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Columbus quiz

Christopher Columbus is well known as the man who crossed the Atlantic to discover the Americas. Below are a number of questions about his life.
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Last updated: March 26, 2022
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First submittedJuly 3, 2014
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The city where Columbus was (probably) born
Genoa
The Spanish version of his name (family name suffices)
Cristóbal Colón
The king and queen of Spain in whose service he sailed
Ferdinand II of Aragon
Isabella of Castile
The year he left on his first voyage
1492
The port from which he left
Palos
The ships he sailed with
Santa María
Pinta
Niña
The name of the brothers who sailed the two smaller ships
Martín Alonso and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón
The name he gave to the first island discovered
San Salvador
The name the natives gave to this island
Guanahaní
The fort he built on the first voyage
La Navidad
The island on which it was built
Hispaniola
Treaty in which the world was divided in a Spanish and a Portuguese part
Treaty of Tordesillas
Island where he first saw land on the second voyage
Dominica
The second colony he created, when seeing that the first fort had burned down
La Isabela
Island of which he thought it was part of the mainland
Cuba
Island where he first saw land on the third voyage
Trinidad
Large river he saw on the third voyage, convincing him he was on a continent, not an island
Orinoco
Southernmost country reached on the fourth voyage
Panama
Island where he was marooned for a year
Jamaica
Year in which Columbus died
1506
City where he died
Valladolid
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