| Question | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Country that makes up Everest's north side | China | 100%
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| Name of the mountain range that Everest is a part of | Himalaya | 100%
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| Country that makes up Everest's south side | Nepal | 97%
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| Ethnic group of the above that lives near Mount Everest and often work as climbing guides | Sherpa | 90%
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| Region of the above where you can find Mount Everest | Tibet | 90%
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| Climber who was knighted for being one of the first to successfully climb Mount Everest | Edmund Hillary | 83%
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| Mount Everest is located on a convergence plate, which means it is actually getting... | taller | 79%
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| Partner of the above climber, who was the other first climber to summit Everest | Tenzing Norgay | 79%
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| Area above 8,000 m where humans cannot survive for extended periods of time due to low oxygen | Death Zone | 69%
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| Country of origin of the above climber | New Zealand | 66%
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| Glacier on the south side of Everest whose "Icefall" has killed many climbers | Khumbu | 55%
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| Fourth highest mountain in the world, located just south of Everest | Lhotse | 55%
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| Famous early Everest climber who said he wanted to climb it "because it's there" | George Mallory | 52%
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| Book by Jon Krakauer describing the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, in which eight climbers died in one blizzard | Into Thin Air | 45%
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| Mountain that is the tallest on Earth, when measured from base to summit | Mauna Kea | 34%
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| Partner of the above, whose missing body and camera might prove an earlier Everest ascent | Andrew Irvine | 31%
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| Famous Italian climber who made the first solo ascent of Everest | Reinhold Messner | 31%
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| Mountain that the furthest away from the Earth's core | Mount Chimborazo | 17%
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