About Famous Explorers Quiz #848
Famous Explorers Quiz #848 was the quiz for Wednesday, October 28, 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 #848
- Which French ocean explorer helped invent the Aqua-Lung for scuba diving?
- In which ocean did the Kon-Tiki raft sail?
- Which African American explorer accompanied Robert Peary on his 1909 expedition toward the North Pole?
- Why is a ship's speed measured in knots?
- Which long river, Canada's longest, is named after Alexander Mackenzie?
- Which English navigator of the 1580s gave his name to the strait between Greenland and Baffin Island?
- Which Nova Scotia-born sailor was the first person to sail alone around the world, from 1895 to 1898?
- Which Carthaginian navigator sailed down the west coast of Africa around 500 BC?
- Which British naval officer wintered his ships at Melville Island in the Arctic in 1819 to 1820?
- Which Greenlandic explorer led the Fifth Thule Expedition across Arctic North America in the 1920s?
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