About Famous Explorers Quiz #839
Famous Explorers Quiz #839 was the quiz for Monday, October 19, 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 #839
- Which explorer sailing for England reached Newfoundland or Cape Breton in 1497?
- Which French explorer sailed up the St. Lawrence River and heard the word "kanata"?
- Which disease caused by a lack of vitamin C troubled sailors on long voyages?
- What was a "voyageur" in the Canadian fur trade?
- Which Danish explorer in Russian service gave his name to the strait between Asia and North America?
- Which Dene woman helped make peace between the Dene and the Cree for the Hudson's Bay Company around 1715?
- Which mapmaker surveyed about 3.9 million square kilometres of western North America?
- Which Spanish naval officer mapped the Strait of Georgia in 1792 and gave his name to one of the Gulf Islands?
- Which HBC explorer, guided by Matonabbee, reached the Arctic Ocean overland in 1771?
- Which Spanish explorer named Florida in 1513?
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