Brainteaser

Today's brainteaser is called 'Sailor Beware' and is trivia, with a difference. Today I am going to give you the answers, unfortunately each question will have four possible answers, obviously only one of them is correct. You have a one in four chance with each question!

01 Who was the first man to sail solo round the world?

Sir Francis Chichester
Robin Knox-Johnson
Joshua Slocum
Alain Colas

02 What was the name of the yacht in which Clare Francis made her solo Atlantic crossing in 1976?

Chivers' Jelly
Robertson's Golly
Pen Duick IV
Felicity Ann

03 What did the Viking sailor Lief Ericson do? Did he .....

Discover Iceland
Discover Greenland
Discover America
Establish the monastery on Lindisfarne

04 What was the name of the ship in which Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world in 1577-80?

The Nina
The Pelican
The Golden Hind
The Elizabeth

05 Which Portuguese navigator discovered the sea route to India via the Cape of good Hope? Was it .....

Henry the Navigator
Ferdinand Magellan
Vasco da Gama
Sebastian del Cano

06 What is the name of the sailor and naval officer created by C.S. Forester and subsequently played by Gregory Peck in a film of the same name?

Lord Jim
Horatio Havelock
Ross Poldark
Horatio Hornblower

07 Who was the Dutch admiral who is claimed to have swept the English from the sea during the middle of the seventeenth century? Was it .....

Cornelius van Dreben
Johannes van der Waals
Maarten van Tromp
Michel de Ruyter

08 What was the name of the German battleship sunk in a Norwegian fjord in November 1944? Was it .....

The Bismarck
The Graf Spee
The Priz Eugen
The Tirpitz

09 Where did Nelson lose his eye? Was it .....

At Calvi
At the Battle of the Nile
At the Battle of Tenerife
At the Battle of Trafalgar

10 Christopher Columbus's flagship was called the 'Santa Maria' and one of the others was the 'Pinta'. What was the name of the third one.

The Dove (Columba)
The Nina
The Santa Julia
The San Miguel