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