Statistics for Columbus quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The year he left on his first voyage	1492	90%
The ships he sailed with	Santa María	90%
The city where Columbus was (probably) born	Genoa	86%
	Isabella of Castile	81%
	Pinta	81%
	Niña	76%
The king and queen of Spain in whose service he sailed	Ferdinand II of Aragon	71%
The island on which it was built	Hispaniola	48%
Island of which he thought it was part of the mainland	Cuba	38%
Year in which Columbus died	1506	24%
The Spanish version of his name (family name suffices)	Cristóbal Colón	24%
Island where he first saw land on the second voyage	Dominica	19%
Island where he was marooned for a year	Jamaica	19%
Southernmost country reached on the fourth voyage	Panama	19%
Island where he first saw land on the third voyage	Trinidad	14%
The name he gave to the first island discovered	San Salvador	10%
Treaty in which the world was divided in a Spanish and a Portuguese part	Treaty of Tordesillas	10%
City where he died	Valladolid	10%
The name of the brothers who sailed the two smaller ships	Martín Alonso and Vicente Yáñez Pinzón	5%
The port from which he left	Palos	5%
The name the natives gave to this island	Guanahaní	0%
The second colony he created, when seeing that the first fort had burned down	La Isabela	0%
The fort he built on the first voyage	La Navidad	0%
Large river he saw on the third voyage, convincing him he was on a continent, not an island	Orinoco	0%