Explorers and Voyages

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1. Which navigator led the 1492 Spanish-sponsored voyage that reached islands in the Caribbean?

   • John Cabot
   • Vasco da Gama
   • Ferdinand Magellan
   • Christopher Columbus

2. Vasco da Gama’s fleet reached Calicut in 1498 after sailing around which cape?

   • Cape Horn
   • Cape of Good Hope
   • Cape Cod
   • Cape Comorin

3. Which expedition achieved the first recorded circumnavigation of Earth?

   • The Magellan–Elcano expedition
   • The Lewis and Clark expedition
   • Cook’s first Pacific voyage
   • The voyage of the Mayflower

4. The medieval book commonly called The Travels describes journeys attributed to which Venetian merchant?

   • Amerigo Vespucci
   • Zheng He
   • Marco Polo
   • Ibn Khaldun

5. Which Moroccan traveler dictated the Rihla after journeys across Africa, Asia, and parts of Europe?

   • Al-Idrisi
   • Ibn Battuta
   • Xuanzang
   • Ahmad ibn Fadlan

6. Whose Norwegian expedition first verifiably reached the geographic South Pole in December 1911?

   • Robert Falcon Scott
   • Ernest Shackleton
   • Fridtjof Nansen
   • Roald Amundsen

7. Observations from which ship’s voyage helped Charles Darwin develop his later explanation of evolution?

   • HMS Beagle
   • HMS Challenger
   • Endeavour
   • Santa María

8. The seven major treasure voyages commanded by Zheng He sailed under which Chinese dynasty?

   • Han
   • Song
   • Ming
   • Qing

9. Charles Lindbergh’s 1927 flight in the Spirit of St. Louis was the first solo nonstop flight between which cities?

   • London and New York
   • New York and Paris
   • Boston and Madrid
   • Chicago and Rome

10. What milestone did Yuri Gagarin achieve aboard Vostok 1 in 1961?

    • First walk on the Moon
    • First spacewalk
    • First docking in orbit
    • First human orbital spaceflight