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