The Ultimate Mountain Trivia Quiz Challenge E-Book

Ralph Storer

• Herausgeber: Luath Press
• Kategorie: Lebensstil
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 117

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2013

Beschreibung

Are you ready to tackle The Ultimate Mountain Trivia Quiz Challenge? This is a quiz book for people who love the mountains and the outdoors. It will put your brain through its paces on a wide range of topics including the world's mountains, camping, weather, history, films… Add cryptic clues, anagrams and a whole pot pourri of teasers and twisters and there's something here for everyone. The author of 100 Best Routes on Scottish Mountains and The Ultimate Guide to the Munros series brings his quizzing skills and encyclopaedic knowledge of the outdoors to a book that will both inform and delight. Whether you're sitting by the campfire or in an armchair, the result is a thoroughly interesting and entertaining collection, as challenging as any mountain. Have fun but be warned that quiz-surfing can become addictive. Please surf responsibly.

Leseprobe

Question:Who is Ralph Storer?

Answer:Ralph was born in England about 50 metres from where Julius Caesar landed in 55 BC (Note: to dispel any ambiguity here – 55 BC was the date Julius landed; Ralph was born slightly later). He has walked and climbed extensively in the UK and around the world, and now lives in Scotland within reach of the Highlands. He is well known as a writer of hillwalking books, including the standard Scottish guidebooks100 Best Routes on Scottish Mountains,The Ultimate Guide to the Munrosseries andBaffies’ Easy Munro Guideseries.

Praise forMountain Trivia Quiz ChallengeAmerican edition

A delightful collection of questions… Storer has managed to mix great enjoyment and intellectual stimulation in one small book… It will offer you hours of fun and information.

KLCC NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO

A clever and informative quiz book…[it]deserves an honoured place in the bathroom-reading hall of fame as well as its very own backpack pocket.

SNOW COUNTRY

It’s great fun for everyone, whether at a campfire in the great outdoors or waiting for traffic to move during the five o’clock rush hour.

ABILENE REPORTER

Praise forBaffies Easy Munro Guideseries

Within the covers of this slim volume is a truly outstanding guidebook.

UNDISCOVERED SCOTLAND

…packed to bursting with concise information and route descriptions.

There should be room for this guide in every couch potato’s rucksack.

OUTDOOR WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS GUILD

Praise forThe Ultimate Guide to the Munrosseries

Fabulously illustrated…Entertaining as well as informative… One of the definitive guides to the Munros. PRESS & JOURNAL

Picks up where others – including my own – leave off, with lots of nitty-gritty information, all in a very up-beat style.

CAMERON McNEISH

Brilliant. OUTDOOR WRITERS & PHOTOGRAPHERS GUILD

This is a truly indispensible guide for the Munro-bagger. Bursting with information, wit and a delightful irreverence. An absolute gem!

ALEX MACKINNON, Manager, Waterstone’s George Street, Edinburgh

The ideal hillwalking companion. SCOTS MAGAZINE

His books are exceptional… Storer subverts the guidebook genre completely. THE ANGRY CORRIE

By the same author

100 Best Routes on Scottish Mountains(Little Brown)

50 Classic Routes on Scottish Mountains(Luath Press)

50 Best Routes on Skye and Raasay(Birlinn)

Exploring Scottish Hill Tracks(Little Brown)

The Joy of Hillwalking(Luath Press)

The Ultimate Guide to the Munrosseries:

Volume 1: Southern Highlands

Volume 2: Central Highlands South (including Glen Coe)

Volume 3: Central Highlands North (including Ben Nevis)

Volume 4: Cairngorms South (including Lochnagar)

Baffies’ Easy Munro Guideseries:

Volume 1: Southern Highlands

Volume 2: Central Highlands

The Ultimate Mountain Trivia Quiz Challenge

Volume 1

RALPH STORER

BOOT-TESTED AND COMPILED BY THE GO-TAKE-A-HIKE MOUNTAINEERING CLUB

LuathPress Limited

EDINBURGH

www.luath.co.uk

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

MICHELANGELO

Dedicated to others who seek answers to their questions

First published 2014

eBook 2013

ISBN (print): 978-1-908373-82-3

ISBN (eBook): 978-1-909912-71-7

The author’s right to be identified as author of this book under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 has been asserted.

