Mountains Quiz 3

Mountains Quiz 3

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1. Located at Milam valley, in the Pithoragarh district of Uttarakhand, this mountain peak is also called the "Temple of God".

Hardeol
Chaukhamba
Nanda Devi
Tirsuli

2. Mountain building process generally takes place at

convergent plate boundary
divergent plate boundary
transform faults
interior of a plate

3. Name the first woman to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen

Malavath Purna
Lhakpa Sherpa
Santosh Yadav
Lydia Bradey

4. Name the highest mountain located entirely in India

Kangchenjunga
Nanda Devi
Anamudi
Doddabeta

5. Name the highest volcanic mountain in Asia that is part of the Volcanic Seven Summits mountaineering challenge

Mount Damavand
Mount Aso
Mount Etna
Sakuarajima

6. Name the Indian mountaineer who made a world record to be the youngest to climb both the Seven Summits as well as Seven Volcanic Summits

Avtar Singh Cheema
Malli Mastan Babu
Mohan Singh Kohli
Satyarup Siddhanta

7. Name the mountain that is called Chomolungma, "Goddess Mother of Mountains", in Tibet

Mount Everest
Mount Kailash
Shishapangma
Jomolhari

8. Nilgiri Hills, which literally means the blue mountains, got their name from the purplish blue flowers of this plant that blossoms gregariously only once in 12 years. Name the plant

Neelakurunji
Bellflower
Blue popy
Blue hibiscus

9. Phawngpui, also known as Blue Mountain, is the highest mountain peak in the Lushai Hills. In which Indian state it is located?

Meghalaya
Tripura
Manipur
Mizoram

10. "Pidurutalagala" is the tallest mountain of which of the following neighbouring country?

Myanmar
Nepal
Sri Lanka
Bangladesh

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