by BlastRoom
A quiz about long voyages, hard journeys and the people who mapped them.

24 questions
One question set, multiple game modes. Tap any game to see it in action. Not sure which to pick?
Answer to place stones and capture territory.
Outrun the snow together.
Earn blasts, then hunt the other team.
Answer to earn energy, then climb.

The class blasts through walls together.
Bid on mystery lots. Most money wins.
Sell tours. Nice, standard, or a total scam.
Answer, restock, and serve the rush.
More correct answers pulls the rope your way.
Answer, then shoot down the alien wave.
Answer, then tap to leap the frozen ridge.
Whose expedition sailed from Spain in 1519 on the first voyage to circle the globe?
Magellan was killed in the Philippines. Who captained the single ship that finished the voyage in 1522?

Who led the first European ships to sail round Africa to India, reaching Calicut in 1498?
Who was the first European known to have sailed round the Cape of Good Hope, in 1488?

Which admiral commanded seven enormous Ming treasure fleets across the Indian Ocean?
Which Moroccan scholar travelled for about thirty years across Africa and Asia and dictated an account called the Rihla?
Which Venetian merchant's book described years spent in the service of Kublai Khan?
Which people were already living on the Caribbean islands where Columbus landed in 1492?
Norse sailors reached North America around the year 1000, and their camp at L'Anse aux Meadows sits on which island?
James Cook was killed in 1779 during a fight at Kealakekua Bay, in which island group?
Matthew Flinders' voyage of 1801 to 1803 charted the coast of which landmass, confirming it was one continent?

Who led the first party to reach the South Pole, in December 1911?
Which British officer reached the South Pole in January 1912 and found that another team had beaten him to it?
Which ship was crushed by pack ice in the Weddell Sea in 1915, stranding Shackleton's crew?
Fridtjof Nansen deliberately froze which ship into the Arctic ice so it would drift with the floe?
Between 1903 and 1906 the tiny ship Gjoa became the first to sail right through which Arctic sea route?

Who sailed disguised as a man on Bougainville's expedition and became the first woman known to have travelled round the world?
Which region did Mary Kingsley travel through in the 1890s, collecting freshwater fish for the British Museum?

Alexandra David-Neel travelled in disguise in 1924 to reach which Tibetan city, then closed to outsiders?

The Lewis and Clark expedition travelled up the Missouri and over the Rockies to reach which ocean in 1805?
Sacagawea, who interpreted and guided for Lewis and Clark, belonged to which people?

Which river did David Livingstone follow to the falls known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya?
The campaign led by Hernan Cortes from 1519, fought alongside many Indigenous allies, brought down which empire?

Which Prussian naturalist spent five years from 1799 measuring plants, rocks and weather across South America?

Crack the passcode before the zombies get in.
Answer, then swat bugs for bonus points.
Race through questions at your own speed.
Same question on every screen. Fastest wins.

Pick a tile, answer, hit bonuses and steals.
24 questions