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Charting the Unknown: Multiple Choice
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- 01Which explorer led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth, though he died during the voyage?
- 02What is the tallest mountain above sea level, first summited by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953?
- 03Who was the Shoshone woman that guided the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the American West?
- 04What river, flowing north through northeastern Africa, is widely considered the longest in the world?
- 05Which Italian merchant's travels to Asia were documented in "The Travels of Marco Polo"?
- 06Who was the first woman to travel into space, aboard the Vostok 6 mission in 1963?
- 07Which British middle-distance athlete was the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes?
- 08The discovery of which artifact in 1799 was the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs?
- 09Charles Darwin's observations on which group of islands were crucial to his theory of evolution by natural selection?
- 10Alexander Fleming is credited with discovering which major antibiotic in 1928?