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Mountains in History

Can you name these mountains based on an anecdote from their history?
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Last updated: January 11, 2024
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People in ancient Greece believed that their gods and goddesses lived on this mountain
Mount Olympus
The 1883 eruption of this volcano could be heard over 3000 miles away
Krakatoa
Hokusai painted this mountain in his epic work "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"
Mount Fuji
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to climb its peak
Mount Everest
Was officially renamed in 2015 from "Mount McKinley" to ...
Denali
Volcano that erupted in 1991, it was the biggest eruption in 108 years
Mount Pinatubo
Where Moses received the Ten Commandments according to the Bible
Mount Sinai
Volcano that destroyed Pompeii
Mount Vesuvius
The highest recorded windspeed took place on top of this mountain in 1934
(excluding tornadoes or tropical cyclones)
Mount
Washington
The U.S. built several telescope observatories in 1956 at the summit of this mountain
considered holy to the Hawaiian religion
Mauna Kea
In 1979, an Air New Zealand flight flew into this volcano in Antarctica, killing 257 people
Mount Erebus
Volcano in Washington state that erupted in 1980
Mount St. Helens
Doane Robinson, the idea man, originally wanted this mountain to feature the faces of
Lewis and Clark, Sacagawea, Red Cloud, Buffalo Bill Cody and Crazy Horse
Mount Rushmore
Until 1852, this mountain (that is India's highest) was thought to be the world's tallest
Kangchenjunga
A self-proclaimed Kurdish state existed around this mountain in Turkey between 1927–1931
Mount Ararat
The eruption of this Indonesian volcano in 1815 caused the "Year Without a Summer"
Mount Tambora
Home to the fourth-oldest national park in the U.S., established in 1899
Mount Rainier
The 1936 Winter Olympics was hosted in a German town near this mountain,
that is Germany's tallest
Zugspitze
The 2010 eruption of this Icelandic volcano disrupted most of the European flights
Eyjafjallajökull
Megan Ellison founded a film company in 2011 that has the name of
this Himalayan mountain, that is the first of the eight-thousanders to be climbed
Annapurna
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