Straight Up Trivia #3: Seven Summits

The 1996 climbing season of Mount Everest, in which 15 climbers died, was the basis of what bestseller by Jon Krakauer?

Aconcagua is in what mountain range, the longest continental mountain range in the world?

Denali has, at times, had an alternative name in honor of what U.S. president? The president never visited Alaska.

Early Europeans claimed that the name Kilimanjaro came from what language? The language is an official language in four countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda.

Mount Elbrus and the Caucasus Range were formed from the collision of the the Eurasian plate with what plate? This plate underlies most of the Middle East including its namesake peninsula.

Vinson Massif, the highest point of Antarctica, has large deposits of fossils of what extinct arthropod, named for its lengthwise parts: the axial in the center and the two pleural on either side.

Puncak Jaya may or may not be the highest point in Oceania, depending on whether you consider the island it is on as part of Oceania or Asia. What island is Puncak Jaya on?

Maybe you don't consider the Caucasus to be part of Europe. If so, what is the highest point in Europe? It is the tallest mountain in the Alps.

Maybe you don't think Puncak Jaya counts, and you would include Mount Kosciuszko in Australia as one of the seven summits. Kosciuszko was a Polish hero of many conflicts, including the American Revolution, in which he helped build the fort at what location in New York, now home to the U.S. Military (Army) Academy ?

At the other end of the elevation spectrum, the lowest point on earth is on the shores of what highly salinated lake?