Daily Quiz for April 9, 2007

Henry Hudson sailed for the Dutch East India Company in search of the Northwest Passage–a water route linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans–when he sailed up the present-day Hudson River in 1609. In 1610, he sailed for the English, discovering the bay which is named after him. The Dutch East India Company lasted from 1602 until 1798, whereupon its possessions were dissolved into the Dutch empire.