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Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Who was Marco Polo?

a)

Marco Polo was a Merchant

b)

Marco Polo was a writer

c)

Marco Polo was a explorer

2.

Exploration of North America is thought to have started with the Vikings.

a)

True

b)

False

3.

What Genoese explorer sailed off Spain on 3 August 1492 across the Atlantic Ocean and discovered America?

a)

Vasco da Gama

b)

Amerigo Vespucci

c)

Christopher Columbus

4.

This British captain explored the Pacific Ocean and was the first to reach New Zealand, Australia and Hawaii.

a)

James Cook

b)

Mulford B. Foster

c)

Henry Hudson

5.

This Venetian explorer, who lived in the 13th-14th century, travelled across Asia and wrote an account of his travels known as 'Il Milione'.

a)

Marco Polo

b)

Juan Ponce de Leon

c)

Pedro Alvares Cabral

d)

Bartolomeu Dias

6.

What is the name of the first astronaut to walk on the surface of the moon?

a)

Michael Collins

b)

Neil Armstrong

c)

Yuri Gagarin

d)

Buzz Aldrin

7.

What Scottish missionary and explorer of central Africa was the first European to see the Victoria Falls and name them in honour of Queen Victoria?

a)

John Rae

b)

David Livingstone

c)

Henry Morton Stanley

d)

Richard Francis Burton

8.

What Portuguese explorer was the first to reach the Cape of Good Hope by sailing from Portugal?

a)

Hernando de Soto

b)

Bartolomeu Dias

c)

Giovanni da Verrazzano

d)

Vasco da Gama

9.

Who was the first English explorer to sail around the world and return alive in England in 1580?

a)

James Cook

b)

Francis Drake

c)

Henry Hudson

d)

John Cabot

10.

What is the name of the Spanish explorer who conquered the Inca Empire?

a)

Vasco da Gama

b)

Amerigo Vespucci

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Francisco Pizarro

11.

This Portuguese explorer became the first European to successfully reach India from Europe around the Cape of Good Hope.

a)

Vasco da Gama

b)

Bartolomeu Dias

c)

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

d)

Christopher Columbus