About Famous Explorers Quiz #838
Famous Explorers Quiz #838 was the quiz for Sunday, October 18, 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 #838
- Which Italian explorer sailing for Spain reached the Caribbean in 1492?
- What did Europeans in the 1500s call the Americas?
- Which islands, now part of Indonesia, were the famous source of cloves and nutmeg?
- Which Polynesian people were the first to settle New Zealand?
- Which African American explorer accompanied Robert Peary on his 1909 expedition toward the North Pole?
- Which explorer crossed Australia from south to north with Robert Burke in 1861?
- Which British explorer identified Lake Victoria as the main source of the Nile in 1858?
- Which RCMP ship was the first to sail the Northwest Passage from west to east?
- Which German scientist explored South America from 1799 to 1804 and has an ocean current named after him?
- Which explorer from Quebec led Canadian government voyages to the Arctic islands in the early 1900s?
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