Question : Who discovered America?
Option 1: Vasco da Gama
Option 2: Columbus
Option 3: Captain Cook
Option 4: Amundsen
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Correct Answer: Columbus
Solution : The correct answer is Columbus.
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), an explorer, is well remembered for his 1492 'discovery' of the 'new continent' of the Americas aboard his ship Santa Maria. He was an Italian adventurer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who performed four Spanish-sponsored trips across the Atlantic Ocean, paving the way for broad European discovery and European colonisation of the Americas.
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Question : Who discovered the sea route to India?
Option 3: Magellan
Option 4: Bartolomeu Dias
Question : Who discovered the sea route to India via the 'Cape of Good Hope'?
Option 2: Roald Amundsen
Option 3: Christopher Columbus
Option 4: John Cabot
Question : Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer came to India in ___.
Option 1: 1496
Option 2: 1498
Option 3: 1495
Option 4: 1497
Question : Name the Indian king who warmly received the Portuguese traveller Vasco da Gama when he landed at Calicut.
Option 1: Asaf Jah Ismail Mulk
Option 2: Deva Raya II
Option 3: Zamorin
Option 4: Krishnadevaraya
Question : Directions: Arrange the following words as per order in the dictionary. 1. Billian 2. Bifurcate 3. Bilateral 4. Bilirubin
Option 1: 2, 1, 3, 4
Option 2: 4, 3, 2, 1
Option 3: 2, 3, 4, 1
Option 4: 2, 3, 1, 4
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