By Mark Memmott
As the Associated Press writes, a "darker side" of Christopher Columbus and the effect of his voyages to what became known as the New World has emerged in recent years in U.S. classrooms.
On this Columbus Day, we've got a quick quiz about the man and his voyages to what he thought was the other side of the world. See how much you remember from elementary school (answers courtesy of the BBC's "historic figures" webpages):
Correction at 11:40 a.m. ET: A reader with sharper eyes than ours points out we made a mistake in question five. We've corrected the question in the quiz and apologize to those who knew better.
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