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Question 1: Both men clearly hoped that their expedition would locate the source of the ________.
NileWhite NileAlexandriaEgypt

Question 2: (Study of 18th Century Natural History - Includes Charles Waterton, John Hanning Speke, Henry Seebohm and ________) Contains colour and black and white reproductions.
EnglandUnited KingdomMary KingsleySamuel Baker

Question 3: He spent his leave exploring the ________ and once crossed into Tibet.
Western GhatsHimalayasDeccan PlateauHindu Kush

Question 4: In 1856, Speke and Burton went to ________ to find the great lakes which were rumoured to exist in the centre of the continent.
Southern AfricaSouth AsiaEast AfricaKenya

Question 5: Speke returned to England to recover and then served in the ________.
Crimean WarGreat Northern WarRussian Civil WarRusso-Turkish War (1877–1878)

Question 6: Speke thus went alone, and found the lake, which he christened ________.
Lake VictoriaLake TurkanaLake ElmenteitaNile

Question 7: In 1854 he made his first voyage to Africa, joining the already famous ________ on an expedition to Somalia.
Richard Francis BurtonOne Thousand and One NightsSamuel BakerIslam

Question 8: Mount Speke in the ________, Uganda was named in honour of John Speke, as an early European explorer of this region.
Rwenzori Mountains National ParkMount KenyaLake EdwardRwenzori Mountains

Question 9: Speke returned to England before Burton, on 8 May 1859 and made their trip famous in a speech to the ________ where he claimed to have discovered the source of the Nile.
Royal Geographical SocietyLaurence Dudley StampBingham Baring, 2nd Baron AshburtonFrederick Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich

Question 10: [1] The two presented joint papers concerning the expedition to the ________ on 13 June 1859.
Royal Geographical SocietyFrederick Robinson, 1st Viscount GoderichBingham Baring, 2nd Baron AshburtonLaurence Dudley Stamp
















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