Motivations
Places/routes
Challenges
Who?
Misc.
100
Juan Ponce de Leon was searching for this thing.
What is the fountain of youth?
100
Leif Erikson explored the place now called this (hint: it starts with "new."
What is Newfoundland?
100
To become an astronaut Mae Jemison had to first do this.
What is beat out 2000 other applicants for the job?
100
This explorer discovered the start of the Mississippi River?
Who is Zebulon Pike?
100
Sacajawea was this age when she explored with Lewis and Clark? (hint: she was a teenager)
What is 15 years old?
200
As part of Lewis and Clark's journey Sacagawea was trying to find what?
What is a water route to the Pacific?
200
Mary Kingsley is known for her travels on this continent.
What is Africa?
200
Marco Polo almost drank this when he was traveling across the desert.
What is green poison?
200
This person proved that the world is round.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
This number of men travelled with Shackleton on his Antarctic voyage?
What is 22?
300
Erik the Red went on his journey because he was exiled from this place.
What is Iceland?
300
The Strait of Magellan is named for Magellan's travel around the tip of this continent.
What is South America?
300
This happened to Zebulon Pike's tent when he was camping.
What is it was burned by fire?
300
This explorer was an Italian merchant.
Who is Marco Polo?
300
Marco Polo was this old when he died.
What is 69 years old?
400
Two of Columbus's motivations for traveling to Asia were these.
What are money, fame, and land?
400
Name one of the two countries that Pytheas mainly explored.
What are Norway and Iceland?
400
Ernest Shackleton was most challenged by this when he was trying to make his way across Antarctica.
What is keeping all of his men alive?
400
She was the first African-American female to go to space.
Who is Mae Jemison?
400
Leif Erikson travelled in something called a knarr. A knarr is a type of this.
What is a ship?
500
Vasco da Gama wanted to explore Africa for these reasons.
What was gold and pleasing his king?
500
This explorer travelled between Tanzania and Zambia in Africa.
Who is David Livingstone?
500
Two of the challenges nature posed to Erik the Red were these.
What is icebergs and storms?
500
This man is known as the discoverer of Florida?
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
500
The true "discoverers" of America are...
Who is...native Americans? Ancient Siberians? Vikings? Some people?
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