Question | Answer | % Correct |
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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 | 100%
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Region of the above where you can find Mount Everest | Tibet | 92%
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Climber who was knighted for being one of the first to successfully climb Mount Everest | Edmund Hillary | 75%
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Ethnic group of the above that lives near Mount Everest and often work as climbing guides | Sherpa | 75%
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Partner of the above climber, who was the other first climber to summit Everest | Tenzing Norgay | 75%
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Mount Everest is located on a convergence plate, which means it is actually getting... | taller | 67%
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Area above 8,000 m where humans cannot survive for extended periods of time due to low oxygen | Death Zone | 50%
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Glacier on the south side of Everest whose "Icefall" has killed many climbers | Khumbu | 50%
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Fourth highest mountain in the world, located just south of Everest | Lhotse | 50%
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Country of origin of the above climber | New Zealand | 50%
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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 | 42%
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Famous early Everest climber who said he wanted to climb it "because it's there" | George Mallory | 33%
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Mountain that is the tallest on Earth, when measured from base to summit | Mauna Kea | 33%
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Famous Italian climber who made the first solo ascent of Everest | Reinhold Messner | 33%
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Partner of the above, whose missing body and camera might prove an earlier Everest ascent | Andrew Irvine | 25%
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Mountain that the furthest away from the Earth's core | Mount Chimborazo | 25%
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