Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Nepal?

A) Kathmandu

B) Pokhara

C) Lalitpur

D) Biratnagar

Answer · why

A) Kathmandu

Its valley was the seat of the Newar confederacy known as Nepal Mandala.

Q 02/05

Nepal is landlocked between India and which other country?

A) Bhutan

B) Bangladesh

C) Pakistan

D) China

Answer · why

D) China

It touches the Tibet Autonomous Region to the north; Bhutan lies just beyond Sikkim.

Q 03/05

How many of the world's ten highest mountains lie wholly or partly in Nepal?

A) Three

B) Five

C) Eight

D) All ten

Answer · why

C) Eight

They include Everest, the highest point above sea level on Earth.

Q 04/05

What is the Nepali name for Mount Everest?

A) Qomolangma

B) Sagarmatha

C) Chomolungma

D) Kangchenjunga

Answer · why

B) Sagarmatha

Across the border it is called Qomolangma, often written Chomolungma.

Q 05/05

Everest's height, as measured in a 2020 Nepal-China survey, is what?

A) 8,611 m

B) 8,848.86 m

C) 8,790 m

D) 8,840 m

Answer · why

B) 8,848.86 m

An earlier 19th-century survey had put Peak XV at 8,840 m.