Memorize these and recognize 41.4% of all Explorers clues.
| # | Answer | Count | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Christopher Columbus | 21 | On Oct. 12, 1492 he wrote, "this afternoon the people of San Salvador came swimming to our ships" |
| 2 | Vitus Bering | 15 | Danish captain hired by Russia who made a "strait" line to Alaska |
| 3 | Vasco da Gama | 14 | ( Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) Leaving Portugal in July 1497, going around Africa & with the help of a pilot from Malindi, this e... |
| 4 | Roald Amundsen | 13 | This Norwegian's autobiography, "My Life as an Explorer", was published in 1927, a year before he was lost in the Arctic |
| 5 | Henry Hudson | 12 | In 1609 he led his men across the Atlantic & up what became known as his river, to Albany |
| 6 | Captain Cook | 12 | In 1769 this Brit found Tahiti by sailing west until he ran into it |
| 7 | Ponce de Leon | 11 | In 1513 he took one of the first Florida cruises, starting near what's now St. Augustine |
| 8 | Sir Edmund Hillary | 11 | In the 1950s this New Zealand mountaineer blazed a trail for Sir Vivian Fuchs, the first to cross Antarctica |
| 9 | Stanley | 10 | The famous greeting "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" is attributed to him |
| 10 | Marco Polo | 10 | He introduced to Europe paper money & coal as fuel which he brought back from China |
| 11 | Ferdinand Magellan | 10 | Sailing on behalf of Spain in 1519, this Portuguese explorer's trip proved the Americas were a new world |
| 12 | John Cabot | 10 | In 1495 Henry VII gave this man then known as Giovanni (later John) letters of patent to explore & he reached N. America |
| 13 | Sir Francis Drake | 10 | Commanding the Pelican in 1578, this English circumnavigator reached the South American coast |
| 14 | Dr. Livingstone | 9 | After studying medicine in the 1830s, this explorer & missionary hoped to be sent to China but ended up in Africa instead |
| 15 | Brazil | 8 | What mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller labeled "America" for Amerigo Vespucci is now this country |
| 16 | Pizarro | 8 | With about 180 men & 3 ships, he set out for Peru from Central America in January 1531 |
| 17 | Hernando de Soto | 8 | In 1536 Spain's King Charles I made this explorer governor of Cuba; he arrived near present-day Tampa Bay in 1539 |
| 18 | Antarctica | 7 | In 1897 Roald Amundsen was first mate aboard the Belgica, a Belgian ship exploring this continent |
| 19 | Verrazano | 7 | N.Y. observes a holiday honoring the 1524 discovery of N.Y. Harbor by this Italian navigator |
| 20 | the Northwest Passage | 7 | Martin Frobisher was one of the first Englishmen to look for this supposed route that led from Europe to Asia |
| 21 | Sir Richard Burton | 7 | In 1861, 3 years after reaching the shores of Lake Tanganyika, he became the first to ascend Mount Cameroon |
| 22 | La Salle | 7 | Rene-Robert Cavelier, who sailed down the Mississippi to its mouth, took this title, after his family manor |
| 23 | Balboa | 7 | In 1516 he disassembled his ships on the Atlantic side of Panama & reassembled them on the Pacific side |
| 24 | the North Pole | 7 | Not quite Robert Peary, Edward Parry did set a record for this in 1827, reaching over 82 degrees latitude |
| 25 | Samuel de Champlain | 7 | In 1604 this "Father of New France" founded the Acadia colony at the mouth of Canada's St. Croix River |
| 26 | Timbuktu | 6 | Medieval Arab traveler Ibn Battuta covered some 75,000 miles, including visits to China & this city in Mali |
| 27 | Lewis & Clark | 6 | Co-commanders of the 1st U.S. expedition to explore from Mississippi to the west coast |
| 28 | the Cape of Good Hope | 6 | In 1500 Bartolomeu Dias died in a storm off this cape, which he called the Cape of Storms |
| 29 | Abel Tasman | 6 | In January 1643 this Dutchman left New Zealand & a month later became the first European to reach Fiji |
| 30 | Mecca | 5 | Ludovico di Varthema learned enough Arabic to pass himself off as a Muslim & was able to enter this holy city in 1503 |
| 31 | Leif Erikson | 5 | Norse explorer who landed in America 500 years before Columbus |
| 32 | Verrazzano | 5 | On his ship La Dauphine, this Florentine captain became the first European to sail into New York Harbor |
| 33 | the South Pole | 4 | Roald Amundsen reached this point in December 1911 & told the world 3 months later in a telegram from Australia |
| 34 | the Mississippi | 4 | De Soto the discoverer of this main U.S. river, was buried in it |
| 35 | Sir Walter Raleigh | 4 | In addition to claiming Virginia for England in 1584, he led 2 expeditions to the Orinoco River |
| 36 | Sebastian Cabot | 4 | After a failed expedition to South America, this son of an Italian explorer was banished from Spain |
| 37 | Matthew Henson | 4 | In 1969 his autobiography of 57 years earlier was republished as "A Black Explorer at the North Pole" |
| 38 | Marquette | 4 | Louis Joliet & this Catholic priest explored the Mississippi River during June & July 1673 |
| 39 | Leif Ericson | 4 | In a ship he bought from Bjarni Herjulfsson, he set sail in 1001 & found Vinland |
| 40 | Greenland | 4 | In 1888 Fridtjof Nansen crossed the big ice cap in the interior of this big island |
| 41 | Easter Island | 4 | James Cook's account of a 1774 visit here records an object "near 27 feet long, and upwards of 8 feet over the breast or shoulders" |
| 42 | the Nile | 4 | From 1856-62, Sir Richard Burton, John Speke, & James Grant "competed" in finding the source of this |
| 43 | Robert Falcon Scott | 4 | On March 18, 1912 he wrote in his diary, "My right foot has gone, nearly all the toes..." |
| 44 | Richard Byrd | 4 | His 1930 book "Little America" is an account of his flight to the South Pole |
| 45 | Peary | 4 | ( Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from the Explorers Club in New York.) For his drive to the North Pole in 1909, this explorer used 19 sleds of his ow... |
| 46 | Cortes | 4 | When he reached Mexico in 1519, many believed he was the god Quetzalcoatl |
| 47 | Coronado | 4 | While searching for the 7 Cities of Cibola in 1540, this conquistador's party reached the Grand Canyon |
| 48 | Thor Heyerdahl | 4 | This famous explorer was born in Larvik, Norway October 6, 1914 |
| 49 | the Santa Maria | 4 | On Christmas Day 1492, this ship ran aground off Hispaniola & was abandoned |
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