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World Discoveries Trivia Quiz

Test your knowledge of discoveries around the world.

Posted: May 14, 2010
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Question#1

What explorer was responsible for the European discovery of the East coast of Australia?

  • Ferdinand Magellan
  • Walter Raleigh
  • James Cook
  • Alexander MacKenzie
Question#2

Who discovered and named the process of osmosis?

  • Madame Curie
  • Pasteur
  • Albert Einstein
  • Henri Dutrochet
Question#3

What explorer is credited with discovering Newfoundland around 1497?

  • Christopher Columbus
  • Fancis Drake
  • John Cabot
  • Lewis Clark
Question#4

Columbus was sailing under the flag of what country when he discovered America?

  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Greece
  • France
Question#5

Which element was discovered by Daniel Rutherford?

  • Hydrogen
  • Helium
  • Boron
  • Nitrogen
Question#6

In what town was gold discovered giving rise to the California gold rush?

  • Sacramento, Ca.
  • Placerville, Ca.
  • Auburn, Ca.
  • Coloma, Ca.
Question#7

Who discovered X-Rays?

  • Curie
  • Fleming
  • Einstein
  • Roentgen
Question#8

Who discovered penicillin?

  • Banting and Best
  • Marie Curie
  • Louis Pasteur
  • Alexander Fleming
Question#9

What did Alexander Fleming discover?

  • Gravity
  • Diesel Engine
  • Viagra
  • Penicillin
Question#10

Who besides Louis Joliet discovered the upper Mississippi River?

  • Samuel de Champlain
  • Jacques Cartier
  • Sieur de la Salle
  • Jean Nicolet
Question#11

What was discovered by Dr. Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1985?

  • Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
  • Wreck of the Titanic
  • Wreck of the Andrea Doria
  • Atlantis
Question#12

Who was the first explorer to sail around the Cape of Good Hope?

  • Vasco de Gama
  • Amerigo Vespucci
  • Ferdinand Magellan
  • Christopher Columbus