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7 Mountain/Rock Climbing quizzes and 70 Mountain/Rock Climbing trivia questions.
1.
  Big Wall Climbing    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This quiz will test your knowledge on the sport of big wall climbing around the world.
Tough, 10 Qns, AmonAmarth, Dec 27 07
Tough
AmonAmarth
450 plays
2.
  Rock Climbing in the UK    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Think that you know about climbing? Well, think again! How much do you know about climbing in the United Kingdom?
Tough, 10 Qns, togtog, Aug 09 07
Tough
togtog
402 plays
3.
  Rock Climbing Terms    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Okay, so you can climb it, but do you know the names of your gear? What about grading systems in other countries? See if you're a great sport climber or just fooling around.
Average, 10 Qns, Slackerb, Nov 22 17
Average
Slackerb
920 plays
4.
  Rock Climbing Basics    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
You have decided to try out the sport of rock climbing. Prepare for your first climbing adventure.
Average, 10 Qns, Pythagoras6, Oct 23 21
Average
Pythagoras6
Oct 23 21
979 plays
5.
  The World's Tallest Mountains    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a quiz about climbing the 14 8,000m peaks. They are all located in Nepal, China, and Pakistan.
Tough, 10 Qns, spazz7255, Dec 22 19
Tough
spazz7255
Dec 22 19
556 plays
6.
  Mountaineering    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
Test your knowledge on a variety of Mountaineering topics.
Tough, 10 Qns, Plumbus, Aug 26 05
Tough
Plumbus gold member
502 plays
7.
  Climbing Basics    
Multiple Choice
 10 Qns
This is a climbing basics quiz for all around climbers. It covers traditional(trad), sport, and ice. Have fun!
Tough, 10 Qns, TheConstruct, Aug 28 21
Tough
TheConstruct
Aug 28 21
651 plays
trivia question Quick Question
Climbing a route successfully, placing protection as you go but never falling or resting on your protection, is called what?

From Quiz "Climbing Basics"




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Mountain/Rock Climbing Trivia Questions
1. Which was the first 8000 metre peak to be climbed?

From Quiz The World's Tallest Mountains

Answer: Annapurna

Annapurna (8,091m) was first climbed on June 3, 1950, by a French team nearly three years before Everest was conquered. Shishapangma (8,027m) was the last of the fourteen 8,000m climbed. Its first ascent was in May 1964 by a Chinese team.

2. Which adjectival grade falls between hard very severe and extremely severe 1?

From Quiz Rock Climbing in the UK

Answer: There is no adjectival grade between HVS and E1

Some people think that the grades HVS (Hard Very Severe) and E1 (Extremely Severe 1) cover too broad a spectrum and would like to introduce an extra grade between the two grades. This theoretical grade is E0, but it doesn't actually exist.

3. Climbing a route successfully, placing protection as you go but never falling or resting on your protection, is called what?

From Quiz Climbing Basics

Answer: Redpointing

It is wise to find a low rated climb and redpoint it twice. After you do this, move up one rating and so on. This will raise your level until you are climbing 5.15s.

4. What does the term ATC, naming a common belay device, stand for?

From Quiz Rock Climbing Terms

Answer: Air Traffic Controller

ATC is also a plate style device wtih a loop connecting it to one's belay carabiner.

5. What is the second highest summit in the British Isles?

From Quiz Mountaineering

Answer: Ben Macdui

Ben MacDui is the second highest summit at 4,295ft, after Ben Nevis which is 4,406ft. They are both in Scotland.

6. Who was the first person to climb all 14 8,000 metre peaks in 1986?

From Quiz The World's Tallest Mountains

Answer: Reinhold Messner

He also achieved this feat without bottled oxygen. In fact, before his ascent of Everest in 1978, it was considered impossible to climb so high (equal to the cruising altitude of a jumbo jet) without the aid of supplementary oxygen. Reinhold and his partner Peter Habaler proved them wrong and made climbing history.

7. The technical grade of a British rock climb is used to describe what?

From Quiz Rock Climbing in the UK

Answer: How hard the hardest move on the climb is

In the UK, two grades are used to describe a climb. The adjectival grade describes the overall difficulty of the climb, including how much protection there is, how exposed the climb is, how long it is, how difficult it would be to escape from the route and how hard the moves are on the climb. The technical grade simply describes how hard the hardest move on the climb is (the crux of the climb).

8. What is an arete?

From Quiz Rock Climbing Terms

Answer: a vertical edge nearby a climb

Aretes are often classed as "out" of a climb, because they make it too easy.

