Huge List of Famous Mountains

Can you guess the names of these 50 notable mountains?

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Hint	Elevation	Answer
Highest mountain in the world	8848	Mount Everest
Second highest in the world	8611	K2
Third highest in the world, thought to be the highest until the Great Trigonometrical Survey of the 1800s	8586	Kangchenjunga
Fourth highest in the world	8516	Lhotse
The first of the eight-thousanders to be climbed. Nevertheless, one climber has died for every three who reach the summit.	8091	Annapurna
Highest in South America	6961	Aconcagua
Highest volcano on Earth	6893	Ojos del Salado
Mountain whose summit is the furthest from the center of the Earth (hint: located in Ecuador)	6268	Chimborazo
Highest in North America	6190	Mount McKinley
Highest in Canada	5959	Mount Logan
Highest in Africa	5895	Mount Kilimanjaro
Highest in Europe	5642	Mount Elbrus
Highest in Mexico	5636	Pico de Orizaba
Second highest mountain in Africa, namesake of a country	5199	Mount Kenya
Turkish volcano theorized to be the landing place of Noah's ark	5137	Mount Ararat
Highest in the D.R. Congo and Uganda, named for a famous explorer	5109	Mount Stanley
Highest in Antarctica	4892	Vinson Massif
Highest in the Alps	4809	Mont Blanc
Pointy peak in the Swiss Alps which is featured on Toblerone packaging	4478	Matterhorn
Highest in the U.S. outside of Alaska	4421	Mount Whitney
Highest in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest	4392	Mount Rainier
Located in Hawaii, it's the "tallest" mountain on Earth when measured from its base on the sea floor	4207	Mauna Kea
Also located in Hawaii, it's the world's largest mountain by volume	4169	Mauna Loa
Volcano near the Gulf of Guinea which shares its name with a country	4040	Mount Cameroon
The most active volcano in Antarctica	3794	Mount Erebus
Highest mountain in Japan	3776	Mount Fuji
Highest in New Zealand	3724	Aoraki / Mount Cook
Highest in the Canary Islands	3718	Teide
Very active volcano in Sicily	3326	Mount Etna
Highest in Germany	2962	Zugspitze
Home of the Greek Gods	2918	Mount Olympus
Indonesian volcano whose eruption in 1815 caused the "Year Without a Summer"	2850	Mount Tambora
Volcano in Washington state that erupted in 1980	2549	Mount Saint Helens
Highest in the Azores	2351	Mount Pico
Egyptian mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments	2285	Mount Sinai
Highest in mainland Australia, named for a Polish person	2228	Mount Kosciuszko
Mountain near Vancouver which hosted parts of the 2010 Winter Olympics	2181	Whistler Mountain
Mountain in Greece home to a monastic community where women aren't allowed	2033	Mount Athos
The highest mountain in New Hampshire, it once held the record for the highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth	1917	Mount Washington
Mountain with four U.S. Presidents carved into its face	1745	Mount Rushmore
Mountain on Baffin Island which has the world's tallest vertical drop and is named for a Norse god	1675	Mount Thor
Philippines volcano that erupted in 1991, briefly lowering global temperatures	1486	Mount Pinatubo
Highest in Great Britain	1345	Ben Nevis
Volcano that destroyed Pompeii	1281	Mount Vesuvius
Flat-topped mountain overlooking Cape Town	1085	Table Mountain
Volcano on a small island just north of Sicily, nicknamed "The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean"	924	Stromboli
Indonesian volcano which erupted in 1883, creating a sound heard over 5000 kilometers away	813	Krakatoa
Highest peak in Antigua. Temporarily renamed for a U.S. President in 2009.	402	Boggy Peak / Mount Obama
Rounded peak located in Rio de Janeiro's harbor	396	Sugarloaf Mountain
The city of Montreal takes its name from this "mountain" – more of a hill, really	233	Mount Royal

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87 Comments

+11

Level 77

Dec 19, 2018

Brilliant idea for a quiz. Please accept 'Cook' for Mount Cook - thanks.

Level ∞

Dec 19, 2018

Fixed

Level 75

Dec 19, 2018

Annapurna? It's one of the higher ones that I can actually spell and remember.

Level 75

Feb 21, 2019

It's well known for being the first 8000er having been climbed and the deadliest one (32% of ascents)

Level ∞

Mar 14, 2022

Added!

Level 72

Apr 19, 2022

I was expecting Stromboli too :)

Level 82

Dec 19, 2018

Surprised so few people knew Tambora - arguably a far more significant eruption than Krakatoa.

Level 90

Dec 19, 2018

Well, I think that's because they made the movie "Krakatoa, East of Java" (even though it's west of Java) but no film about Tambora.

Level 82

Dec 19, 2018

Huh, I've never heard of that film.

Level 68

Feb 3, 2021

Me neither, but I remembered Krakatoa and not Tambora. It's probably because of the sound record it produced.

