Which Portuguese explorer first reached Brazil in 1500?
Answer
Pedro Álvares Cabral
83042 Easy Trivia Questions
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Which explorer reached Newfoundland in 1497 under the English flag?
Answer
John Cabot
What ocean did Ferdinand Magellan name the 'Peaceful Sea'?
Answer
Pacific Ocean
Which country sponsored Vasco da Gama's voyage to India in 1498?
Answer
Portugal
Which pharaoh introduced the worship of the sun disk Aten?
Answer
Akhenaten
What is the modern name for the ancient Egyptian collection of funerary spells?
Answer
The Book of the Dead
Which bird was sacred to the Egyptian god Thoth?
Answer
Ibis
Who deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs using the Rosetta Stone?
Answer
Jean-François Champollion
In which year was the Rosetta Stone discovered?
Answer
1799
Which pharaoh built the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Answer
Khufu
What type of stone forms the core of the Great Pyramid of Giza?
Answer
Limestone
What plant's stems were used to create the writing material papyrus?
Answer
Papyrus plant
Which 19th Dynasty pharaoh signed a peace treaty after the Battle of Kadesh?
Answer
Ramesses II
Who was the last active pharaoh of ancient Egypt before it became a Roman province?
Answer
Cleopatra VII
Which female pharaoh built a famous mortuary temple at Deir el-Bahri?
Answer
Hatshepsut
Which ancient Egyptian structure is the only surviving wonder of the ancient world?
Answer
Great Pyramid of Giza
Which British author created the character Sherlock Holmes?
Answer
Arthur Conan Doyle
Which British nurse became known as 'The Lady with the Lamp' during the Crimean War?
Answer
Florence Nightingale
What was the name of the glass and iron building that housed the Great Exhibition of 1851?
Answer
The Crystal Palace
Who invented the Rover safety bicycle in 1885?
Answer
John Kemp Starley
Which British painter created 'The Fighting Temeraire'?
Answer
J.M.W. Turner
Which British author wrote 'Treasure Island'?
Answer
Robert Louis Stevenson
Which novel by Charles Dickens begins 'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times'?
Answer
A Tale of Two Cities
What was the name of the first photograph taken in England, by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1835?
Answer
The Oriel Window
Which British explorer first reached Lake Victoria in 1858?
Answer
John Hanning Speke
What was the name of Queen Victoria's favorite Scottish residence?
Answer
Balmoral Castle