Statistics for Famous sailors (real ones)

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The first circumnavigator of the world. Portuguese. Cape Horn.	Ferdinand Magellan	70%
Famous for the Battle of Trafalgar during Napoleonic Wars. 1st Viscount.	Horatio Nelson	63%
Circumnavigated the globe twice. A hero to the English; a pirate to the Spanish.	Sir Francis Drake	60%
Famous for charting and visiting the Pacific especially Hawaii, where he died.	James Cook	43%
Introduced tobacco and other items from the U.S. colonies. Favorite of Queen Elizabeth.	Sir Walter Raleigh	23%
Famous as a pirate around the Caribbean. Known as Blackbeard.	Edward Teach	20%
10th Century Icelandic sailor who may have also discovered North America.	Leif Ericson	20%
Captain of the Titanic when it sank in 1912 on its maiden voyage.	Edward Smith	13%
Norwegian adventurer who recreated voyages on ships made of balsa or papyrus.	Thor Heyerdahl	13%
First single-handed circumnavigation of the world.	Sir Alec Rose	3%
14th Century Chinese explorer who may have even discovered America during his travels.	Zheng He	3%