{"id":33,"date":"2019-01-19T16:06:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T10:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/who-discovered-australia\/"},"modified":"2019-01-19T16:06:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T10:06:46","slug":"who-discovered-australia","status":"publish","type":"mcq","link":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/mcq\/who-discovered-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Who discovered Australia?"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","topic":[242,243],"subject":[9],"education_level":[],"class_list":["post-33","mcq","type-mcq","status-publish","hentry","topic-who-discovered-australia","topic-willem-janszoon","subject-general-knowledge"],"mcq_note":"<b>Willem Janszoon<\/b> sometimes abbreviated to <b>Willem Jansz <\/b>who was a\u00a0Dutch navigator and colonial governor. <strong>Janszoon<\/strong> served in the Netherlands East Indies in the periods 1603\u201311 and 1612\u201316 including as governor of Fort Henricus on the island of Solor. He is the first European known to have seen the coast of Australia during his voyage of 1605\u201306.\r\n\r\nIn 1600 a small Dutch\u00a0sailing ship named the Duyfken captained by <strong>Willem Janszoon<\/strong> set sail from Banten in Indonesia, in search of new trading opportunities. On 26 February 1606 they anchored off the Pennefather River in the Gulf of Carpentaria and went ashore. They found the land swampy and the people there unfriendly. The ship lost ten of its crew on various expeditions on shore. Janszoon named the place \"Nieu Zeland\" (New Zeland). <strong>Janszoon<\/strong> is credited with being the first European to set foot on Australian soil. <strong>Janszoon<\/strong> however didn't realise he have discovered Australia. He thought the land was part of the island of New Guinea which is further to the north.","mcq_options":[{"right":"no","answer":"Eric the Red"},{"right":"no","answer":"Leif Ericsson"},{"right":"yes","answer":"William Janszoon"},{"right":"no","answer":"None of these"}],"multi_answers":"no","subject_terms":[{"id":9,"title":"General Knowledge","slug":"general-knowledge"}],"topic_terms":[{"id":242,"title":"Who discovered Australia","slug":"who-discovered-australia"},{"id":243,"title":"Willem Janszoon","slug":"willem-janszoon"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mcq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mcq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/subject?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"education_level","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcqacademy.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/education_level?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}