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K2 Mountain - Quiz
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  • 1. What is the height of K2?
A) 8,848 meters
B) 8,611 meters
C) 8,027 meters
D) 7,918 meters
  • 2. Which mountain range is K2 a part of?
A) Alps
B) Karakoram Range
C) Andes
D) Himalayas
  • 3. Who was the first to reach the summit of K2?
A) Rob Hall
B) Reinhold Messner
C) Sir Edmund Hillary
D) Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli
  • 4. What is the nickname of K2?
A) The Humble Hill
B) The Savage Mountain
C) The Peaceful Peak
D) The Gentle Giant
  • 5. In which year was K2 first summited?
A) 1965
B) 1982
C) 1978
D) 1954
  • 6. K2 is commonly known as the _______ mountain.
A) Humble
B) Peaceful
C) Gentle
D) Savage
  • 7. Which of these cities is closest to K2?
A) Kathmandu
B) Leh
C) Skardu
D) Lhasa
  • 8. What is the second-highest mountain in the world after Mount Everest?
A) Makalu
B) K2
C) Lhotse
D) Kangchenjunga
  • 9. Which mountaineering season is optimal for climbing K2?
A) Autumn
B) Spring
C) Winter
D) Summer
  • 10. What is the death rate on K2 prior to 2021?
A) One person died for every four who reached the summit
B) Two people died for every five who reached the summit
C) No deaths recorded
D) One person died for every ten who reached the summit
  • 11. Who named K3 surfaces in mathematics partly after K2?
A) Isaac Newton
B) André Weil
C) Leonhard Euler
D) Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • 12. What local name has been suggested for K2, derived from Balti words?
A) Lamba Pahar
B) Chogori
C) Masherbrum
D) Dapsang
  • 13. Who was honored with the name Mount Godwin-Austen?
A) Reinhold Messner
B) Ardito Desio
C) George Bell
D) Henry Godwin-Austen
  • 14. What is the official Chinese name for K2?
A) Karakoram Peak
B) Himalaya Summit
C) Qogir (乔戈里峰)
D) Mount Everest
  • 15. What is the estimated age range of the K2 Gneiss based on 40Ar/39Ar ages?
A) 200 to 250 million years ago
B) 50 to 60 million years ago
C) 300 to 350 million years ago
D) 115 to 120 million years ago
  • 16. In which region is K2 located within Pakistan?
A) Sindh
B) Gilgit–Baltistan
C) Kashmir
D) Punjab
  • 17. K2 is ranked 22nd by which measure?
A) Topographic prominence
B) Longitude
C) Latitude
D) Elevation
  • 18. What sequence is interbanded within the orthogneisses near K2's memorial?
A) Karakoram Metamorphic Complex
B) Gilkey-Puchoz sequence
C) Skyang Kangri sequence
D) Broad Peak sequence
  • 19. What is another nickname for K2?
A) The Gentle Giant
B) The King of Mountains
C) The Easy Climb
D) The Friendly Peak
  • 20. During which geological period was the K2 Gneiss intruded by leucogranite dikes?
A) Post-Miocene time
B) Cretaceous Period
C) Jurassic Period
D) Eocene Period
  • 21. What separates the K2 gneiss from surrounding sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks?
A) Normal faults
B) Folds
C) Synclines
D) Anticlines
  • 22. What natural feature contributes significantly to agriculture in valleys near K2?
A) Rainfall
B) Desert oases
C) Melt waters from glaciers
D) River deltas
  • 23. What lies to the north of K2?
A) The Indus River
B) The Karakoram Range
C) The Himalayas
D) The Tarim sedimentary basin
  • 24. What intrudes the orthogneisses near the memorial on K2?
A) Limestone and slates
B) Clinopyroxene-porphyritic vogesites
C) Garnet-mica leucogranitic dikes
D) Sandstone and shale
  • 25. Which mountain range is south of the Karakoram Range?
A) The Tibetan Plateau
B) The Hindu Kush
C) The Pamirs
D) The Lesser Himalayas
  • 26. How much does the north side of K2 rise above the Qogir Glacier?
A) Over 2,000 metres (6,562 ft)
B) Over 1,500 metres (4,921 ft)
C) Over 3,200 metres (10,500 ft)
D) Over 4,000 metres (13,123 ft)
  • 27. What geological feature contributed to the exposure of the K2 Gneiss?
A) Major breakback thrust faults
B) Glacial erosion
C) Wind erosion
D) River valleys
  • 28. Which mountain range includes K2, along with the Tibetan Plateau and Himalayas?
A) The Alps
B) The Karakoram Range
C) The Rockies
D) The Andes
  • 29. What geological period did the K2 Gneiss undergo metamorphism and deformation during the initial collision of Asia and Indian plates?
A) Eocene Period
B) Jurassic Period
C) Cretaceous Period
D) Miocene Period
  • 30. Which autonomous county in China shares the location of K2 with Pakistan?
A) Taxkorgan Tajik Autonomous County
B) Tibet Autonomous Region
C) Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
D) Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region
  • 31. What type of dikes intrude the K2 gneiss on the west face of Broad Peak and south spur of K2?
A) Garnet-mica leucogranitic dikes
B) Leucogranite dikes
C) Clinopyroxene-porphyritic vogesites
D) Lamprophyre dikes
  • 32. When was a corrected measurement of K2 made after the 1986 expedition?
A) In 1987
B) In 1990
C) In 1988
D) In 1985
  • 33. Which side of K2 is the steepest?
A) The north side
B) The east side
C) The west side
D) The south side
  • 34. In which year was the height of K2 accurately measured using satellite navigation?
A) 1980
B) 1965
C) 2000
D) 2014
  • 35. Which Italian climber popularized the phrase 'The Mountain of Mountains'?
A) Achille Compagnoni
B) Reinhold Messner
C) Lino Lacedelli
D) Fosco Maraini
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