1. Which explorer, the first to reach the South Pole in 1911, is memorialized in the name of a research station located there — Roald Amundsen or Robert Peary?
2. Which explorer discovered Byzantine shipwrecks in oxygen “dead zones” on the floor of the Black Sea — Robert Ballard or Sylvia Earle?
3. Which European explorer traveled around the Great Australian Bight by land during the mid-1800s and was awarded a gold medal by the Royal Geographic Society — Edward John Eyre or William Dampier?
4. Although he did not succeed in finding the Northwest Passage, which British explorer sailed near a large Arctic island that now bears his name — Francis Drake or William Baffin?
5. Which explorer’s scientific expedition to Latin America from 1799 to 1804 resulted in his use of isotherms to compare climates — Alexander von Humboldt or Francisco Pizarro?
6. Which explorer shares his name with the river he followed north to its mouth on the Beaufort Sea — Alexander Mackenzie or Pierre-Esprit Radisson?
7. Which Portuguese explorer is regarded as the first European to make landfall on the coast of present-day Brazil — Vasco da Gama or Pedro Alvares Cabral?
8. Which explorer set out from Morocco and spent nearly 30 years traveling to such places as Mecca, India and present-day Tanzania — Marco Polo or Ibn Battuta?
9. To test a hypothesis that the original inhabitants of Polynesian islands sailed there from South America, which explorer sailed on a raft called the Kon-Tiki — Thor Heyerdahl or Vitus Bering?
10. Searching for the fabled golden city known as El Dorado, which explorer set sail from England for the New World at the end of the 16th century — Walter Raleigh or Humphrey Gilbert?
ANSWERS: 1. Roald Amundsen 2. Robert Ballard 3. Edward John Eyre 4. William Baffin 5. Alexander von Humboldt 6. Alexander Mackenzie 7. Pedro Alvares Cabral 8. Ibn Battuta 9. Thor Heyerdahl 10. Walter Raleigh
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