About Famous Explorers Quiz #837
Famous Explorers Quiz #837 was the quiz for Saturday, October 17, 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 #837
- Who flew the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic, in 1927?
- Who was the first person to reach the South Pole, in December 1911?
- Which British explorer reached the South Pole about five weeks after Amundsen?
- Who was the first woman to climb Mount Everest, in 1975?
- Which Norwegian explorer crossed the Pacific on the balsa raft Kon-Tiki in 1947?
- Which Flemish mapmaker created a famous world map projection in 1569?
- Which British woman explorer travelled through West Africa in the 1890s collecting fish and insects?
- Which naturalist sailed with James Cook on the Endeavour and collected thousands of plants?
- Which American pilot is credited with the first flight over the South Pole, in 1929?
- Which English courtier sponsored the Roanoke colony in the 1580s?
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