101 Explorer Trivia Questions That are Pure Gold

1. Which famous waterfalls did David Livingstone discover in 1855?

2. Who was the first black woman in space?

3. Who led the team that discovered Tutankhamen's tomb?

4. Who discovered the sea route to India in 1497?

5. Who discovered Tutankhamen's tomb?

6. What South American country is named after a famous explorer?

1. Who is credited with bringing tobacco to England?

2. What was the common nationality of the explorers Vasco da Gama, Bartholomew Diaz and Ferdinand Magellan?

3. Who was Christopher Columbus?

4. Hiram Bingham rediscovered which archeological site in 1911?

5. What did Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon discover in 1922?

6. On which date of 1969 did Neil Armstrong walk on the moon?

1. Who was Marco Polo?

2. Where did the first fleet of British ships land in 1788?

3. The first German immigrants to Australia settled where?

4. Edmund Hillary was the first man to conquer which mountain?

5. What was the middle name of the explorer Captain Scott?

6. Which explorers expedition was the first to circumnavigate the earth?

1. In what year was the wreck of the Titanic discovered?

2. What did the early explorers originally call America?

3. Who discovered the 'New World' of the Americas?

4. Who settled Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607?

5. Who was the second person to walk on the moon?

6. Who was the first person to reach the North Pole?

1. Who sailed in the 'Santa Maria'?

2. Who was Captain James Cook?

3. Who said 'Dr Livingstone I Presume'?

4. Why did Columbus call the Arawaks Indians?

5. What nationality was the great explorer Vasco Da Gama?

6. Who was Sir Richard Burton?

1. Tutankhamen's tomb was discovered in which decade?

2. Jacques Cartier claimed which part of Canada for France?

3. Who was the first to call America a 'New World'?

4. In which century did Christopher Columbus discover America?

5. Who was the explorer who died in Panama in 1596?

6. Which was the first continent to be discovered that had no native population?

1. Which year did the Americans launched their first satellite Explorer 1?

2. Which of these happened first?

3. Man finally landed on the moon in which year?

4. Which explorer first entered San Francisco Bay in 1579?

5. In which century was explorer Marco Polo born?

6. Which explorer's expedition was the first to circumnavigate the earth?

1. Where did the marauding Vikings come from?

2. What did the Europeans want from Asia?

3. How did Europeans learn about Asia?

4. Who discovered the sea route to India?

5. Which explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe?

6. Cpt James Bligh captained which famous ship?

1. What name is given to the 11 ships that sailed from Great Britain on 13 May 1787?

2. In what year did Roald Amundsen reach the South Pole?

3. In what year did Christopher Columbus discover America?

4. Which English explorer credited with 'the establishment of the first English settlement in North America was born on New Year's Day 1580?

5. Who is credited with discovering America?

6. Who was the first woman in outer space?

1. Who was Leif Ericson?

2. Who first sailed around the Cape of Good Hope?

3. What led to the growth of California in 1848?

4. Which Dutch navigator led the first European expedition to sight the Fiji island group?

5. Who was Vasco da Gama?

6. Why was Easter Island named Easter island?

1. Who was the first to explore Germany?

2. Meriwether Lewis was an American what?

3. Which explorer died en route to Tahiti?

4. In which century did James Cook discover the Hawaiian islands?

5. Marco Polo was an explorer from which country?

6. Which British captain and explorer proved that New Zealand was not a part of a continent?

1. Which 'Apollo' mission landed the first humans on the Moon?

2. The tomb of which boy king was first discovered in 1922?

3. What was the name of a famous Norse explorer in the 10th Century?

4. What was the name of the ship that James Cook used on his first voyage of discovery to Australia and New Zealand?

5. What was the name of the ship on which the Pilgrims came to America?

6. Who was the first man to circumnavigate Australia?

1. Where did explorers first arrive in Canada?

2. Who was John Cabot?

3. What did Captain Cook discover in 1778?

4. Which of the following four ships was launched the earliest?

5. Who claimed the East Coast of Australia as British in 1770?

6. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first men to climb which mountain?

1. Who was the first man to conquer Mount Everest?

2. Who discovered Canada?

3. Walter Raleigh named which US state after Elizabeth I?

4. Which famous explorer's ship was called The Discovery?

5. Which explorer first claimed Canada for France?

6. Who carried out the second circumnavigation of the world?

1. Who was Richard E. Byrd?

2. Which explorer gave the name Canada?

3. Who was Roald Amundsen?

4. Who arrived in Massachusetts from England in 1620?

5. Where did the British establish an outpost in 1803?

6. Who discovered the Lost City of Machu Picchu in 1912?

1. In 1963, who became the first woman to fly in space?

2. Who conquered the Greeks around 2,100 years ago?

3. Which famous ship was sunk in 1545?

4. In what capacity was Vasco Nunez de Balboa famous in history?

5. Who discovered Greenland?

6. Who was king when Columbus discovered America?

1. Jacques Cartier discovered which country?

2. Who was Ferdinand Magellan?

3. Who was David Livingstone?

4. What name was given to the islands we now know as Hawaii when they were first discovered by Europeans?

5. T. E. Lawrence became famous as Lawrence of …?