Charting the Unknown

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• 01·Which Italian merchant's travels to Asia were documented in "The Travels of Marco Polo"?
• 02·What is the tallest mountain above sea level, first summited by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953?
• 03·Alexander Fleming is credited with discovering which major antibiotic in 1928?
• 04·Which explorer led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth, though he died during the voyage?
• 05·Who was the Shoshone woman that guided the Lewis and Clark Expedition through the American West?
• 06·What river, flowing north through northeastern Africa, is widely considered the longest in the world?
• 07·Charles Darwin's observations on which group of islands were crucial to his theory of evolution by natural selection?
• 08·Who was the first woman to travel into space, aboard the Vostok 6 mission in 1963?
• 09·The discovery of which artifact in 1799 was the key to deciphering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs?
• 10·Which British middle-distance athlete was the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes?