General Knowledge Trivia Quiz
General Knowledge
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The earliest known European settlement in the Americas is:
A) L’Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland
B) Machu Pichu, Peru
C) Navidad, Hispaniola (now Haiti)
D) Provincetown, Massachusetts
B) Machu Pichu, Peru
C) Navidad, Hispaniola (now Haiti)
D) Provincetown, Massachusetts
Your answer — C) Navidad, Hispaniola (now Haiti) — was incorrect.
Norse sagas record the discovery of Vinland, and its settlement by Leif Erikson in the 990s. Later settlers named the site L’Anse aux Meduse, which means Jellyfish Creek.