About Famous Explorers Quiz #847
Famous Explorers Quiz #847 was the quiz for Tuesday, October 27, 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 #847
- Which two US Army officers led an expedition to the Pacific from 1804 to 1806?
- Which explorer led the first expedition to sail around the world, though he died on the way?
- Which explorer first sailed from Europe to India around Africa, arriving in 1498?
- What are the highest mountains on each of the seven continents together called?
- Why is a ship's speed measured in knots?
- Which naturalist sailed with James Cook on the Endeavour and collected thousands of plants?
- Which Spanish explorer was the first European to see the Pacific from the Americas, in 1513?
- Before his Pacific voyages, which Canadian coastline did James Cook carefully chart?
- Which people, ancestors of today's Inuit, spread across Arctic Canada from Alaska about 1000 years ago?
- Which young French interpreter was probably the first European to see the Great Lakes?
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