Pub Trivia

Welcome to Pub Trivia! The SPT team hosted Pub Trivia this past wednesday, and I was given complete control over one of four rounds. After sitting through numerous rounds of lame questions about movies and pop music in past weeks, what category did I pick? Mountains! 2 teams clearly had climbers, and 2 teams clearly did not. Out of 21 points, the team scores were 2, 3, 9 and 11.

Here are the questions, see what you would have scored (that means no looking up questions until after you have finished...) If you want, you can email me your guesses and I will email back answers. Or you could just look the answers up, for which Wikipedia is amazing!

Mountains.

1) [2pt] What is the highest peak in the contiguous united states, and what is its height to within 100 feet?

2) [2pts] What is the tallest mountain face in the world? 2 pts, mountain and name of the face.

3) [1pt] This country has produced well knows climbers such as Chris Bonnington and Mick Fowler. It's strict anti-bolt ethics brought about the climbing style "head-pointing" on its famous grit-stone. Name this country.

4) [2pts] What is the second highest peak in Antarctica, and when was it first climbed? Year +- 5. 2 pts.

5) [1pt] What peak has the greatest continuous rise from base to summit in the world?

6) [1pt] How many 14000 ft peaks are there in CO? Must be within +- 5

Extra spontaneous bonus point: Who skiied all of these peaks within one year?

7) [1pt] This asthetic mountain lies in either Angentina or Chile, depenting who you ask. It has been described as "The hardest mountain in the world." It's easiest route is the controversial "Compressor Route," put up by Cesare Maestri in 1970. What is the name of this mountain?

8) [2pts] What is the tallest mountain in Montana? 2 pts, name of the mountain, height to within 500 ft.

9) [1pt] What is the death rate on Annapurna, the deadliest 8000 meter peak? This is defined as the ratio of the number of people who die on Annapurna to the number of people who try to climb it? Statistics are as of January, 2007.

10) [1pt] Mt Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. What is its Nepalese name?

11) [3pts] What is the tallest mountain on the Oceania continent? For an extra point, what country is it in? For a third point, what man-made environmental disaster lies at the foot of the mountain

12) [3pts] Name the 6 Great North Faces of the Alps. 1pt for 1, 2pts for 3, 3 pts for all 6. See pictures below: - - The internet connection is too slow to upload these pictures right now. So you are going to just have to guess off the top of your heads. If you are concerned, please write a letter to your senator or representative asking them to support more satellite coverage for scientists at the south pole.