1. Which explorer showed the present New Guinea to be an island by sailing around it?

    Luis Vaez de Torres

    Abel Janszoon Tasman

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Jakob Le Maire

2. Who flew faster than the speed of sound and broke the sound barrier?

    Yuri Gagarin

    Charles E. Yeager

    Wernher von Braun

    None as yet

3. Which explorer crossed the Arctic Circle by sea for the first time?

    Brendon

    Ottar

    Cyril

    None as yet

4. Who explored outer space by using satellites and discovered the magnetosphere?

    James van Allen

    Edwin Hubble

    John Glenn

    Karl Jansky

5. Which explorer is known to have sighted Antarctica for the first time?

    Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen

    Nathaniel B. Palmer

    Edward Bransfield

    All

6. Which explorer discovered and brought back previously unknown species of Przhevalsky's horse?

    Nikolay Mikhaylovich Przhevalsky

    Nikolai Vavilov

    David Livingstone

    James Cook

7. Which explorer led the team that crossed Greenland by land for the first time?

    Robert Scott

    Roald Amundsen

    Fridtjof Nanscn

    Robert Peary

8. Which exploratory spacecraft was the first to travel to another planet, Venus?

    Mariner-2

    Gemini-2

    Zond-III

    Venera-III

9. Which explorer discovered the first fossilized dinosaur eggs in the Gobi desert?

    Edward Lewis

    Robert Broom

    Roy Chapman Andrews

    Margaret Mead

10. Which explorer flew over the North Pole for the first time?

    Robert Peary

    Richard E. Byrd

    Matthew Hensen

    James C. Ross