History quiz
Explorers and their voyages
From Columbus in 1492 to Darwin's voyage on the Beagle. Ten questions on who sailed where, when and in what.
- Format
- Pick the answer
- Items
- 10 questions
- Limit
- None
- Level
- Medium
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- Questions
- 10
- Options
- 4 each
- Time limit
- None
- Click an option, or press 1 to 4.
- A short note follows every answer.
- Enter moves to the next question.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
About this quiz
The great age of exploration is usually placed in the second half of the 15th century and the early 16th, when Spanish and Portuguese voyages opened up the world beyond Europe's coastline.
- Columbus sailed in 1492, da Gama reached India in 1498 and Magellan's expedition circled the globe from 1519 to 1522.
- James Cook commanded three voyages of discovery between 1768 and 1780.
- Cook's second voyage, from 1772 to 1775, took him right around the Antarctic.
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