Quiz: Adventurers and Explorers | Love Our Adventures

Famous as the European 'discoverer' of the Americas, Christopher Columbus is celebrated in many countries around the continents of North and South America. While he may not have been the first-ever European to cross the Atlantic, he also didn't strictly land on the Americas. Where did Christopher Columbus most likely first land?

The Bahamas

Canary Islands

Bermuda

Lesser Antilles

Amerigo Vespucci, whose name would eventually go on to name the Americas, was a merchant and explorer who made several trips to the new world. What was Amerigo Vespucci's main legacy?

Discovered South America

Convinced Europe that the 'new world' was new and not a part of Asia

Founded settlements in the Americas

Made first landfall on North America

Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese explorer, achieved a first in 1488 that would forever help connect Europe to Asia - but what was that first?

First to cross the Gobi desert

First to sail across the Black Sea

First to cross the Arabian desert

First to sail around the southern tip of Africa

Vikings were successful explorers in their time, with settlements established all around Europe via the North Sea and the Mediterranean. Around the year 1000 the Vikings, likely led by Leif Erikson, founded a settlement in a surprising place - where was it?

Newfoundland (Canada)

Tenerife

Cuba

Rhode Island (USA)

In 1519, a fleet of 5 ships captained by Ferdinand Magellan set sail from Spain; one ship, the Victoria, would return in 1522, captained by Juan Sebastián Elcano. Despite the heavy losses, what did the voyage achieve?

First Spanish settlement in the new world

First circumnavigation of the Earth

Spanish conquest of the Philippines

Spanish colonisation in Africa

Initially settled around the 13th century by Polynesians, this remote country was one of the last locations to be settled by people. While a Dutch Explorer named Abel Tasman would 'discover' it (from a European perspective) in the 17th century and James Cook would map its coastline in the mid 18th century, it wouldn't be until the mid 19th century that this country became a colony of the British Empire. Which country am I?

New Zealand

Australia

Japan

New Guinea

Named by a European explorer as the 'Sandwich Islands', Hawaii was a land of chiefdoms, settled by a slow influx of boats from across the Pacific that would slowly grow into a kingdom, then a republic before annexation and eventually becoming a state. But which explorer arrived here in 1778 to officially put Hawaii on the maps?

Francis Drake

Walter Raleigh

Henry Hudson

James Cook

In the early 20th century, a race between two groups of explorers had begun: a race to the south pole. On one side, was Robert Falcon Scott and his team, who would lose the race by roughly 1 month before eventually losing his life too. But who won that race?

Frederick Cook

Roald Amundsen

Robert Peary

Valery Chkalov

Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay are a duo of adventurers who together completed a first on 29th May 1953. Which first was it?

First to go to space

First to summit Mount Everest

First to navigate the entire length of the Amazon River

First to swim across the Atlantic

Likewise, Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh are another duo to achieve a first, but their first was in a Submarine. They descended to Challenger Deep, the deepest point known in Earth's oceans. What year did they achieve this?

1960

1984

1998

2010

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