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Huge List of Famous Mountains - Statistics
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Answer Stats
| Hint | Elevation | Answer | % Correct |
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| Highest mountain in the world | 8848 | Mount Everest | 100%
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| Second highest in the world | 8611 | K2 | 94%
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| Highest in Africa | 5895 | Mount Kilimanjaro | 88%
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| Highest mountain in Japan | 3776 | Mount Fuji | 78%
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| Highest in North America | 6190 | Mount McKinley | 76%
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| Highest in the Alps | 4809 | Mont Blanc | 74%
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| Home of the Greek Gods | 2918 | Mount Olympus | 72%
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| Volcano that destroyed Pompeii | 1281 | Mount Vesuvius | 71%
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| Very active volcano in Sicily | 3326 | Mount Etna | 69%
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| Mountain with four U.S. Presidents carved into its face | 1745 | Mount Rushmore | 67%
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| Pointy peak in the Swiss Alps which is featured on Toblerone packaging | 4478 | Matterhorn | 65%
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| Indonesian volcano which erupted in 1883, creating a sound heard over 5000 kilometers away | 813 | Krakatoa | 60%
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| Second highest mountain in Africa, namesake of a country | 5199 | Mount Kenya | 59%
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| Turkish volcano theorized to be the landing place of Noah's ark | 5137 | Mount Ararat | 56%
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| Highest in Europe | 5642 | Mount Elbrus | 55%
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| Located in Hawaii, it's the "tallest" mountain on Earth when measured from its base on the sea floor | 4207 | Mauna Kea | 52%
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| Volcano in Washington state that erupted in 1980 | 2549 | Mount Saint Helens | 51%
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| Highest in Great Britain | 1345 | Ben Nevis | 48%
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| Flat-topped mountain overlooking Cape Town | 1085 | Table Mountain | 48%
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| Egyptian mountain where Moses received the Ten Commandments | 2285 | Mount Sinai | 47%
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| Highest in South America | 6961 | Aconcagua | 46%
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| Mountain on Baffin Island which has the world's tallest vertical drop and is named for a Norse god | 1675 | Mount Thor | 46%
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| Highest in New Zealand | 3724 | Aoraki / Mount Cook | 43%
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| Highest peak in Antigua. Temporarily renamed for a U.S. President in 2009. | 402 | Boggy Peak / Mount Obama | 41%
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| Also located in Hawaii, it's the world's largest mountain by volume | 4169 | Mauna Loa | 41%
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| Highest in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest | 4392 | Mount Rainier | 41%
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| The first of the eight-thousanders to be climbed. Nevertheless, one climber has died for every three who reach the summit. | 8091 | Annapurna | 34%
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| Volcano near the Gulf of Guinea which shares its name with a country | 4040 | Mount Cameroon | 33%
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| Rounded peak located in Rio de Janeiro's harbor | 396 | Sugarloaf Mountain | 33%
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| The city of Montreal takes its name from this "mountain" – more of a hill, really | 233 | Mount Royal | 30%
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| The highest mountain in New Hampshire, it once held the record for the highest wind speed ever recorded on Earth | 1917 | Mount Washington | 28%
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| Highest in the U.S. outside of Alaska | 4421 | Mount Whitney | 27%
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| Highest in Canada | 5959 | Mount Logan | 25%
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| Highest in the D.R. Congo and Uganda, named for a famous explorer | 5109 | Mount Stanley | 25%
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| Mountain whose summit is the furthest from the center of the Earth (hint: located in Ecuador) | 6268 | Chimborazo | 24%
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| Highest in Germany | 2962 | Zugspitze | 24%
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| Highest in mainland Australia, named for a Polish person | 2228 | Mount Kosciuszko | 23%
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| Philippines volcano that erupted in 1991, briefly lowering global temperatures | 1486 | Mount Pinatubo | 22%
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| Third highest in the world, thought to be the highest until the Great Trigonometrical Survey of the 1800s | 8586 | Kangchenjunga | 21%
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| Highest in the Canary Islands | 3718 | Teide | 19%
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| Fourth highest in the world | 8516 | Lhotse | 17%
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| Volcano on a small island just north of Sicily, nicknamed "The Lighthouse of the Mediterranean" | 924 | Stromboli | 17%
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| Highest in Antarctica | 4892 | Vinson Massif | 17%
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| Mountain near Vancouver which hosted parts of the 2010 Winter Olympics | 2181 | Whistler Mountain | 17%
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| Mountain in Greece home to a monastic community where women aren't allowed | 2033 | Mount Athos | 15%
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| Indonesian volcano whose eruption in 1815 caused the "Year Without a Summer" | 2850 | Mount Tambora | 15%
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| The most active volcano in Antarctica | 3794 | Mount Erebus | 14%
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| Highest in the Azores | 2351 | Mount Pico | 11%
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| Highest in Mexico | 5636 | Pico de Orizaba | 10%
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| Highest volcano on Earth | 6893 | Ojos del Salado | 8%
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