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Mountains in History - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 91 times
- The average score is 11 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Mountain | % Correct |
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| Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to climb its peak | Mount Everest | 97%
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| People in ancient Greece believed that their gods and goddesses lived on this mountain | Mount Olympus | 96%
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| Volcano that destroyed Pompeii | Mount Vesuvius | 92%
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| Hokusai painted this mountain in his epic work "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" | Mount Fuji | 86%
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| The 1883 eruption of this volcano could be heard over 3000 miles away | Krakatoa | 85%
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| Was officially renamed in 2015 from "Mount McKinley" to ... | Denali | 77%
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| Volcano in Washington state that erupted in 1980 | Mount St. Helens | 72%
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| Where Moses received the Ten Commandments according to the Bible | Mount Sinai | 71%
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| 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 | 68%
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| A self-proclaimed Kurdish state existed around this mountain in Turkey between 1927–1931 | Mount Ararat | 61%
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| The U.S. built several telescope observatories in 1956 at the summit of this mountain considered holy to the Hawaiian religion | Mauna Kea | 56%
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| Home to the fourth-oldest national park in the U.S., established in 1899 | Mount Rainier | 37%
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| The highest recorded windspeed took place on top of this mountain in 1934(excluding tornadoes or tropical cyclones) | MountWashington | 35%
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| The 1936 Winter Olympics was hosted in a German town near this mountain,that is Germany's tallest | Zugspitze | 30%
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| 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 | 28%
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| Volcano that erupted in 1991, it was the biggest eruption in 108 years | Mount Pinatubo | 24%
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| The eruption of this Indonesian volcano in 1815 caused the "Year Without a Summer" | Mount Tambora | 18%
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| Until 1852, this mountain (that is India's highest) was thought to be the world's tallest | Kangchenjunga | 15%
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| In 1979, an Air New Zealand flight flew into this volcano in Antarctica, killing 257 people | Mount Erebus | 13%
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| The 2010 eruption of this Icelandic volcano disrupted most of the European flights | Eyjafjallajökull | 10%
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