Statistics for European Explorers and Conquerors

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First man to circumnavigate the entire globe	Ferdinand Magellan	74%
Mapped the majority of the unseen coastlines and islands in the Pacific	James Cook	70%
Widely celebrated for the discovery of the Americas	Christopher Columbus	67%
Conqueror of the Aztec Empire	Hernan Cortes	64%
Conqueror of the Inca Empire	Francisco Pizarro	58%
First to mention that the Americas were two entirely separate Continents	Amerigo Vespucci	53%
Discovered a sea route to India	Vasco da Gama	49%
Infamous for starting piracy	Francis Drake	48%
Discovered the east coast of the United States and searched for the Northwest Passage	Henry Hudson	42%
Discredited for the discovery of the Americas	Leif Erikson	40%
First to set sight on New Zealand and Van Diemen's Island	Abel Tasman	35%
Man explored Florida	Ponce de Leon	35%
First man to travel inland of North America	Jacques Cartier	26%
First man to sail around the Cape of Good Hope	Bartolomeu Dias	22%
Discoverer of Brazil	Pedro Alvares Cabral	6%
Explorer of New France and established Quebec City	Samuel de Champlain	6%
Conqueror of the Mayan Empire	Pedro de Alvarado	4%
Mapped the eastern coast of the United States from New Brunswick to Florida	Giovanni da Verrazzano	0%