Q 01/05

What is the capital and largest city of Nepal?

A) Kathmandu

B) Pokhara

C) Lalitpur

D) Biratnagar

Answer · why

A) Kathmandu

Kathmandu takes its name from Kasthamandap, a wooden pavilion that legend says was built from the timber of a single tree.

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

Eight of the world's ten highest mountains stand in Nepal; which of these giants lies entirely outside it?

A) Lhotse

B) K2

C) Makalu

D) Manaslu

Answer · why

B) K2

K2, in the Karakoram, kept its survey label because the remote peak seemed to have no local name, while its neighbour K1 turned out to be Masherbrum.

Q 04/05

Chomolungma is the name used north of the border; what is Mount Everest's official name in Nepal?

A) Gauri Shankar

B) Kangchenjunga

C) Sagarmatha

D) Dhaulagiri

Answer · why

C) Sagarmatha

Sagarmatha was put forward by historian Baburam Acharya, because until then Nepal had no official Nepali name of its own for the peak.

Q 05/05

What force is still slowly raising Mount Everest?

A) A volcanic hotspot

B) Shrinking crust

C) India pushing into Asia

D) Swelling permafrost

Answer · why

C) India pushing into Asia

India pushing into Asia raised the Himalaya, and because that collision continues today, Everest's height keeps changing.