Statistics for Christopher Columbus Quiz

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  • The average score is 14 of 19

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QuestionAnswer% Correct
What kingdom paid for his voyages?
(Technically two kingdoms joined by marriage)
Spain
(Castile & Aragon)
96%
In what year did he start his first voyage?1492
92%
What modern-day country was Columbus born in?Italy
90%
Where did Columbus believe that he had landed?Asia
89%
What were the names of Columbus's three ships on his first voyage?Santa Maria
85%
What U.S. state's capital city is named Columbus?Ohio
80%
Who were the monarchs of those two kingdoms?Isabella
79%
Which modern-day country was the first one in the New World to be visited by
Europeans, more than 400 years before Columbus?
Canada
78%
What were the names of Columbus's three ships on his first voyage?Pinta
77%
What shape did people in Columbus's time believe the world to be?Spherical
75%
What were the names of Columbus's three ships on his first voyage?Niña
74%
What modern-day country was the first in the New World to be visited by Columbus?Bahamas
73%
What substance did Columbus brutally try to extract from the native populations
that he encountered?
Gold
71%
Who were the monarchs of those two kingdoms?Ferdinand
69%
What city was he born in?Genoa
68%
The Europeans introduced many diseases to the New World. What sexually-transmitted
disease is thought to be the only disease that traveled in the opposite direction?
Syphilis
66%
What island chain did Columbus stop over at on his way to the New World?Canary Islands
55%
What capital city was founded by Christopher's brother Bartholomew in 1496,
making it the oldest European settlement in the Americas?
Santo Domingo
41%
What is the term for the process in which people, ideas, technology, crops, and diseases
mixed between the Old World and New?
Columbian {Exchange}
34%

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