Level 66

Apr 19, 2022

My guess is it's because of that Spongebob episode where Squidward gets volcano powers and yells "Krakatoa!" when he uses them

Level 86

May 14, 2020

better represented in recorded history

Level 82

Mar 14, 2022

The 'Year without a Summer' is pretty famous - it's well-known for indirectly being the reason Frankenstein was written.

Level 57

Dec 19, 2018

No Sugarloaf? No Olympus Mons?

Space Mountain? Mount Doom. Lonely Mountain

+12

Level 77

Dec 19, 2018

No Fuji?

Level ∞

Mar 14, 2022

Added Fuji and Sugarloaf!

Level 99

Dec 19, 2018

Or Whistler?

Level 79

Feb 21, 2019

I was shocked to not see Fuji

Level 66

Feb 21, 2019

Ditto

Level 86

May 14, 2020

I added all of these now in my Really huge list of famous mountains

Level ∞

Mar 14, 2022

Nice quiz! I used the stats from your quiz to add 7 more mountains to our list.

Level 86

Mar 14, 2022

Thanks!

+19

Level 77

Dec 19, 2018

How about that mountain my partner made of a molehill? Geez, forget to pick someone up at the airport ONE time.....

Level 86

Dec 19, 2018

With a title like that I expected at least 100 mountains

Level 73

Dec 19, 2018

Please be more generous with the spellings of Kangchenjunga. The Wikipedia article begins "Kangchenjunga, also spelled Kanchenjunga, is the third highest mountain in the world," yet when I tried Kanchenjunga, it did not work.

Level ∞

Dec 19, 2018

All we require is Kang + one or more letters + Ga

+16

Level 94

Dec 19, 2018

In other words, I could spell it "Kangandafallaalkndalakdnadga" and that counts, but "Kanchenjunga" (a correct spelling) doesn't? That seems a bit off.

Level 76

Dec 19, 2018

But ^KANG[A-Z]+JA still misses out Kanchenjunga!

Level ∞

Dec 20, 2018

Kanchenjunga will work now

Level 88

Dec 19, 2018

I don't think it's fair that Elbrus and Erebus have such similar names. Someone ought to do something about that.

Level 72

Dec 24, 2018

I'm on it!

Just need to find a big enough eraser.

Level 69

Dec 20, 2018

Wow, I expected the penultimate one to be much higher. Also, can you accept "Kibo" for Kilimanjaro?

Level 86

Dec 20, 2018

It is, QM was looking at the wrong number apparently. 332 m is the prominence, but Jebel Musa is actually 2,285 m high

Level ∞

Dec 21, 2018

Fixed, thanks.

Level 86

Dec 21, 2018

Here we go, 101 mountains:

Really Huge List of Famous Mountains

Level 59

Feb 21, 2019

Please accept Kanchanjunga or at least Kanchenjunga because that's what we call it in India

Level 85

Feb 21, 2019

Today I learned that I am woefully pathetic in regards to mountain/volcano-based trivia.

Level 72

Feb 21, 2019

Great list. A lot that I knew, but a few I hadn't heard of (Mount Thor is awesome). I would have added Mount Fuji, Vinson Massif, and Mount Mitchell (highest U.S. peak east of the Mississippi--though I'm biased, being originally from North Carolina).

Level 73

Apr 19, 2022

Yes I thought both Vinson and Mitchell were missing. Then again I am also a North Carolinian, but I still feel it is a significant enough peak to add to the list. Mount Washington, a smaller Appalachian peak, also appears, so I feel that it is justified as the largest in a major region.

Level 63

Feb 21, 2019

Can someone explain how Chimborazo is the farthest from the center of the Earth when it's not the highest peak on Earth? Does it have to do with the thickness of plate tectonics? I am curious to know.

Level 79

Feb 21, 2019

No it has to do with the fact that the Earth is not a perfect sphere. Chimborazo is in Ecuador sitting almost exactly on the equator.

Level 80

Apr 19, 2022

To be specific, the Earth's spin makes it bulge a little at the equator, like how spinning pizza dough makes it flatten out. The Earth's radius at the equator is about 3963 miles (6378 km), while the radius at the poles is about 3950 miles (6357 km). This means that something at sea level on the equator is about 13 miles (21 km) further away from the center of the Earth than something at sea level at the poles.

Of course, the difference is less drastic the further away you are from the poles, but with Everest being about 5.5 (8.8 km) miles above sea level, the addition of even a couple more miles from the Earth's center makes a big difference. In fact, Mount Everest is the tenth furthest point from the Earth's center, beaten by Chimborazo by about 1.3 miles (2.1 km), even though Everest is about 1.6 miles (2.6 km) higher above sea level.

Level 69

Feb 21, 2019

100% Know the tallest mountain in the world. 96% know the second tallest mountain. 16% know the third tallest mountain. We really only like winners.

Level 80

Nov 29, 2025

"K2" is also pretty easy to remember.

Level 67

Feb 21, 2019

Nice quiz, I think "El teide" should be accepted for "teide".

Level 84

Feb 21, 2019

This is a longshot, but could "Mount Doom" be accepted for NZ?

