QUESTIONS
- Which European explorer discovered the Hawaiian islands?
- Who beat Captain Robert Scott in the 'race' to the South Pole in 1911-12?
- Mary Kingsley was one of the first women explorers. Where did she travel?
- Which French naval officer and underwater explorer invented the aqualung?
- What nationality was explorer Ferdinand Magellan?
- Against which disease did Edward Jenner discover a vaccine?
- Who introducted potatoes and tobacco to England after his voyage of exploration?
- What was given the name the 'New World'?
- When Abel Tasman discovered Tasmania, what did he call it?
- Which United States President became an explorer at age 53 to trace the course of the South American Duvido River, now named after him?
- Prince Henry of Portugal earned what nickname because he involved himself with so many voyages of exploration?
- In 1947, Norwegian anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl crossed the Pacific on a raft. What was it called?
- What name was given to the Spanish conquerors of large parts of south and central America in the 16th century?
- Which explorer travelled in a ship called the Santa Maria?
- David Livingstone disappeared while exploring Africa in the 1860s and Henry Stanley led an expedition to find him. What was Stanley's profession?
- What was crossed on foot for the first time in 1968-9?
- Who led the expedition that set sail in five ships; the Pelican, the Marigold, the Elizabeth, the Swan and the Christopher?
- In 1856 two Englishmen Richard Burton and John Speke, set out through the African continent to find the source of which river?
- Which part of the world was once known as the 'Dark Continent'?
- What action did Lawrence Oates take in 1912, believing that he was holding up the exploration team?
- Bartolomeu Dias called it the 'Cape of Storms'. What is it called now?
- What was the name of Yuri Gagarin's spaceship in 1961?
- In which land did Charles Doughty, T.E. Lawrence and Bertram Thomas travel and explore?
- What nationality was Abel Tasman?
- Terra Australia Incognita was the name given to the vast continent supposed, until the 18th century, to exist in the southern hemisphere. What does the name mean?
ANSWERS
- James Cook
- Roald Amundsen
- West Africa
- Jacques Cousteau
- Portugese
- Smallpox
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- The newly discovered American continent
- Van Diemen's Land
- Theodore Roosevelt
- Henry the Navigator
- Kon-Tiki
- Conquistadors
- Christopher Columbus
- Journalist
- North Pole
- Sir Francis Drake
- The Nile
- Africa
- Walked out into a blizzard and disappeared
- Cape of Good Hope
- Vostok I
- Arabia
- Dutch
- Unknown southern land