Christopher Columbus left on his first voyage in this year.
What is 1492?
100
This is the country where Magellan was born.
What is Portugal?
100
Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco da Gama were both from this country.
What is Portugal?
100
This explorer was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Who is Edmund Hillary?
100
DAILY DOUBLE! The Age of Exploration took place between these centuries.
What are the 14th - 16th centuries?
200
This is the country where Columbus was born.
What is Italy?
200
DAILY DOUBLE! This is the country where Magellan died.
What is the Philippines?
200
Both of these explorers were trying to find this.
What is a sea route to India?
200
This explorer was the first to reach the South Pole.
Who is Roald Amundsen?
200
Europeans wanted to reach the Far East to find these things. (List at least 2.)
What are silk, spices, gold, silver and jewels?
300
These are the first 2 stops which Columbus made on his first voyage.
What are the Canary Islands and the Bahamas?
300
This is the year in which Magellan left Spain.
What is 1519?
300
Dias spotted the cape at the southern tip of Africa before returning home and gave it this name due to the weather.
What is 'The Cape of Storms'?
300
This is the name of the leader of the British team who was racing the Norwegians to get to the South Pole first.
Who is Robert Falcon Scott?
300
This group of people blocked the trade routes to Asia in 1453, which meant that Europeans had to find a route by sea.
Who are the Turks? (Ottoman Turks)
400
These are the names of the 3 ships from Columbus's first voyage.
What are the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria?
400
This is the name that Magellan gave to the Pacific Ocean.
What is 'el Mar Pacifico'? (This means 'peaceful sea'.)
400
The King of Portugal gave the cape this new name.
What is The Cape of Good Hope?
400
Neil Armstrong was the first person to step foot on the moon in this year.
What is 1969?
400
Explorers used this tool to calculate the height of the sun and stars. This helped them to determine latitude.
What is a quadrant? (Or 'astrolabe')
500
This is the name that Columbus gave to the settlement he built in Hispaniola (Haiti) before leaving to return to Spain. 40 men stayed behind here during Columbus's return voyage.
What is La Navidad?
500
These are the names of 4 of Magellan's fleet of 5 ships.
What are the San Antonio, Santiago, Concepcion, Victoria and Trinidad.
500
Choose your answer:
1) Vasco da Gama reached India in this year.
2) This is the name of the town in India which he first sailed to.
1) What is 1498?
2) What is Calicut?
500
This is the famous quote Neil Armstrong said when he took his first steps on the moon.
What is 'That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.'?
500
This is the name of one of the types of ships used during the Age of Exploration.