Friday 20 Question Quiz – 19/07/2024

Round 1: Mountains

10 questions all about mountains.

What snow-capped and dormant compound volcano in the extreme east of Turkey consists of two major volcanic cones and is the highest peak in Turkey and the Armenian Highland?

What mountain of the Bernese Alps, overlooking Grindelwald and Lauterbrunnen, has a notable feature of a nearly 1,800-metre-high (5,900 ft) north face of rock and ice?

Which mountain of the Alps, straddling the border between Switzerland and Italy is a large, near-symmetric pyramidal peak and one of the highest summits in the Alps and Europe?

What large active stratovolcano is located about 59 miles south-southeast of Seattle is the highest mountain in the U.S. state of Washington and the Cascade Range and has a high probability of eruption in the near future?

The highest in the Alps and Western Europe, rising 4,808.7 m (15,777 ft) above sea level, ownership of the summit area of which mountain has long been a subject of historical dispute between France and Italy?

What is the highest mountain in Wales, at an elevation of 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) above sea level, and the highest point in the British Isles outside the Scottish Highlands?

In Tibetan it is called Chomolungma. What is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas?

Which dormant volcano in Tanzania has three volcanic cones: Kibo, Mawenzi, and Shira, and is the highest mountain in Africa and the highest single free-standing mountain in the world?

Also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name, what is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of 20,310 feet above sea level and is the third most prominent and third most isolated peak on Earth?

Located on the island of Honshū, what is the highest mountain in Japan, and the second-highest volcano located on an island in Asia?