About Famous Explorers Quiz #846
Famous Explorers Quiz #846 was the quiz for Monday, October 26, 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 #846
- Which explorer founded Quebec City and mapped much of the Great Lakes region?
- Which strait separates Asia from North America?
- Which Dutch explorer was the first European to reach Tasmania and New Zealand, in 1642?
- What were the names of John Franklin's two lost ships?
- Who was the first to sail through the entire Northwest Passage, from 1903 to 1906?
- Which Spanish naval officer mapped the Strait of Georgia in 1792 and gave his name to one of the Gulf Islands?
- Which explorer from Quebec led Canadian government voyages to the Arctic islands in the early 1900s?
- Which Canadian-trained scientist began studying orangutans in Borneo in 1971?
- Which mapmaker surveyed about 3.9 million square kilometres of western North America?
- Which two pilots made the first nonstop balloon flight around the world, in 1999?
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