All 13 questions
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Which mountain is the highest on Earth outside of Asia, and the loftiest in both the Western and Southern Hemispheres?
- Aconcagua
- Puncak Jaya
- Kilimanjaro
- Denali
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Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa, is geologically best described as which of the following?
- A fault-block mountain
- A folded sedimentary mountain
- An active shield volcano
- A dormant stratovolcano
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In 2015, the United States federally renamed North America's highest peak from Mount ___ to Denali.
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Under the standard geographic convention that places the Caucasus in Europe, which peak is the highest mountain in Europe?
- Mount Elbrus
- Matterhorn
- Dufourspitze
- Mont Blanc
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On the Messner (Carstensz) version of the Seven Summits, which peak represents the Australia-Oceania region?
- Puncak Jaya
- Mount Wilhelm
- Mount Kosciuszko
- Aoraki / Mount Cook
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Mount Vinson, the highest summit in Antarctica, rises within the ___ Mountains.
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Measured strictly by surface area, which is the largest desert on Earth?
- Antarctic Desert
- Gobi Desert
- Sahara
- Arabian Desert
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Mount Everest's summit is the point on Earth's solid surface that lies farthest from the centre of the Earth.
- True
- False
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The Atacama, the driest nonpolar desert on Earth, lies mainly within the country of ___.
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Which is the longest continental (above-water) mountain range on Earth?
- The Himalayas
- The Great Dividing Range
- The Rocky Mountains
- The Andes
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Measured from its base on the ocean floor to its summit, Mauna Kea is taller than Mount Everest.
- True
- False
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The catastrophic 1883 eruption of Krakatoa took place in the Sunda Strait of which modern-day country?
- Philippines
- Japan
- Indonesia
- Iceland
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The global 'Year Without a Summer' of 1816, marked by widespread crop failures across the Northern Hemisphere, followed the 1815 eruption of which volcano?
- Mount Vesuvius
- Mount Tambora
- Mount Pinatubo
- Mount Pelee