Go Around the Cape of Good Hope

Answer 6

Bartolomeu Dias

Question 7

Discoverer of the New World

Answer 7

Christopher Columbus

Question 8

Italian map maker, coined the term “new world”

Answer 8

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 9

Portugeses Explorer and First to Reach India

Answer 9

Vasco Da Gama

Question 10

First to see the Pacific Ocean

Answer 10

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Question 11

Aztec COnquerer

Answer 11

Hernando Cortez

Question 12

Incan Conqueror and Explorer of Peru

Answer 12

Francisco Pizarro

Question 13

Explorer of American Southwest, Search for 7 cities of gold

Answer 13

Francisco de Coronado

Question 14

First to Set foot on US Mainland (Florida)

Answer 14

Ponce De Leon

Question 15

Italian Explorer who discovered Newfoundland

Answer 15

John Cabot

Question 16

John Cabot’s Son who explored the Rio De la Plata

Answer 16

Sebastian Cabot

Question 17

Frenchman who founded Montreal

Answer 17

Jacques Cartier

Question 18

Portuguese Discoverer of Brazil

Answer 18

Pedro Cabral

Question 19

Portuguese Discoverer of California

Answer 19

Juan Cabrillo

Question 20

Frenchman Who Explored the Southern Mississippi River

Answer 20

Sieur De La Salle

Question 21

Frenchman who Explored the Length of the Mississippi

Answer 21

Marquette & Joliet

Question 22

First To Sale into NY Harbor

Answer 22

Giovanni De Varrazano

Question 23

Spaniard Who Discovered the Mississippi

Answer 23

Hernando De Soto

Question 24

The Father of New France, Founded Quebec

Answer 24

Samuel De Champlain

Question 25

German naturalist who explored the orinoco

Answer 25

Friedrich Humboldt

Question 26

Explorer of the Gambia and Niger Rivers

Answer 26

Mungo Park

Question 27

His Ship was the first to Sail Around the World

Answer 27

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 28

First Englishman to Sail Around the World

Answer 28

Sir. Francis Drake

Question 29

Dutchman who explored the pacific

Answer 29

Abel Tasman

Question 30

Norwegian Who First Navigated Northwest Passage

Answer 30

Roald Amundsen

Question 31

ENglishman who Discovered Australia and Hawaii

Answer 31

James Cook

Question 32

First Englishman to Reach Australia

Answer 32

William Dampier

Question 33

Danish Discoverer of Alaska and Namesake Strait

Answer 33

Vitus Bering

Question 34

Explorer of Northwest Canada

Answer 34

Alexander Mackenzie

Question 35

Discovered the Great Salt Lake

Answer 35

Jim Bridger

Question 36

Englishman who Discovered the World's 5th Largest Island

Answer 36

William Baffin

Question 37

Englishman who Discovered the Source of the Nile (DIsputed)

Answer 37

John Speke

Question 38

Speke's Colleague, Who Spoke 29 Languages

Answer 38

Sir. Richard Burton

Question 39

First to Reach North Pole, 1909

Answer 39

Robert Peary & Matthew Henson

Question 40

First to Reach South Pole, 1911

Answer 40

Roald Amundsen

Question 41

Competitor of Amundsen, Died after reaching South Pole

Answer 41

Robert Scott

Question 42

First to Fly over South Pole

Answer 42

RIchard Byrd

Question 43

British Explorer of the Antarctic

Answer 43

James Ross

Question 44

Scottish Medical Missionary to Africa

Answer 44

David Livingstone

Question 45

Man Who Found Livingstone

Answer 45

Henry Stanley

Question 46

Explored Northern Louisiana Purchase Territory

Answer 46

Lewis and Clark

Question 47

Explored Southern Louisiana Purchase Territory

Answer 47

Zebulon Pike

Question 48

Machu Picchu Discoverer

Answer 48

Hiram Bigham