© Ralph Storer

Contents

Go-Take-A-Hike Mountaineering Club committee members

Introduction

Beginners Lucky Seven

SCOTTISH MUNROS

1 Munros: General

2 Munros: The Southern Highlands

3 Munros: The Central Highlands

4 Munros: The Cairngorms

5 Munros: The Western Highlands

6 Munros: The Northern Highlands

7 Munros: Ben Nevis

8 Munros: History

9 Munros: Odd One Out

10 Munros: Anagrams

SCOTTISH HIGHLANDS & ISLANDS

11 Scottish Mountain and Hill Ranges

12 Scottish Corbetts

13 The Isle of Skye

14 Scottish Island Highpoints

15 Scotland: What And Where?

16 Cryptic Scottish Mountains and Hills

ENGLAND AND WALES

17 English Mountains and Hills

18 Welsh Mountains and Hills

19 Mountain and Hill Ranges of England and Wales

20 British Island Highpoints

21 Lake District: Odd One Out

22 Lake District Hills: Anagrams

EUROPE

23 Europe: Hitting the High Spots

24 European Mountain Ranges

25 Ireland and Northern Ireland

26 The European Alps

THE WORLD

27 High Country

28 Mountains of the World

29 Mountain Ranges of the World

30 Alps of the World

31 The USA

32 The Numbers Game

SPECIALIST SUBJECTS

TORPEDO

33 Long Distance Trails of England and Wales

34 Camping

TERMINATOR

35 British Mountain Ridges

36 Famous British mountaineers

CHILLY WILLY

37 It’s Cold Outside

38 Glaciers

GIGI

39 Mountain Weather

40 Mountain Flora and Fauna

BAFFIES

41 Literary Connections

42 Films

POT POURRI

43 Pot Pourri 1

44 Pot Pourri 2

45 Pot Pourri 3

46 Pot Pourri 4

47 Pot Pourri 5

48 Pot Pourri 6

49 Pot Pourri 7

50 Pot Pourri 8

Answers appear immediately after each question set.

Go-Take-A-Hike Mountaineering Club Committee

Ralph Storer President

Compiler of routes, penner of words, stopper of bucks, all-round good egg.

GiGi Custodian of the Common Sense

Farer (fairer?) of the Ways, arbiter of disputes, friend to all. Named after the two embarrassing grooves occasioned by too much fence-sitting.

F-Stop Controller of the Camera

Advisor of the Aperture. Recorder of the Ridiculous. So-named because he’s always f***ing stopping to take photographs.

Needlepoint Companion of the Compass

Wary Watcher of the Weather. Finds featureless plateaus intimidating, doesn’t understand GPS, barely understands a compass.

Chilly Willy Keeper of the Cool

AKA Snowballs. Peely-wally, estivates during summer, has never seen a midge, likes his toast crisp and even.

Torpedo Expender of the Energy

Bald and streamlined. Loather of laziness. Scorch marks on boots. Ascends as fast as a falling Munro-bagger descends.

Terminator Raveller of the Rope

Grizzled, monosyllabic, self-taught suicide commando. Hater of the horizontal. Measures his life in scars.

Baffies Entertainments Convenor

Allergic to exertion, prone to lassitude, suffers from altitude sickness above 600m, blisters easily, bleeds readily.

Introduction

THIS IS A QUIZ BOOK for people who love mountains and all things associated with them.

That means you.

How do we know this? Because if you were not interested in mountains, you wouldn’t be reading this.

Okay, so right now you’d sooner be climbing a mountain. Who wouldn’t? Unfortunately, there are times when it’s not possible and that’s whereThe Ultimate Mountain Trivia Quiz Challengecomes in.

When storm clouds sweep the summits and gales lash the flysheet, take time out and curl up in your sleeping bag with this book. When the days grow short and winter hail rattles against the window pane, put your feet up beside the fire and let this book take you in spirit to the mountains. When the summer sun beats down and induces lethargy, when the car journey to the trailhead seems to go on forever, when you’re commuting to work and the long hard day stretches ahead and you wish you were in the mountains, let this book exercise your mind. Prepare yourself for the ultimate mountain challenge – the Mountain Trivia Quiz Challenge!

No matter whether you climb the fiercest faces in the depths of winter or take a short stroll to the mountain foot on a warm afternoon simply to stand and stare, this book is for you. Here you will find, grouped into 50 topics/quizzes, a smorgasbord of mountain-related questions. Some will enable you to show off your knowledge. Others will enable you to display your ignorance. Some are easy and satisfying, some are harder and more informative, some are curious and interesting. Some will stir your imagination, others will infuriate. Some answers you will know, some you won’t, some you’ll think you know but don’t, some you’ll think you don’t know but do.

And there are yet others you may not wish to know.

The quizzes were devised by the committee of the Go-Take-a-Hike Mountaineering Club. We are an eclectic bunch and the quizzes reflect a wide range of interests and abilities, ranging geographically from the UK to Europe and the rest of the world. In addition, five committee members have each been leaned on to supply a couple of questions that reflect their particular interests, and there are a further eightpot pourriquizzes on topics both familiar and esoteric.

Of course, we realise that some questions may lie outside your realm of expertise and require ‘informed guesswork’, so we deign sometimes to offer clues or a range of possible answers. You’re welcome. Ironically, it is often the topics youdon’tknow that are the most interesting and fun to tackle. Hopefully they will provide as much pleasurable exercise for the mind as mountains do for the body. If you really want to get in the mood, lace up your boots, shoulder your pack and break out the Kendal mint cake. Before tackling a difficult question it might even be worth roping up and putting the first aid kit on standby… just in case.

