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Pop Quiz: Explorers and Adventurers

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1.   Where did Christopher Columbus believe he had landed in 1492?
    Florida
    East Indies
    Japan

2.   Sent on a rescue mission to Africa to find the explorer David Livingstone, journalist Henry Morton Stanley eventually tracked him down and issued the famous greeting, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" Later Stanley continued in Livingstone's footsteps, on a quest to find what?
    The Horn of Africa
    The source of the Nile
    Timbuktu

3.   Who was the first mountain climber to summit all fourteen of the world's 8,000-meter peaks without the use of supplemental oxygen?
    David Breashears
    Reinhold Messner
    Tenzing Norgay

4.   The epitome of the American frontiersman, this folk hero took a break from fighting battles, claiming new territory, and embellishing his own mythic persona to serve two terms in the U.S. Congress.
    Daniel Boone
    Kit Carson
    Davy Crockett

5.   Which adventurer dropped out of Amherst College, went on an expedition bordering the Arctic Circle, and returned to become a pioneer the frozen food industry?
    Clarence Birdseye
    Vernon B. Stouffer
    Leo "Green Giant" Burnett

6.   Which of these men became the first to climb the north face of the Eiger, managed to escape from a POW camp, was one of the first Westerners to enter the forbidden kingdom of Tibet, and became a life-long friend of the Dalai Lama?
    Hermann Buhl
    Heinrich Harrar
    Robert Thurman

7.   The body found on Mount Everest in May 1999 was that of:
    Andrew Irvine
    George Mallory
    Edmund Hillary

8.   Which of these writers and African adventurers was also a professional pilot?
    Beryl Markham
    Karen Blixen
    Mary Leakey

9.   After Frederick Cook was discredited as the first person to reach the North Pole, which explorer was credited? (That is, if we ignore evidence from the 1990s that he too may have fabricated his claim.)
    Richard Byrd
    Henry Hudson
    Robert Peary

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