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