# 🏔️ Trivia: Mount Everest  
**🗓️ Used:** 2025-06-13

## 🧠 Regular Questions

### 1. Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the ______.  
**Answer:** World  
- “Size does matter, apparently.”  
- “It’s a vertical brag.”  
- “Earth’s biggest middle finger.”  
- “Proof nature has no chill.”  
- “Gravity’s final boss.”

### 2. Mount Everest is located on the border of Nepal and ______.  
**Answer:** China (Tibet)  
- “Two countries, one deadly summit.”  
- “International pain-sharing program.”  
- “Where sherpas and politics meet.”  
- “Climb with a visa... or die trying.”  
- “Geopolitical altitude sickness.”

### 3. What is the local Nepali name for Mount Everest?  
**Answer:** Sagarmatha  
- “Sounds cooler than ‘Everest’ tbh.”  
- “Name of legends. And snow.”  
- “Sagarmatha: ancient for ‘ouch.’”  
- “Respect the local vocab, poser.”  
- “Sherpas say Sagarmatha. Tourists say panic.”

### 4. What is the approximate height of Mount Everest?  
**Answer:** 29,032 feet  
- “That’s 8,848 meters of nope.”  
- “Tall enough to make planes nervous.”  
- “Where your lungs go to retire.”  
- “Climbing it? You might not *survive* it.”  
- “Also known as Death Above Sea Level.”

### 5. What famous British climber disappeared on Everest in 1924?  
**Answer:** George Mallory  
- “He vanished before it was cool.”  
- “Did he summit? We’ll never know.”  
- “Mallory: The OG mountaineering ghost.”  
- “His body said, ‘I’m staying.’”  
- “‘Because it’s there’—famously bad reasons.”

## ✍️ Fill-in-the-Blank Questions

### 1. The first successful ascent of Everest was in the year ______.  
**Answer:** 1953  
- “Right after war, right before wifi.”  
- “Peak Cold War achievement.”  
- “Old school boots, new school bragging rights.”  
- “No GPS. Just guts and frostbite.”  
- “Back when mountaineering meant ‘maybe death.’”

### 2. The first confirmed climbers to reach the summit were Edmund Hillary and ______ Norgay.  
**Answer:** Tenzing  
- “A duo powered by sheer will and canned beans.”  
- “Sir Hillary and the legend of the sherpas.”  
- “New Zealander + Nepali = peak teamwork.”  
- “Tenzing Norgay: the guy who did the hard part.”  
- “Respect the sherpa, fear the summit.”

### 3. The “Death Zone” on Everest starts at around ______ feet.  
**Answer:** 26,000  
- “Where breathing becomes a dare.”  
- “Oxygen optional, common sense gone.”  
- “Where every step is sponsored by bad decisions.”  
- “Above this line: good luck.”  
- “It’s called the Death Zone, not the Nap Zone.”

### 4. Most climbers use bottled ______ to reach the summit.  
**Answer:** Oxygen  
- “Air you pay for at altitude.”  
- “Because Everest doesn’t do breathing favors.”  
- “Your lungs will betray you up there.”  
- “O2: The luxury you can’t afford to skip.”  
- “Because gasping is not a sport.”

### 5. The area known as the “Khumbu ______” is one of the most dangerous parts of the climb.  
**Answer:** Icefall  
- “Basically a frozen death trap.”  
- “Everest’s icy gauntlet of doom.”  
- “If the mountain doesn’t kill you, this might.”  
- “Crevasses. Collapse. Chaos.”  
- “It’s like ninja warrior, but you’re cold and sad.”

## ❓ Multiple Choice Questions

### 1. [Difficulty: 1]  
What mountain range is Everest part of?  
- A. Rockies  
- B. Alps  
- C. Himalayas  
- D. Andes  
**Answer:** C. Himalayas  
- “The roof of the world. Also the roof of regret.”  
- “Himalayas: where altitude and attitude meet.”  
- “Home to Everest and questionable choices.”  
- “Snowy spine of Earth’s most intense hiking trail.”  
- “Bring crampons and curses.”

### 2. [Difficulty: 2]  
What is the name of the base camp on the south side of Everest?  
- A. Camp Frost  
- B. Hillary Station  
- C. South Base Camp  
- D. Glacier Watch  
**Answer:** C. South Base Camp  
- “Where you realize you paid to suffer.”  
- “Starting line for frozen ambition.”  
- “Welcome to altitude, altitude, and more altitude.”  
- “Base Camp: where dreams go to rethink themselves.”  
- “Warmest place you’ll be. That’s not saying much.”

### 3. [Difficulty: 3]  
Which of these is a serious risk when climbing Everest?  
- A. Heatstroke  
- B. Shark attack  
- C. Avalanche  
- D. Rabies  
**Answer:** C. Avalanche  
- “The mountain fights back.”  
- “Snow + gravity = oops.”  
- “Your expensive jacket won’t save you.”  
- “When the scenery turns on you.”  
- “Mother Nature says ‘nope.’”

### 4. [Difficulty: 3]  
What is the name of the region inhabited by the Sherpa people?  
- A. Gobi  
- B. Himalayas  
- C. Khumbu  
- D. Tibet  
**Answer:** C. Khumbu  
- “The real MVP zone.”  
- “Sherpa country: where legends live.”  
- “They carry your gear *and* your fate.”  
- “Respect the Khumbu—or die.”  
- “Sherpas: calm, cool, and climbing gods.”

### 5. [Difficulty: 4]  
Which of these was the first woman to summit Everest?  
- A. Junko Tabei  
- B. Wanda Rutkiewicz  
- C. Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner  
- D. Reinhold Messner  
**Answer:** A. Junko Tabei  
- “She showed the boys how it’s done.”  
- “Junko: Queen of altitude.”  
- “1975: She broke ceilings *and* summits.”  
- “Mountains? She climbed them all.”  
- “Tabei didn’t flinch, Everest did.”

