Himalayas quiz
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Which plateau do the Himalayas separate from India's plains?
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Where are eight of the world's ten highest peaks?
Answer: Nepal
Why: Only two of the top ten, K2 and Nanga Parbat, stand outside Nepal, far to the northwest.
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Which animals did a 2017 DNA study find behind most 'yeti' samples?
Answer: Bears
Why: Six of the eight bear samples came from Tibetan brown bears, the rest from two other Asian bears.
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What height did Nepal and China jointly announce for Everest in 2020?
Answer: 8,848.86 m
Why: China's earlier figure of 8,844.43 m, from 2005, measured the bare rock and left out the summit's snow cap.
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What did Reinhold Messner first climb Everest without in 1978?
Answer: Bottled oxygen
Why: In 1980 Messner went back and reached the summit alone, again without bottled oxygen.
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What does a Sherpa name like Pasang traditionally mark?
Answer: Weekday of birth
Why: Pasang marks a child born on a Friday, while Pemba marks a Saturday birth.
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What creature lives permanently highest on Mount Everest?
Answer: Jumping spider
Why: At 6,700 meters, these spiders survive where no plants grow by eating tiny insects carried up the slopes by wind.
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