Galleon Quiz: questions and answers

1. Who were the first to use a galleon?

The French

The Portuguese

The Spanish

2. What was the difference between the galleon and the older types?

It was shorter

It was lower

it was broader

3. In which year was the São João galleon built?

1535

1536

1534

4. What was the most common gun used aboard a galleon?

Demi-culverin

Tsar Cannon

Bomb

5. Galleons were widely used until:

19th century

18th century

17th century

6. What was the name of the Spanish Galeon of Assateague that shipwrecked in 1794?

La Galga

San Salvador

Adler von Lubeck

7. What was the flagship vessel in the Joao Rodriguez Cabrilho's 1542 exploration of present-day California in the United States?

San Pelayo

São João

San Salvador

8. What is the only original galleon to be conserved?

Vasa

Padre Eterno

Revenge

9. Who did the manuscript called "Fragments of Ancient Shipwrightry"?

John Hawkins

Sir Francis Drake

Mathew Baker

10. In what year did the galleon San Juan Bautista cross the Pacific Ocean?

1580

1614

1591

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