Professor Noggin's Explorers

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Easy

1 William Bligh was the captain of what famous ship, until members of his crew mutinied and dumped him in the Pacific Ocean in a lifeboat?

2 Privateers opereted much like pirates, but were granted a licence by one country to attack ships from other countries. True or False?

3 Vasco da Gama, the first European to sail India, was of what nationallity?


Hard

1 Ships sailing around the Cape of Good Hope were passing along the southern tip of which continent?

2 The Age of Exploration began in the early 1400s. What country ruled the seas in the beginning: England, France, Portugal, or Spain?

3 Who named the Pacific Ocean: Ferdinand Magellan, Hernando Cortes, James Cook, or Vasco da Gama?

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