Explorers


1On the 26 March 2012, who became the first person to reach the Challenger Deep of the Mariana Trench on his own, and the third person to do so overall?
2How many people have set foot on the moon?
3Which Victorian explorer was the first European to see and name the Victoria Falls on the Zambezi river?
4The Viking, Eric the Red, was the founder of the first Scandinavian settlement on which island?
5Dr. Robert Ballard, an oceanographer and marine biologist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, found the remains of what in 1985?
6Which two men were the first to summit Mount Everest in 1953?
7What nationality was Sir Henry Morton Stanley, the journalist and explorer who was famous for his exploration of central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone?
8Who was the first woman to fly solo across the Pacific Ocean?
9Which European explorer discovered and named Lake Victoria while searching for the source of the Nile river?
10The 16th centuary Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon allegedly searched for what mythical wonder in Florida?