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110 quiz time

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What mountain was first climbed by Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay?

a)

K2

b)

Mont Blanc

c)

Everest

d)

Annapurna

2.

Who famously cut the rope holding Joe Simpson in Touching the Void?

a)

Leo Houlding

b)

Doug Scott

c)

Kenton Cool

d)

Simon Yates

3.

Which absolute legend has summited Everest 14 times

a)

Kenton Cool

b)

Kenton Tepid

c)

Luke Warm

d)

Sir Chris Bonnington

4.

When was the first ascent of Mount Everest

a)

28 May 1953

b)

29 May 1953

c)

30 May 1954

d)

31 May 1955

5.

Who were the first British climbers to summit Mount Everest?

a)

Doug Scott and Dougal Haston

b)

Chris Bonnington and Doug Scott

c)

Joe Brown and Don Whillans

d)

Don Whillans and Chris Bonnington

6.

How tall is Mount Everest?

a)

8844 m

b)

8484 m

c)

8448 m

d)

8848 m

7.

Who was the first person to reach the South Pole?

a)

Robert Falcon Scott

b)

Captain Oates

c)

Roald Amundsen

d)

Earnest Shackleton

8.

Who was the first to climb the Old Man of Hoy and climbed it again on his 80th birthday?

a)

Joe Brown

b)

Don Whillans

c)

Doug Scott

d)

Chris Bonnington

9.

Kenton Cool (KC) or Jeremy Clarkson (JC)

a)
b)
10.

Who beat Jeremy Clarkson up a cliff face in Verdon Gorge?

a)

Adam Ondra

b)

Tommy Caldwell

c)

Leo Houlding

d)

Alex Honnold

11.

Alex Honnold was the first to...

a)

free solo El Capitan

b)

climb the Dawn Wall

c)

be crowned world champion boulderer and lead climber

d)

redpoint a 9c route

12.

Kevin Jorgeson and which climber freed the Dawn Wall on El Capitan in a 19 day epic?

a)

Alex Honnold

b)

Leo Houlding

c)

Tommy Caldwell

d)

Adam Ondra

13.

Which bay in Australia was discovered by James Cook?

a)

Shark Bay

b)

Bounty Bay

c)

Cook Bay

d)

Botany Bay

14.

Who was playing bowls in Plymouth Hoe when he was told of the approach of the Spanish Armada?

a)

James Cook

b)

Walter Raleigh

c)

Christopher Columbus

d)

Francis Drake

15.

Who were the first people to cross the Antarctic unsupported?

a)

Ranulph Fiennes and Mike Stroud

b)

Reinhold Messner and Arved Fuchs

c)

Eric Phillips, Jon Muir and Peter Hillary

d)

Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft

16.

Who was the first person to ski alone across Antarctica using only personal muscle power?

a)

Louis Rudd

b)

Ramon Hernando de Larramendi

c)

Felicity Aston

d)

Maria Leijerstam

17.

Who said "Dr Livingstone I presume?"?

a)

Charles Darwin

b)

Mungo Park

c)

Henry Morton Stanley

d)

Richard Francis Burton

18.

What nationality was Christopher Columbus?

a)

French

b)

Spanish

c)

Portuguese

d)

Italian

19.

Who was the first civilian to fly in space for NASA?

a)

Michael Collins

b)

Neil Armstrong

c)

Helen Sharman

d)

Sally Ride

20.

Ray Mears was a member of?

a)

ATC

b)

CCF

c)

Scouts

d)

ACF

21.

On Graham Norton's show, Ray could not make fire because?

a)

Health and Safety

b)

Everything was doused in fire retardant

c)

of a bear related injury

d)

the crew played a trick on him

22.

Ray met the Sanema tribe that had barely changed in 10000 years, where was this?

a)

Amazon

b)

Baffin Island

c)

Namibia

d)

Mongolian Steppes

23.

What made this track?

a)

Fox

b)

Bear

c)

Badger

d)

Hedgehog

24.

This is a track made by a

a)

Rat

b)

Hare

c)

Rabbit

d)

Squirrel

25.

This was made by a

a)

4 year old

b)

tiger

c)

hedgehog

d)

otter

26.

What made these tracks?

a)

Deer

b)

Sheep

c)

Cow

d)

Horse

27.

What left this?

a)

Sheep

b)

Rabbit

c)

Hare

d)

Deer

28.

More droppings, what was responsible for this?

a)

Fox

b)

Otter

c)

Hedgehog

d)

Badger

29.

Another one, why not?

a)

Buzzard

b)

Otter

c)

Hare

d)

Owl

30.

Last one, promise

a)

Owl

b)

Fox

c)

Otter

d)

Hedgehog