Level 86

May 14, 2020

Mount Doom is not the highest.

Level 65

Jun 19, 2019

Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa clues look like "hey i'm the world's best at this made-up stat!" to me.

Gotta be the something-est!

Level 86

May 14, 2020

Mauna Kea not really. It's a valid measure to start from the bottom.

Level 81

Mar 15, 2022

Disagree, Mt Everest would be even taller than listed here if you started counting somewere in the depths of the Indian Ocean. Which would just be silly.

Level 61

Apr 19, 2022

Yes, I agree, I've never understood the rationale for Mauna Kea

Level 80

Apr 19, 2022

It's two different ways of measuring height: distance above sea level, and distance above the surrounding land. Think about it this way: Everest (and the rest of the Himalayas) were created by the collision of the Indian tectonic plate and the Eurasian plate, so they started growing from land at or above sea level. Mauna Kea, on the other hand, grew as a volcano from the ocean floor, so it had to do a lot more growing to get to its height.

Level 67

Feb 1, 2026

Thanks for the explanation :)

Level 73

Jan 2, 2023

How about Mason Mount in England?

Level 77

Aug 20, 2019

Great Quiz, Thanks

Level 76

Mar 31, 2020

got 20 and for me that is not bad. Really not my subject. But there were 2 more I could/should have gotten, matterhorn and erebus. I only now realize elbrus and erebus are not the same thing!! I just always thought I was bad at spelling/remembering. I hadnt even heard of them before this site (so a year max) btw.

Missed the bottom 12 (besides temple mount, got that one), and Loa, Aconcagua Saint Helens and well, Matterhorn

Level 70

Jun 1, 2020

Please accept "Six Grandfathers" for Mount Rushmore.

Level 87

Jun 7, 2020

You may consider accepting "Citlaltépetl" as an alternate answer for Pico de Orizaba, as it is a commonly seen native name for the mountain.

Level 96

Mar 15, 2022

Also may be better to have Mt Pico before that one or take it out to avoid the freebie

Level 75

Jan 26, 2021

No Eyjafjallajökull?

Level 69

Nov 23, 2021

Can you accept Aorangi for Mount Cook? Aoraki is what it is called in the southern dialects of Maori

Level 99

Mar 14, 2022

in last second...0:01

Level 94

Mar 15, 2022

Please can you add 'Pao de Acucar' for Sugarloaf Mountain - that is the local name

Level 72

Apr 19, 2022

Agreed, you should accept Pão de Açúcar as a valid answer

Level 69

Mar 15, 2022

You should accept Cervino (Italian) or Cervin (French) for Matterhorn (German).

Level 66

Apr 19, 2022

Amazing quiz! I had a lot of fun with it

Level 97

Apr 19, 2022

You should add the Big Rock Candy Mountain

Level 71

Apr 19, 2022

Didn't realize the hill in Rio was called Sugarloaf Mountain. Whenever I hear Sugarloaf Mountain, I think of the one in Florida. Admittedly though, the Florida one isn't really a mountain.

Level 73

Apr 19, 2022

Could add Puncak Jaya and Vinson Massif

Level 23

Apr 20, 2022

You cold add Rysy Mountain on Polish-Slovakian border, which is 2 501 meters (1 mile 975 yards)

Level 23

Apr 20, 2022

Also you could add Giewont in Poland

Level 69

Mar 23, 2023

Somebody should make a quiz on 'Highest Fountains', I would defiantly take it.

Level 77

Feb 20, 2024

Please accept Citlaltepetl for P. d. Orizaba

Level 65

Mar 24, 2024

I think you should've added Mount Vinson Massif. It's the tallest one in Antarctica at 16,050 feet.

Level 63

Jul 30, 2025

seconded

Level 71

Jun 7, 2025

could you accept « Mont Royal » for Mount Royal please?

Level 76

Nov 29, 2025

I always thought that Aconcagua was a volcano so I was a bit surprised that it wasn't the answer to the "Highest volcano on Earth" question.

Level 77

Nov 29, 2025

Please accept Citlaltepetl

Level 87

Nov 29, 2025

Maybe also accept “Kachenyunga”?

Level 79

Nov 30, 2025

8 American mountains but none in Colorado is crazy

Level 71

Dec 24, 2025

Well, the oldest comment making this request is from 2020, so I assume it's pointless, but I'd like to join the ranks of the people requesting Citlaltepetl to be added as a type-in for Pico de Orizaba.

Level 79

Dec 24, 2025

Pico de Orizaba gives a away Mount Pico. Maybe switch Mount Pico to Puncak Jaya?

Level 44

Dec 24, 2025

what about Mt Othrys

Level 63

Dec 24, 2025

How about Nanga Parbat? It is the fastest growing mountain on earth.

Level 21

Dec 25, 2025

Maybe also "Vesuv" could be accepted?

Level 67

Feb 1, 2026

I’m a big fan of this quiz, QM :)

Also, RIP Denali

Level 68

Apr 1, 2026

Quizzes don't use "Gulf of America" though, do they? Why this change?

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