Captain Cook Society (CCS) Quiz 3

Over the years the CCS has held several quizzes through its journal, Cook's Log.
These are reproduced for you on our web site, so you can take part and test your knowledge of Captain Cook, even if the prizes have long ago been claimed!

Here is Quiz 3.
The questions originally appeared in 1984 (Vol. 7, no. 4, page 312) and the answers the following year (Vol. 8, no. 2, page 354).
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The Answers

Question number Answer  
1. Society Islands.  
2. Artist.  
3. Impenetrable ice field which blocked his path.  
4. William Bligh.  
5. Botany Bay.  
6. Nootka Sound.  
7. Sauerkraut.  
8. New Zealand.  
9. Goat.  
10. Tobias Furneaux.  
11. New Caledonia.  
12. Chronometer.  
13. Post-captain at Greenwich hospital.  
14. Theft of a cutter.  
15. Massaged by twelve women.  
16. Charles Clerke.  
17. Alexander Dalrymple.  

Updated: April 2004


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