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| Question | % correct |
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Which explorer's 1492 voyage first brought Europeans to the Americas? | 100% |
Which Norwegian explorer led the first expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911? | 100% |
Aboard which ship did Charles Darwin make the voyage that shaped his theory of evolution? | 100% |
Which 1969 mission first landed humans on the Moon? | 100% |
Which two climbers led the first expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953? | 50% |
Which famous ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage in 1912? | 100% |
Which expedition completed the first circumnavigation of the globe between 1519 and 1522? | 100% |
Which American expedition explored the newly acquired West and reached the Pacific in 1805? | 100% |
Which aviator made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic in 1927? | 50% |
Which pioneering aviator vanished over the Pacific in 1937 while attempting to fly around the world? | 50% |
Which ship was crushed by pack ice during Ernest Shackleton's 1914–17 Antarctic expedition? | 50% |
Which 1947 balsa-wood raft expedition crossed the Pacific to test theories of ancient migration? | 100% |
Which doomed British expedition reached the South Pole in 1912 only to perish on the return journey? | 50% |
Which astronaut was the first human to step onto the Moon during Apollo 11? | 50% |
In which island group was Ferdinand Magellan killed partway through his circumnavigation? | 50% |
Which Shoshone woman guided and interpreted for the Lewis and Clark Expedition? | 100% |
Which Soviet cosmonaut became the first woman in space in 1963? | 100% |
Which explorer claimed in 1909 to be the first to reach the geographic North Pole? | 50% |
Besides the South Pole, Roald Amundsen also led the first expedition to navigate which long-sought sea route? | 50% |
The first powered, controlled airplane flight in 1903 was achieved by which pair of brothers? | 100% |
Which 1845 British expedition vanished entirely while searching for the Northwest Passage? | 100% |
The 1872–76 voyage of HMS Challenger laid the foundations of which science? | 100% |
Which two British aviators made the first nonstop transatlantic flight in 1919, eight years before Lindbergh? | 50% |
Which Norwegian explorer's ship, the Fram, was deliberately frozen into the Arctic ice to drift toward the Pole? | 50% |
Which expedition achieved the first overland crossing of the Antarctic continent in 1958? | 100% |
Which submarine made the first submerged transit beneath the North Pole in 1958? | 50% |
Which spacecraft, launched in 1977, became the first human-made object to enter interstellar space? | 50% |
Which Norwegian led the Kon-Tiki expedition to prove ancient peoples could have crossed the Pacific? | 50% |
What was the name of Apollo 11's lunar module that touched down in the Sea of Tranquility? | 100% |
Which 1953 expedition vessel and route did Hillary and Tenzing's summit team approach Everest from? | 100% |
Who was the first human to travel into outer space? | 100% |
Which Portuguese explorer led the first European expedition to sail directly to India? | 100% |
What was the name of the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957? | 100% |
The disastrous 1937 explosion of which German airship marked the end of the passenger zeppelin era? | 50% |
Which Venetian merchant's 13th-century travels to China were documented in a famous book? | 50% |
What was the name of Charles Lindbergh's plane for his solo transatlantic flight? | 100% |
Which U.S. space mission famously experienced an in-flight emergency but returned the crew safely to Earth? | 100% |
Captain James Cook is most famous for his extensive exploration of which ocean? | 100% |
Which U.S. Air Force pilot became the first person to officially break the sound barrier in 1947? | 100% |
In 1986, which U.S. Space Shuttle broke apart shortly after liftoff, resulting in the loss of its crew? | 50% |
Which English sea captain led the second expedition to circumnavigate the globe aboard his ship, the Golden Hind? | 100% |
Who was the first American to travel into space? | 50% |
The 1960 dive of the bathyscaphe Trieste was the first crewed expedition to reach what location, the deepest known point on Earth? | 100% |
The mutiny on HMS Bounty in 1789 occurred during a mission to transport what type of plant? | 50% |
Which Scottish missionary and explorer famously disappeared in Central Africa, leading to a search by Henry Morton Stanley? | 100% |
The Wright brothers' first successful powered flight took place near which North Carolina town? | 100% |
Amelia Earhart was the first woman to achieve what major aviation feat solo in 1932? | 100% |
Which Chinese mariner led seven major "treasure voyages" through the Indian Ocean in the early 15th century? | 100% |
Which Soviet dog was the first animal to orbit the Earth aboard Sputnik 2 in 1957? | 50% |
The first successful landing of an uncrewed probe on Mars was achieved in 1976 by which NASA mission? | 100% |
Who was the Command Module Pilot on Apollo 11, orbiting the Moon alone while Armstrong and Aldrin walked on the surface? | 50% |
Sir Ranulph Fiennes led the Transglobe Expedition, which in 1982 became the first to achieve what? | 50% |
Captain Cook's first voyage to the Pacific was primarily for what scientific purpose? | 100% |
In 1898, who became the first person to sail single-handedly around the world? | 100% |
The first probe to successfully land on Venus and transmit data from its surface was which Soviet mission in 1970? | 100% |
Jacques Piccard and Don Walsh descended to the Challenger Deep in 1960 aboard which bathyscaphe? | 100% |
What was the name of the first NASA Mars rover, which landed as part of the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997? | 50% |
In 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones completed the first non-stop circumnavigation of the Earth in what type of vehicle? | 100% |
The ill-fated Franklin Expedition consisted of two ships, HMS Erebus and which other vessel? | 100% |
Who was the second person to step on the Moon, following Neil Armstrong out of the lunar module? | 50% |
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