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Will you master the route to Calicut or sink in this brutal Vasco da Gama quiz?

Great Explorers

Difficulty

Medium

Questions

20

Volts

2/q

Four ships left Lisbon in July 1497 to rewrite the map. You face the same brutal stakes as da Gama. Can you name the Portuguese monarch who funded the gamble or the port city that provided the pilot? The Indian Ocean is unforgiving, and only the sharpest minds survive the crossing.

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