How you tackle this book is up to you. It’s as suitable for solitary quiz-surfing as it is for head-to-head combat with a rival or as a team game. Scoring is also a matter of personal choice. We suggest two points per correct answer. This will enable you to award yourself one point for a partially or nearly correct answer.

We have done our best to ensure that all answers are correct at time of writing, but a few may be open to minor dispute. Estimates of the heights of mountains, for instance, vary according to measurement method. A question on ‘sea cliffs’ presupposes an agreed definition of both sea (does a fjord count?) and cliff (how steep does a slope have to be to be called a cliff?). In the light of this, we abrogate any and all liability for injury or damage arising directly or indirectly from altercations concerning the accuracy of any and all information presented herein.

Finally, a word of warning. Quiz-surfing can be addictive. Certain committee members are still unable to climb a mountain or read a mountaineering book without potential questions forming unbidden in their minds. That way lies madness. There are more mountains than you will ever climb and more questions than you will ever answer. Climb and surf responsibly.

Ralph Storer

President, Go-Take-a-Hike M. C.

Beginner’s Lucky Seven

If you can’t answer these, give up now!

1. Arrange the following characters to spell the name of an 8000m Himalayan peak: 2K.

2. After which mountain are the Cairngorms named?

3. Who wrote the classic 1930s book on Alpine climbing entitledGervasutti’s Climbs?

4. In which country is Mount Kenya situated?

5. After whom is California’s John Muir Trail named?

6. Which mountain range was the subject of Edward Whymper’s 1891 classic mountaineering bookTravels Amongst the Great Andes of the Equator?

7. How often is the annual Alpine Journal published?

Scottish Munros

1 | Munros: General

A Munro is a separate mountain of 3000ft (914m) or over, as defined by Sir Hugh Munro and listed in Munro’s Tables (1891 and later revised editions). A Top is a (nearby) mountain of 3000ft or over but one that is not sufficiently separated from the Munro to be considered a Munro itself.

1. The 282 Munros in Scotland are traditionally grouped for hill-walking and guidebook purposes into six regions. As of 2014, which of these regions contains the most Munros?

The Southern Highlands

The Central Highlands

The Cairngorms

The Western Highlands

The Northern Highlands

The Islands

2. Which of the six regions contains the most 4000ft (1220m) Munros?

3. How many Munros are higher than 1000m/3281ft?

(a) 137

(b) 174

(c) 203

4. Name the only Scottish island apart from Skye that has any Munros.

5. Which of the following is the most common Munro name,with four occurrences (using variant spellings)?

(a) Ben More

(b) Carn Dearg

(c) Geal Charn

6. In an alphabetical list of Munros, which comes first?

7. In 1984, following resurveying, a mountain was elevated to Munro status. In 2009, it was re-measured again at 914.6m/ 3000.80ft. Since then, it has overtaken (undertaken?) Ben Vane, re-measured at 915.76m/3004.60ft, as the lowest Munro of all. Name the mountain.

8. Since the last major (1997) revision of Munro’s Tables, three Munros hold the record for having the most number of subsidiary Tops (five). Which Munro holds the historic record, having had nine subsidiary Tops from 1921 to 1981?

(a) An Teallach

(b) Cairn Gorm

(c) Lochnagar

9. Who is generally recognised as being the first person to climb all the Munros?

(a) A.E. Robertson

(b) Hugh Munro

(c) W.W. Naismith

10. As of 2014, how many Tops are there?

(a) 226

(b) 256

(c) 286

Answers

1 MUNROS: GENERAL

1. The Central Highlands: 73 Munros. The Southern Highlands have 46, the Central Highlands have 46, the Cairngorms have 50, the Western Highlands have 62, the Northern Highlands have 38 and the Islands have 13.

2. Both the Central Highlands (Ben Nevis area) and the Cairngorms contain four 4000ft (1220m) Munros.

3. (a) 137.

4. Mull. Ben More.

5. (c) Geal Charn (White Cairn – all four are in the Central Highlands). N.B. Two are spelt Geal-Charn and Geal-charn. Three Munros are called Carn Dearg (Red Cairn – all in the Central Highlands), while two are called Ben More (Big Mountain – one in the Southern Highlands and one on the Isle of Mull), together with Ben More Assynt in the Northern Highlands. There are also three Munros called An Socach (The Snout – one in the Cairngorms and two in the Western Highlands).

6. A’ Bhuidheanach Bheag, above the A9 at Drumochter Pass in the Cairngorms.

7. Beinn Teallach (Glen Spean, Central Highlands).

8. (b) Cairn Gorm. In the original 1891 Tables it had two Tops, but a major revision in 1921 awarded it nine.

9. (a) A. E. Robertson (1870–1958). A Church of Scotland minister, he completed his round of the Munros on Meall Dearg (Glen Coe) in 1901, but whether he actually summited on a couple of occasions is debated, and summits such as the Inaccessible Pinnacle on Skye were not regarded as Munros at the time.