About Famous Explorers Quiz #836
Famous Explorers Quiz #836 was the quiz for Friday, October 16, 2026: 10 questions: 2 easy, 3 medium and 5 hard. Everyone who played Famous Explorers Quiz that day got the same quiz, and it stays here to play for 60 days.
The questions of Famous Explorers Quiz #836
- Which explorer founded Quebec City and mapped much of the Great Lakes region?
- Which British captain charted the east coast of Australia in 1770?
- What were spices like pepper, cloves and nutmeg a major reason for?
- Which Moroccan scholar travelled about 120,000 km across Africa and Asia in the 1300s?
- What was the name of Columbus's largest ship in 1492?
- Who was the first known navigator to sail all the way around Australia, in 1802 to 1803?
- Which Nova Scotia-born sailor was the first person to sail alone around the world, from 1895 to 1898?
- Which Arab geographer made a famous world map for the King of Sicily in 1154?
- In which year was the wreck of Shackleton's Endurance found on the seabed?
- Which Norwegian explorer drifted across the Arctic Ocean in the ship Fram in the 1890s?
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