Tag: history

Questions Related to history

Who was the first to call America a "New World"?
general knowledge history

  1. Matthew Flinders

  2. James Cook

  3. Amerigo Vespucci

  4. Alexander Mackenzie

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Correct Option: C

This Yale professor discovered a city called Machu Picchu.
general knowledge history

  1. Amerigo Vespucci

  2. Henry Hudson

  3. Jacques Carter

  4. Hiram Bingham

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Correct Option: D

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

  1. Henry Hudson

  2. Thomas Cavendish

  3. Captain James Cook

  4. Sir Walter Raleigh

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Correct Option: D

This one about a non-human explorer. Which was the first man-made object to pass beyond the known limits of the solar system?
general knowledge history

  1. Venera 16

  2. Viking 1

  3. Pioneer 10

  4. Voyager 2

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Correct Option: C

Name the explorer who led the first expedition that successfully circumnavigated the globe.
general knowledge history

  1. Sebastian Cabot

  2. Henry Hudson

  3. Ferdinand Magellan

  4. Vasco de Gama

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Correct Option: C

Which explorer named the Pacific Ocean?
general knowledge history

  1. Ferdinand Magellan

  2. Hernando de Soto

  3. Francis Drake

  4. Juan Ponce de Leon

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Correct Option: A

Who opened a sea route to the East Indies for Portugal?
general knowledge history

  1. Martin Frobisher

  2. Marco Polo

  3. Vasco de Gama

  4. Bartolomeu Dias

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Correct Option: D

Who was the first European to lead an expedition that arrived at India via the rounding of the Cabo de Boa Esperanca (Cape of Good Hope)in 1497?
general knowledge history

  1. Vasco da Gama

  2. Vasco Nunez de Balboa

  3. Bartolomeu Dias

  4. Diogo de Sevilha

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Correct Option: A

On which plane did great aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan disappear while attempting the first equatorial round-the-world flight?
general knowledge history

  1. Kinner Airstar

  2. Lockheed Electra

  3. Avro Avian

  4. Lockheed Vega

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Correct Option: B

What two explorers are credited with the first visit of the North Pole?
general knowledge history

  1. Meriwether Lewis and William Clark

  2. David Livingstone and Henry Stanley

  3. Robert E. Peary and Matthew A. Henson

  4. Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke

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Correct Option: C