Question

The following pairs are given about discoverer and discovery. Choose incorrect pair from the following.

• A. Mungopark- Discovered basins of the Niger river
• B. Livingstone- Discovered basins of the Zambezi river
• C. Christopher Columbus- Discovered American Continent
• D. Bartholomew Dias- Circumnavigation of the earth

Answer 1

The correct option is D Bartholomew Dias- Circumnavigation of the earth

• Mungo Park was a Scottish explorer who discovered basins of Niger River.
  
• Livingstone was a Scottish explorer who was famous for his obsession of discovering source of Nile water and discovered Zambezi river
  
• Bartholomew Dias was famous as the first European to sail around the southernmost tip of Africa. Ferdinand Magellan was the Portuguese sailor who circumnavigated the earth.
• Christopher Columbus discovered America.