Statistics for Famous Explorers

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Hint	Nationality	Answer	% Correct
Credited with discovering America	Italian	Christopher Columbus	97%
First to explore the moon	American	Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin	83%
Discovered the New World; Greenland	Norse	Erik the Red	76%
Explored much of Asia and China	Italian	Marco Polo	75%
First to circumnavigate the globe	Portuguese	Ferdinand Magellan	73%
Explorer of Mexico; conquered the Aztecs	Spanish	Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro	71%
Found a sea route from Europe to India	Spanish	Vasco da Gama	68%
Known for his underwater explorations	French	Jacques Cousteau	62%
Sent to explore the Louisiana Purchase	American	Meriwether Lewis & William Clark	62%
Explorer and first atop Mt. Everest	British/Sherpa	Sir Edmund Hillary; Tenzing Norgay	60%
First man in space	Russian	Yuri Gagarin	59%
Explored S. America; conquered the Incas	Spanish	Francisco Pizarro	51%
Explored the NW Passage; Hudson Bay	English	Henry Hudson	51%
Viking explorer of Newfoundland	Norse	Leif Eriksson	51%
Missionary who explored east/south Africa	English	David Livingstone	50%
1st to the South & North Poles, NW Passage	Norwegian	Roald Amundsen	50%
English explorer of the U.S. coastline	English	Sir Francis Drake	35%
Sought the fountain of youth in Florida	Spanish	Juan Ponce de León	34%
"Discovered" the Pacific Ocean in Panama	Portuguese	Vasco Núñez de Balboa	24%
1st European to cross the Mississippi	Spanish	Hernando DeSoto	21%
Found and explored the wreck of Titanic	American	Robert Ballard	8%
French explorers of the Mississippi River	French, Canadian	Jacques Marquette; Louis Joliet	4%
European discoverer of Niagara Falls	French	Louis Hennepin	1%