Mont Blanc - Quiz
A) A type of pen B) A popular brand of winter clothing C) A famous French dessert D) The highest mountain in the Alps
A) 2000 B) 1600 C) 1786 D) 1900
A) Albert Camus B) Gustave Flaubert C) Franz Kafka D) Victor Hugo
A) 50,000 B) 10,000 C) 20,000 D) 5,000
A) Polar Bear B) Kangaroo C) Tiger D) Ibex
A) Skiing B) Mountaineering C) Surfing D) Hiking
A) Meribel B) Chamonix C) Val d'Isere D) Courchevel
A) Beautiful Summit B) White Mountain C) Snowy Peak D) Great Peak
A) Jon Krakauer B) Maurice Herzog C) Heinrich Harrer D) Edmund Hillary
A) 6,000 meters B) 5,000 meters C) 4,807.3 meters D) 4,500 meters
A) Switzerland and France B) Austria and France C) France and Italy D) Italy and Switzerland
A) Mount Logan B) Kilimanjaro C) Denali D) Mont Blanc
A) The Alps massif B) The Andes massif C) The Caucasus massif D) The Mont Blanc massif
A) Courmayeur and Chamonix B) Aosta Valley and Courmayeur C) Montjoie and Arve D) Ferret and Veny
A) The Aiguille du Midi Route B) The Italian Route C) The Goûter Route D) The Courmayeur Route
A) 20 kilometers B) 15 kilometers C) 11.6 kilometers D) 8 kilometers
A) The Variscan mountain-forming event of the late Palaeozoic period B) The Cretaceous period C) The Alpine orogeny D) The Jurassic period
A) Granite B) Basalt C) Limestone D) Sandstone
A) Geneva B) Chamonix C) Courmayeur D) Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
A) Mountains and Minerals B) Statistique minéralogique des environs du Mt-Blanc C) Mineralogy of the Alps D) Geology of Mont Blanc
A) At least 68 separate mineral species B) 50 mineral species C) 90 mineral types D) 100 mineral types
A) North-westerly B) East-north-east C) South-easterly D) West-south-west
A) The later Alpine orogeny B) The Variscan mountain-forming event C) The Jurassic period D) The Cretaceous period
A) Volcanic activity B) Glaciation C) Earthquakes D) Wind erosion
A) Dfc B) Af C) Cfb D) BWh
A) Temperatures rise as altitude increases. B) Temperatures remain constant with changes in altitude. C) Altitude has no effect on temperature. D) Temperatures drop as altitude increases.
A) Chamonix B) Contamines-Montjoie C) Courmayeur D) Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
A) Mont Blanc du Tacul Path B) La Traversée C) Voie Royale D) Grands Mulets Route
A) Pierre-André Gobet B) Henri Giraud C) Marco Evaristti D) Stéphane Brosse
A) Dorothy Thompson B) Emelie Forsberg C) Hillary Gerardi D) Henriette d'Angeville
A) Statut de territoire contesté (disputed territory) B) Fully within France C) Fully within Italy D) Shared equally between France and Italy
A) Only the summit B) None C) A considerable proportion D) Less than 10%
A) Around 1,020 mm B) Less than 500 mm C) Around 1,100 mm D) Around 3,100 mm
A) Glacial movements B) Heavy snowfall C) Very high rockfall danger D) Blocked by crevasse fields
A) Approximately 65 hectares (160 acres) B) 100 hectares C) 10 hectares (25 acres) D) 50 hectares
A) Completed an ascent in under 5 hours B) Landed paragliders C) Set up a hot tub D) Draped the peak with fabric
A) Marco Evaristti B) Kilian Jornet C) Stéphane Brosse D) Pierre-André Gobet
A) An American airliner B) A Swiss airplane C) Air India Flight 101 D) Air India Flight 245
A) Fifty B) Seven C) Twenty D) Four
A) He required a rock foundation less than twelve metres below the ice. B) Permission from the Swiss government. C) Access to electricity and water supply. D) A tunnel through the mountain.
A) Goûter Hut B) Durier cabin C) Cosmiques Hut D) Conscrits Hut
A) European Union B) Swiss Federal Office of Topography C) NATO D) United Nations
A) Captain JJ Mieulet B) Jean-Laurent Jordaney C) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure D) Pierre Martel
A) Every five years B) Every three years C) Every two years D) Annually
A) 1890 B) 1891 C) 1906 D) 1893
A) Marie Paradis B) Pierre Martel C) Jacques Balmat D) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure
A) Eleven B) Seventeen C) None D) Ten
A) Patrick Sweeney B) Jean-Luc Prévost C) An unknown Austrian climber D) A Hungarian father
A) Technically easy yet arduous B) Extremely difficult C) Moderately challenging D) Very easy
A) It mirrors lowland climates exactly. B) It can create its own weather patterns. C) It is unaffected by altitude. D) It has no unique features.
A) Gonella refuge B) Goûter Hut C) Cosmiques Hut D) Durier cabin
A) Durier cabin B) Cosmiques Hut C) Goûter Hut D) Gonella refuge
A) 2002 B) 2003 C) 2005 D) 2013
A) Mechanical failure during flight. B) Severe weather conditions. C) Pilot error unrelated to descent. D) The pilots miscalculated their descent while approaching Geneva Airport.
A) 50 m (160 ft) north B) 40 m (130 ft) west C) 30 m (100 ft) east D) 20 m (65 ft) south
A) -40 °C (-40 °F) in 1946. B) -43 °C (-45 °F) during January 1893. C) -50 °C (-58 °F) in 1965. D) -30 °C (-22 °F) in 1999.
A) Seventeen B) Fifteen C) Ten D) Fourteen
A) 1723 B) After the Napoleonic Wars (1815) C) 1796 D) 1860
A) Dorothy Thompson B) Hillary Gerardi C) Henriette d'Angeville D) Emelie Forsberg
A) Previously unobserved glacial movements B) Heavy snowfall C) Temperature rise D) Rockfall danger
A) The foundation was not solid. B) A snowstorm damaged its structure. C) Levers attached to the ice started failing by 1906. D) An earthquake shook the region.
A) Horace-Bénédict de Saussure B) Victor Amadeus II C) Napoleon III D) Charlemagne
A) Jacques Balmat B) Michel Paccard C) Pierre Martel D) Jean-Laurent Jordaney
A) 500 mm B) 3,100 mm C) 1,020 mm D) Around 1,100 mm
A) A transport truck caught fire, killing 39 people. B) A flood submerged the tunnel. C) A structural collapse trapped vehicles. D) An avalanche blocked the tunnel.
A) Ten B) Twenty C) Fourteen D) Fifteen
A) Geologist John Smith B) Meteorologist Jane Doe C) Biologist Mark Taylor D) Glaciologist Luc Moreau |
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