Early Life
Discoveries
Voyages
Challenges
Potpuorri
100
This is the continent where Christopher Columbus was born.
Where is Europe?
100
This is the New World.
Which place did Christopher Columbus discover on his voyages?
100
This country funded all of Christopher Columbus's voyages.
What is Spain?
100
This is one feeling the crew members had on Christopher Columbus's first voyage.
What are defiant, nervous, etc.?
100
Christopher Columbus and Bartholomew started this kind of business.
What is map-making?
200
This is the city where Christopher Columbus was born.
Where is Genoa, Italy?
200
These are what Columbus discovered on his voyages (name three).
What are parrots,fish bone belts, Native Americans, exotic fruits, vegetables,plants, and spices, dogs that didn't bark, hammocks, cigars, etc.?
200
This is was the person who funded Christopher Columbus's voyages.
Who was Queen Isabella?
200
These people could be nice,or they could be mean. Sometimes they traded with Christopher Columbus, and sometimes they attacked.
What are Native Americans?
200
These were the names of the three ships on Christopher Columbus's first voyage.
What were the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria?
300
This is the year Christopher Columbus was born.
When was 1451?
300
He named an island about 600 miles southeast of what is now Florida this because it was very like Spain.
What is Hispaniola, or Little Spain?
300
This is the year when he sailed his first voyage.
When was 1492?
300
This is what Christopher Columbus was attacked by when he sailed with a fleet of ships carrying cargo from Genoa to England in 1476.
What are pirates.
300
This person was Christopher Columbus's son.
Who was Diego?
400
These are the names of Christopher Columbus's younger brothers.
Who were Bartholomew and Diego?
400
These are some things that Christopher Columbus hoped to find, but didn't (name two).
What are gold mines, a route to the Indies, rich orientals, etc.?
400
This is the number of voyages that Christopher Columbus went on.
What is four?
400
This was the ship that sank on Christopher Columbus's first voyage.
What was the Santa Maria?
400
This is who Christopher Columbus was married to.
Who was Donna Felipa?
500
This was Christopher Columbus's father's job.
What is weaving cloth?
500
He named what is now Haiti this because of the many swarms of mosquitoes that Christopher Columbus and his crew were attacked by.
Why did Christopher Columbus name what is now Haiti the "Bay of Mosquitoes"?
500
This was the name of the ship Christopher Columbus commanded on his first voyage.
What was the Santa Maria?
500
This person deserted Christopher Columbus and took the Pinta to look for gold on Christopher Columbus's first voyage.
Who was Martin Pinzon?
500
This is the meaning of Christopher Columbus's first name.
What is "Christ-bearer"?
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