Famous Mountains - Statistics

General Stats

Answer Stats

Clue	Mountain	% Correct
Mountain first climbed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay	Mount Everest	96%
Second highest mountain in the world; in Pakistan	K2	92%
Highest mountain in Africa	Mount Kilimanjaro	86%
Volcano that destroyed the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum	Vesuvius	82%
Mountain in France and Italy; highest in Europe (not counting Russia)	Mont Blanc	80%
Most iconic Swiss mountain	The Matterhorn	80%
Home of the Greek gods	Mount Olympus	78%
New Zealand mountain named after an explorer	Mount Cook	76%
American volcano that erupted in 1980	Mount Saint Helens	76%
Highest mountain in Europe (counting Russia)	Mount Elbrus	72%
Volcano portrayed in Hokusai's Under the Wave off Kanagawa	Mount Fuji	64%
Washingtonian mountain with a namesake national park	Mount Rainier	46%
Highest mountain in Mordor	Mount Doom	40%
New Hampshire mountain known for high winds	Mount Washington	39%
World's third highest mountain; in India	Kanchenjunga	30%
Māori name for the above	Aoraki	29%
Active volcano 43 miles southeast of Mexico City	Popocatépetl	19%
Hawaiian volcano; continuously spewing lava since 1983	Kilauea	16%
Mountain in Maine; start (or end) of the Appalachian Trail	Mount Katahdin	12%
Icelandic volcano that erupted in 2010	Eyjafjallajokull	11%
Feline mountain overlooking the city of Cape Town	Lion's Head	9%