Statistics for Famous Polar Expeditions Quiz

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Description	Leader	% Correct
First expedition to reach the South Pole	Roald Amundsen	90%
Failed expedition to cross Antarctica where all explorers survived	Sir Ernest Shackleton	80%
Failed expedition to South Pole where all explorers died	Robert Falcon Scott (Terra Nova)	60%
Expedition where the Polar Plateau was discovered	Robert Falcon Scott (Discovery)	40%
(Supposed) first expedition to reach the North Pole	Robert Peary	40%
Failed expedition to reach the North Pole in the Fram	Fridtjof Nansen	10%
First expedition to cross the interior of Greenland on ice-skis	Fridtjof Nansen	10%
Expedition on the HMS Terror where McMurdo Sound was discovered and named	Archibald McMurdo	0%
The other supposed first expedition to reach the North Pole	Frederick Cook	0%
Failed expedition to reach the North Pole via the nonexistent Open Polar Sea in the Jeanette	George Washington De Long	0%