Orginaly published in the Royal Navy in a series of illustrations.
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Today’s first question concerns the date May 26th. The subsequent questions share a theme established in the first one.
One
On 26 May 1876, HMS Challenger returned to Great Britain from a three-and-a-half-year, groundbreaking oceanographic expedition which circumnavigated the Earth. How many miles or kilometres, to the nearest 1,000, did the ship sail on its voyage?
Two
These three points all relate to the same person, and there are three answers.
- What is the name of the explorer and navigator after whom the Americas are named?
- In what modern country is his birthplace?
- What two countries sponsored his voyages?
Three
These three points all relate to the same person, there is only one answer..
- Edgar Allan Poe dedicated his final major work Eureka: A Prose Poem to this scientist and explorer
- The same explorer authored the five-volume treatise Kosmos (1845-62)
- Charles Darwin read and referenced Helen Maria Williams’s English translation of this explorer’s Relation historique du voyage aux régions équinoxiales du nouveau continent during his voyage on the HMS Beagle.
Which explorer do the above all refer to?
Four
How many years did Marco Polo spend travelling across Asia?
Five
In what century did a Greek explorer first visit the British Isles?
Good luck! I’ll post the answers later.
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