Who invented the name "mountaineer"?

Reinhold Messner

William Shakespeare

Edmund Hillary

Charls Dickens

William Shakespeare first used this word in a play "Cymbeline" in 1611.

Kristine Rjabova

Jens Plinzler

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Answers by country

Australia

81%

the Netherlands

55%

16%

22%

Switzerland

17%

50%

20%

11%

Greece

41%

16%

33%

Austria

21%

40%

10%

26%

the United States

22%

36%

22%

18%

the United Kingdom

16%

34%

16%

32%

Poland

17%

33%

23%

25%

2223

Germany

17%

31%

20%

28%

251

India

50%

20%

30%

What is the farthest point on the Earth's surface from the Earth's center?

Mount Everest, Nepal, elevation 8,848 m (29,029 ft)

Chimborazo, Ecuador, elevation 6,268 m (20,564 ft)

Puncak Jaya, Indonesia, elevation 4,884 m (16,024 ft)

Denali (Mount McKinley), USA, elevation 6,168 m (20,236 ft)

Which of the following European mountain ranges will rise the most in the next century?

Carpathian Mountains

Alps

Pyrenees

Scandinavian Mountains

This optical phenomenon, appearing on misty mountainsides, is called...

What's the origin of the word "turquoise"?

Turku City in Finland

Turkey as a country

Turkusy, fake region

Persian tortoise