Statistics for History of Firsts #3 - European Exploration

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First person to..	Answer	% Correct
Reach India via Africa (1498)	Vasco de Gama	92%
discover the Caribbean (1492)	Christopher Columbus	88%
Circumnavigate the globe (1520)	Ferdinand Magellan	88%
discover New Zealand (1642)	Abel Tasman	84%
reach the South Pole (1911)	Roald Amundsen	72%
round the Cape of Good Hope (1488)	Bartolomeu Dias	16%
discover Brazil (1500)	Pedro Alvares Cabral	12%
discover Antartica (1820)	Fabian Gottlieb von Bellinghausen	8%
discover Australia (1606)	Willem Janzoon	8%
discover the Azores (1427)	Diogo de Silves	4%
Discover Papua New Guinea (1526)	Don Jorge de Meneses	4%
walk the length of the Amazon (2010)	Edward Stafford	4%
discover Samoa (1722)	Jacob Roggeveen	4%