🏛️ History trivia
Brave travelers who crossed oceans, mountains, and ice to map our world.
◈ A taste of the pack
Three questions from this pack. Guess first, then reveal the answer — in the game, everyone answers on their phone and the TV shows who got it right.
Q1 Which frozen continent did explorers race to reach the South Pole on?
Antarctica — Antarctica is the frozen continent around the South Pole, and explorers raced there in 1911 and 1912.
Q2 Vasco da Gama found a sea route from Europe to India by sailing around Africa.
True — Vasco da Gama sailed around Africa and reached India in 1498, opening a sea route from Europe.
Q3 Which Viking explorer is believed to have reached North America about 500 years before Columbus?
Leif Erikson — Leif Erikson, a Norse explorer, reached North America around the year 1000, nearly 500 years before Columbus.
Game night in three steps
Open QuizKeep on the TV, laptop or tablet everyone can see, tap Host a game and pick Famous Explorers & Their Journeys.
Everyone scans the QR code or types the room code. No downloads and no accounts.
Questions appear on the big screen, answers on every phone. After each one, the board explains the right answer.
Famous Explorers & Their Journeys is a premium pack, and you can play 5 of its questions free first, solo or on the TV with everyone. Love it? Unlock all 15 on their own, or get All-Access, which opens every pack in the library. QuizKeep itself, and its free starter packs, cost nothing.
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