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Final Jeopardy

$100 Question Explorers

I wanted to be different, so in 1492, I convinced the King and Queen of Spain to sponsor my westward voyage. I landed in the Bahamas and Cuba. I made three more voyages, always believing that I had reached the Indies.

$100 Answer Explorers

Who is Christopher Columbus?

$200 Question Explorers

I traveled across Asia with my father and my uncle. When I returned, a writer named Rusticello helped me to record my adventures in a book. This book inspired many other explorers.

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Who is Marco Polo?

$300 Question Explorers

While supposedly looking for the “Fountain of Youth,” I landed in present-day Florida and claimed it for Spain. 

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Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?

$400 Question Explorers

I was sent by France to look for a Northwest Passage. Although I did not find it, I did claim land for France in present-day Canada.

$400 Answer Explorers

Who is Jacques Cartier?

$500 Question Explorers

I was curious about what Columbus had actually found, so I followed his route. I eventually realized that he had not found the Indies; he had found a New World! The New World was named in my honor.

$500 Answer Explorers

Who is Amerigo Vespucci?

$100 Question Reasons

This was the MAIN reason that Columbus sailed west from Europe.

$100 Answer Reasons

What is to find a more direct routeto Asia?

$200 Question Reasons

This was the reason both Henry Hudson andJacques Cartier explored the coast of North America.

$200 Answer Reasons

What is to find the Northwest Passage?

$300 Question Reasons

God, gold, glory, new lands, and trade routes.

$300 Answer Reasons

What are five reasons explorers explored?

$400 Question Reasons

This made it so we were able to sail farther and find new routes around theAmericas.

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What is new technology:The astrolabe, the compass, the chronometer, and maps?

$500 Question Reasons

This is the “hook” Columbus usedto get Queen Isabella to fund hisvoyage.

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What is to spread Christianity(Catholicism)?

$100 Question Landings

Ponce de Leon searched up and downthe coast of this peninsula lookingfor the Fountain of Youth.

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What is Florida?

$200 Question Landings

The Taino called this land Guanahaní.Columbus named it this when he claimedit for the King and Queen of Spain.

$200 Answer Landings

What is San Salvador?

$300 Question Landings

I realized that the land Columbus andothers discovered was not Asia, but the NewWorld. Because of this, they named it afterme.

$300 Answer Landings

What is America?

$400 Question Landings

I claimed land in this country forFrance on my third voyage. I erecteda giant cross, but told the natives thatit was just a landmark for my nextvoyage back to this country.

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What is Canada?

$500 Question Landings

Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the firstto see this from the Americas.

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What is the Pacific Ocean?

$100 Question Sponsors and Crew

This ruler wanted Jacques Cartierto establish a settlement in Canadafor his country.

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Who is the King of France?

$200 Question Sponsors and Crew

Columbus had to do this to calm the fears of his crew as they sailed across the Atlantic.

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What is lied to them about howfar they were from Spain?

$300 Question Sponsors and Crew

I was sent by English and Dutch companies to find the Northwest Passage. I claimed land in the New World for both countries, but never found a Northwest Passage. My crew turned against me and set me, my son, and several crew members adrift in a small boat. We were never heard from again.

$300 Answer Sponsors and Crew

Who is Henry Hudson?

$400 Question Sponsors and Crew

Amerigo Vespucci is an Italian, buthe sailed under these two flags.

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What are Spain and Portugal?

$500 Question Sponsors and Crew

This country sent John Cabot totry to find the Northwest Passage.

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Who is England?

$100 Question Vocabulary

This is the exchange of goods and ideas between Europeans and Native Americans

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What is the Columbian Exchange?

$200 Question Vocabulary

He founded a school in Portugal tonavigation.

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Who is Prince Henry?

$300 Question Vocabulary

This word refers to things havingto do with the ocean.

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What is maritime?

$400 Question Vocabulary

If you give up something to getsomething else, it is said to be this.

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What is opportunity cost?

$500 Question Vocabulary

This group of people landed in theAmericas 500 years before Columbus.

$500 Answer Vocabulary

Who are the Vikings?

Final Jeopardy

In 1513 Balboa and his party explored overland through dense rainforests in a west direction on this landform. On September 27 Vasco Nunez de Balboa was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from a peak he had climbed alone. What is the nameof the landform?

Final Jeopardy Answer

What is the Isthmus of Panama?