About Famous Explorers Quiz #840
Famous Explorers Quiz #840 was the quiz for Tuesday, October 20, 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 #840
- Which explorer's ship Endurance was crushed by Antarctic ice in 1915?
- Which Venetian merchant travelled to China and served Kublai Khan in the 1200s?
- Which ocean explorer found the wreck of the Titanic in 1985?
- Which explorer was the first European to cross North America north of Mexico by land, reaching the Pacific in 1793?
- What did sailors call the narrow strip of calm winds near the equator where ships could get stuck?
- Which Portuguese explorer reached Brazil in 1500?
- Who completed Magellan's round-the-world voyage in 1522?
- What is the name of the traditional double-hulled canoe that sailed from Hawaii to Tahiti in 1976 without instruments?
- Who made the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic, in 1919, from Newfoundland to Ireland?
- Which two explorers paddled down the Mississippi River in 1673?
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