K2 Mountain - Quiz
  • 1. What is the height of K2?
A) 8,611 meters
B) 8,848 meters
C) 7,918 meters
D) 8,027 meters
  • 2. Which mountain range is K2 a part of?
A) Alps
B) Karakoram Range
C) Andes
D) Himalayas
  • 3. Who was the first to reach the summit of K2?
A) Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli
B) Sir Edmund Hillary
C) Rob Hall
D) Reinhold Messner
  • 4. What is the nickname of K2?
A) The Peaceful Peak
B) The Savage Mountain
C) The Gentle Giant
D) The Humble Hill
  • 5. In which year was K2 first summited?
A) 1982
B) 1954
C) 1978
D) 1965
  • 6. K2 is commonly known as the _______ mountain.
A) Gentle
B) Peaceful
C) Humble
D) Savage
  • 7. Which of these cities is closest to K2?
A) Leh
B) Lhasa
C) Kathmandu
D) Skardu
  • 8. What is the second-highest mountain in the world after Mount Everest?
A) Lhotse
B) Kangchenjunga
C) K2
D) Makalu
  • 9. Which mountaineering season is optimal for climbing K2?
A) Autumn
B) Spring
C) Summer
D) Winter
  • 10. What is the death rate on K2 prior to 2021?
A) Two people died for every five who reached the summit
B) One person died for every ten who reached the summit
C) No deaths recorded
D) One person died for every four who reached the summit
  • 11. Who named K3 surfaces in mathematics partly after K2?
A) André Weil
B) Carl Friedrich Gauss
C) Leonhard Euler
D) Isaac Newton
  • 12. What local name has been suggested for K2, derived from Balti words?
A) Lamba Pahar
B) Chogori
C) Dapsang
D) Masherbrum
  • 13. Who was honored with the name Mount Godwin-Austen?
A) Ardito Desio
B) Reinhold Messner
C) George Bell
D) Henry Godwin-Austen
  • 14. What is the official Chinese name for K2?
A) Karakoram Peak
B) Qogir (乔戈里峰)
C) Himalaya Summit
D) Mount Everest
  • 15. What is another nickname for K2?
A) The Friendly Peak
B) The Gentle Giant
C) The Easy Climb
D) The King of Mountains
  • 16. Which Italian climber popularized the phrase 'The Mountain of Mountains'?
A) Reinhold Messner
B) Lino Lacedelli
C) Fosco Maraini
D) Achille Compagnoni
  • 17. In which region is K2 located within Pakistan?
A) Sindh
B) Gilgit–Baltistan
C) Punjab
D) Kashmir
  • 18. Which autonomous county in China shares the location of K2 with Pakistan?
A) Tibet Autonomous Region
B) Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County
C) Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
D) Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
  • 19. What lies to the north of K2?
A) The Indus River
B) The Tarim sedimentary basin
C) The Karakoram Range
D) The Himalayas
  • 20. Which mountain range is south of the Karakoram Range?
A) The Pamirs
B) The Tibetan Plateau
C) The Lesser Himalayas
D) The Hindu Kush
  • 21. What natural feature contributes significantly to agriculture in valleys near K2?
A) Desert oases
B) Melt waters from glaciers
C) Rainfall
D) River deltas
  • 22. K2 is ranked 22nd by which measure?
A) Topographic prominence
B) Elevation
C) Longitude
D) Latitude
  • 23. Which mountain range includes K2, along with the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayas?
A) The Andes
B) The Karakoram Range
C) The Alps
D) The Rockies
  • 24. Which side of K2 is the steepest?
A) The west side
B) The south side
C) The north side
D) The east side
  • 25. How much does the north side of K2 rise above the Qogir Glacier?
A) Over 3,200 metres (10,500 ft)
B) Over 4,000 metres (13,123 ft)
C) Over 2,000 metres (6,562 ft)
D) Over 1,500 metres (4,921 ft)
  • 26. When was a corrected measurement of K2 made after the 1986 expedition?
A) In 1987
B) In 1990
C) In 1985
D) In 1988
  • 27. In which year was the height of K2 accurately measured using satellite navigation?
A) 2000
B) 1965
C) 1980
D) 2014
  • 28. What intrudes the orthogneisses near the memorial on K2?
A) Garnet-mica leucogranitic dikes
B) Sandstone and shale
C) Limestone and slates
D) Clinopyroxene-porphyritic vogesites
  • 29. What sequence is interbanded within the orthogneisses near K2's memorial?
A) Gilkey-Puchoz sequence
B) Broad Peak sequence
C) Skyang Kangri sequence
D) Karakoram Metamorphic Complex
  • 30. What type of dikes intrude the K2 gneiss on the west face of Broad Peak and south spur of K2?
A) Clinopyroxene-porphyritic vogesites
B) Lamprophyre dikes
C) Garnet-mica leucogranitic dikes
D) Leucogranite dikes
  • 31. What separates the K2 gneiss from surrounding sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks?
A) Synclines
B) Folds
C) Anticlines
D) Normal faults
  • 32. What geological period did the K2 Gneiss undergo metamorphism and deformation during the initial collision of Asia and Indian plates?
A) Cretaceous Period
B) Jurassic Period
C) Eocene Period
D) Miocene Period
  • 33. What is the estimated age range of the K2 Gneiss based on 40Ar/39Ar ages?
A) 115 to 120 million years ago
B) 300 to 350 million years ago
C) 50 to 60 million years ago
D) 200 to 250 million years ago
  • 34. During which geological period was the K2 Gneiss intruded by leucogranite dikes?
A) Post-Miocene time
B) Eocene Period
C) Cretaceous Period
D) Jurassic Period
  • 35. What geological feature contributed to the exposure of the K2 Gneiss?
A) Major breakback thrust faults
B) Wind erosion
C) River valleys
D) Glacial erosion
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