Multiple choice general knowledge history

As we have already seen, exploration can be a dangerous business. Which of these explorers did NOT die during his voyages?

  1. Henry Hudson

  2. Thomas Cavendish

  3. Captain James Cook

  4. Sir Walter Raleigh
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Explanation

Henry Hudson was set adrift by mutineers in Hudson Bay in 1611. Thomas Cavendish died at sea during his circumnavigation attempt. Captain James Cook was killed in Hawaii in 1779. Sir Walter Raleigh, however, was executed in England in 1618 for unrelated political offenses - he did not die during his voyages to the Americas.

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