Statistics for Mountains in History

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Hint	Mountain	% Correct
People in ancient Greece believed that their gods and goddesses lived on this mountain	Mount Olympus	98%
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to climb its peak	Mount Everest	95%
Volcano that destroyed Pompeii	Mount Vesuvius	91%
Hokusai painted this mountain in his epic work "The Great Wave off Kanagawa"	Mount Fuji	88%
The 1883 eruption of this volcano could be heard over 3000 miles away	Krakatoa	84%
Where Moses received the Ten Commandments according to the Bible	Mount Sinai	74%
Was officially renamed in 2015 from "Mount McKinley" to ...	Denali	70%
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	67%
Volcano in Washington state that erupted in 1980	Mount St. Helens	65%
A self-proclaimed Kurdish state existed around this mountain in Turkey between 1927–1931	Mount Ararat	63%
The U.S. built several telescope observatories in 1956 at the summit of this mountain considered holy to the Hawaiian religion	Mauna Kea	51%
The highest recorded windspeed took place on top of this mountain in 1934 (excluding tornadoes or tropical cyclones)	Mount Washington	35%
Home to the fourth-oldest national park in the U.S., established in 1899	Mount Rainier	33%
Volcano that erupted in 1991, it was the biggest eruption in 108 years	Mount Pinatubo	28%
The 1936 Winter Olympics was hosted in a German town near this mountain, that is Germany's tallest	Zugspitze	28%
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	26%
In 1979, an Air New Zealand flight flew into this volcano in Antarctica, killing 257 people	Mount Erebus	19%
The eruption of this Indonesian volcano in 1815 caused the "Year Without a Summer"	Mount Tambora	14%
The 2010 eruption of this Icelandic volcano disrupted most of the European flights	Eyjafjallajökull	12%
Until 1852, this mountain (that is India's highest) was thought to be the world's tallest	Kangchenjunga	12%

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