Q: What did Columbus discover?
A: He discovered America!
Q: Wrong. The Indians beat him to it at least 20 to 30 thousand years ago.
A: He is the first European to discover America!
Q: Wrong. That would be the Vikings sometime in the eleventh century.
A: He is the first modern European to set foot on the North American continent.
Q: Wrong. That would be Englishman, John Cabot. In fact, he only made it as far as the Caribbean.
A: Well, he was the first European to see North America.
Q: Wrong. That would be Amerigo Vespucci.
A: Well. He died having discovered a New World.
Q: Wrong. Columbus died thinking that he had made it to China.
A: ............
Q: Class dismissed.



















