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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Country where the compass was invented.	China	77%
One of the first men to climb Everest.	Edmund Hillary \| Tenzing Norgay	77%
Fictional city covered in gold supposedly in South America.	El Dorado	75%
First European explorer to reach India via the Cape of Good Hope by ship.	Vasco da Gama	73%
Brightest star in the Little Dipper, giving the direction of north in the northern hemisphere.	Polaris	72%
Viking leader of an expedition that discovered North America around the year 1000.	Leif Erikson	61%
French sailor indissociable from his red bonnet, pioneer of the exploration of the sea bed.	Jacques-Yves Cousteau	40%
Ships invented in the 15th century by the Portuguese, symbols of the Age of Discovery.	Caravel	31%
A culinary speciality of Alsace and Germany, the consumption of which greatly reduces cases of scurvy among sailors.	Sauerkraut	27%
Language family containing both Hawaiian and Malagasy.	{Austronesian} languages	26%
An explorer born in present-day Morocco, his expeditions in the 14th century took him to China, Zanzibar and Indonesia.	Ibn Battuta	25%
Chinese admiral who led many explorations, which took him to the Red Sea, off Kenya and Indonesia.	Zheng He	21%
The secret city on the map.	Tbilisi	11%
Cape off Morocco, the supposed southern maritime frontier of the world in the Middle Ages.	Cape {Bojador}	8%