Huge List of Famous Mountains - Statistics

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