Explorers Identification Quiz

Who was a Chinese admiral during the Ming Dynasty that led great voyages that spread China's fame throughout Asia?

• Zheng He
• Christopher Columbus

• Mao Zedong

• Li Zicheng

Who was a Portuguese Prince that gave steadfast financial and moral support to Portuguese navigators?

• Prince John of Portugal
• Prince Ferdinand the Bold
• Prince Louis of France
• Prince Henry the Navigator

Who was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southern tip of Africa in 1487?

• Bartolomeu Dias
• Vasco da Gama
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Christopher Columbus

Who was the Portuguese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean?

• Vasco da Gama
• Henry the Navigator
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan

Who was the Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China?

• Ferdinand Magellan
• Vasco da Gama
• Christopher Columbus
• Hernán Cortés

Who was the Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico?

• Diego Velázquez
• Juan de Salazar
• Francisco Pizarro
• Hernán Cortés

Who was the Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima?

• Francisco Pizarro
• Hernán Cortés
• Diego de Almagro
• Juan Ponce de León

Who was the Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world?

• Vasco da Gama
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Hernán Cortés

Who was the English explorer and admiral who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and who helped to defeat the Spanish Armada?

• James Cook
• Henry Hudson
• Walter Raleigh
• Francis Drake

Who was the English explorer who claimed Newfoundland for England while looking for Northwest Passage?

• John Cabot
• Francis Drake
• James Cook
• Henry Hudson