Q 01/05
A) Cambridge geologist
B) Merchant seaman
C) Army surgeon
D) Royal Navy officer
Answer · why
He entered HMS Britannia as a 13-year-old cadet in 1881 and rose to captain after the Discovery Expedition.
Q 02/05
A) Three
B) Two
C) One
D) Four
Answer · why
The Discovery Expedition of 1901-04 and the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-13.
Q 03/05
A) 29 March 1912
B) 1 November 1911
C) 17 January 1912
D) 14 December 1911
Answer · why
They found Amundsen's tent and a letter dated 18 December waiting for them.
Q 04/05
A) Cardiff, South Wales
B) Leith, near Edinburgh
C) Portsmouth, Hampshire
D) Near Devonport, Plymouth
Answer · why
His father John was a brewer and magistrate whose later financial ruin left the family dependent on Scott's naval pay.
Q 05/05
A) Fridtjof Nansen
B) John Murray
C) Clements Markham
D) Ernest Shackleton
Answer · why
He had first noticed Scott as an 18-year-old midshipman winning a cutter race in St Kitts in 1887.
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