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