About Famous Explorers Quiz #844
Famous Explorers Quiz #844 was the quiz for Saturday, October 24, 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 #844
- Who was the first person to orbit Earth, in 1961?
- Which British naval captain mapped the Pacific coast of BC in the 1790s?
- Which two men first reached the deepest point of the ocean in 1960?
- Which American journalist travelled around the world in 72 days in 1889 and 1890?
- What did Leif Erikson call the land he found in North America?
- Which Dene leader guided Samuel Hearne to the Arctic coast?
- Which French explorer and his sons pushed west from the Great Lakes to the Prairies in the 1730s?
- Which Norwegian explorer made the first crossing of Greenland's ice cap, on skis in 1888?
- Which Norwegian explorer mapped many Arctic islands west of Ellesmere Island from 1898 to 1902?
- Which naturalist came up with a theory of evolution by natural selection at the same time as Darwin?
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