Q 01/05

Which two men were the first confirmed to reach Everest's summit, in May 1953?

A) Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler

B) George Mallory and Andrew Irvine

C) John Hunt and Charles Evans

D) Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary

Answer · why

D) Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary

Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary. News of their climb reached London just in time to be announced on the morning of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, ...

Q 02/05

What happened to Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurance in the Weddell Sea in 1915?

A) Sunk by an iceberg

B) Crushed by pack ice

C) Wrecked on a reef

D) Burned at anchor

Answer · why

B) Crushed by pack ice

Crushed by pack ice. The ship had been frozen in for most of the year before her hull gave way, yet every man of her crew lived to be rescued.

Q 03/05

What was the name of the lifeboat Shackleton and five men sailed 800 miles to South Georgia?

A) James Caird

B) Dudley Docker

C) Terra Nova

D) Aurora

Answer · why

A) James Caird

James Caird. The boat reached the uninhabited side of South Georgia, so Shackleton and two others then crossed its unmapped mountains on foot to reach...

Q 04/05

Roald Amundsen led the first expedition to traverse which sea route, in 1903–06, aboard the sloop Gjøa?

A) The Northeast Passage

B) The Northwest Passage

C) The Drake Passage

D) The Bering Strait

Answer · why

B) The Northwest Passage

The Northwest Passage. Where big naval expeditions had failed, he took just six men in a small fishing boat, shallow enough to hug the coast all the w...

Q 05/05

Which animals hauled Roald Amundsen's sledges to the South Pole, helping him beat Scott by five weeks?

A) Ponies

B) Dogs

C) Reindeer

D) Mules

Answer · why

B) Dogs

Dogs. Amundsen set out with 52 and planned from the start to kill most of them on the way, as food for the men and the surviving teams.