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