9. Who is regarded as the father of British rock climbing?

From Quiz Mountaineering

Answer: W P Haskett-Smith

He climbed Napes Needle in June 1886. His route up Napes Needle is regarded as the first pure rock climb, since it was done to climb a particular route rather than as a way of reaching the summit.

10. He was the first American to climb all 14 8,000 metre peaks, and became the 12th person ever to achieve this feat when he climbed Annapurna in May 2005?

From Quiz The World's Tallest Mountains

Answer: Ed Viesturs

Ed Viesturs climbed all 14 highest peaks without the use of bottled oxygen, making him only the 5th person to do so.

11. What is God's own rock?

From Quiz Rock Climbing in the UK

Answer: Gritstone

Gritstone is a very hard form of sandstone, with very high friction and rounded holds. Routes tend to be quite short, but require a specialised climbing style, which uses the friction of the rock.

12. What is the climbing term for adding bolts to an established route?

From Quiz Climbing Basics

Answer: Retro bolting

If you are starting out do not place bolts.

13. What is the correct spelling of the d-shaped device with which you attach your belay device to your harness?

From Quiz Rock Climbing Terms

Answer: carabiner

Carabiners come in a wide variety of types. For optimum safe locking use a screw gates, and check that your carabiner is rated to carry the weight you intend to put on it. (carabiner and karabiner are alternate spellings of the same word)

14. Which nationality was Sir Edmund Hilary, the conqueror of Everest?

From Quiz Mountaineering

Answer: New Zealander

As the leader of the famous expedition to conquer Everest in 1953, Hilary was acclaimed as the first man to reach its summit. There is controversy now as to whether the man who was first to step on the summit was Edmund Hilary or Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.

15. What load releasing knot would be most beneficial to tie in the haul bag at the anchor?

From Quiz Big Wall Climbing

Answer: Munter mule

The Munter mule is basically a "Munter hitch" (a hitch that can be used to belay, rappel, etc.) that has been tied off with a mule knot. It comes in handy when the belayer must lower the bag out for the next haul.

16. Sometimes, climbers want to climb on sea cliffs, but first of all they have to get down to the bottom. How would climbers in the United Kingdom usually do this?

From Quiz Rock Climbing in the UK

Answer: They would abseil

Although climbers may sometimes scramble down to the bottom of a rock climb, they usually wouldn't actually down climb. Abseiling is the word that is used in the UK to describe rappeling.

17. The rock climbing instructor teaches you a knot. This knot is named for its shape and is the only knot that you are allowed to use to tie into a climbing route. What is this super safe knot called?

From Quiz Rock Climbing Basics

Answer: Double Figure 8

The Double Figure 8 knot applies pressure evenly throughout. When tied properly, this knot cannot slip through. The prussik is a knot also used in climbing, but it is used for ascending. (this is also known as a Figure 8 follow through with a Trace)

18. If a device says 2KN, how much weight is it safely rated to carry (in kilograms)?

From Quiz Rock Climbing Terms

Answer: 200kg

Remember that when you fall you place a lot more than your own bodyweight on a device. Don't try to climb on a device rated to only carry your weight and no more.

19. Reinhold Messner was one half of the pair who climbed Everest in 1978 without using artificially supplied oxygen. These were the first men to do so. Who was his partner?

From Quiz Mountaineering

Answer: Peter Habeler & Habeler & Habler & Peter Habler

On their descent from the summit both men were affected by the oxygen deprivation and could not remember much of it. As part of their training, they climbed together the North Face of the Eiger in about 10 hours.

20. A slab of rock pasted to a smooth rock wall is commonly referred to as what?

From Quiz Big Wall Climbing

Answer: A flake

There's nothing scarier than climbing, and protecting yourself behind a dubious flake. Though sometimes, that's all you get.

21. Which climbing calls would usually be used in the United Kingdom when a climber leads a climb?

From Quiz Rock Climbing in the UK

Answer: Climb when ready, climbing, safe

"Climb when ready" is used by the second to say that they have the leader on belay and are ready for you to climb. "Climbing" is used by the leader to say that they have started to climb. "Safe" is used by the leader to say that they have reached the end of the pitch, have tied themselves off, and the second can now take them off belay.

22. The rock climbing instructor shows you an object called a gri gri. The gri gri comes equipped with a brake system. How does the brake engage on this device?

From Quiz Rock Climbing Basics

Answer: Quick loading of the rope

Slow loading of the rope will prevent the brake from engaging, resulting in a fall. Pushing the handle down releases the brake. Only a sharp tug on the rope will lock the brake.

23. What is an ice climbing move where you throw your leg over your arm to extend your reach for axe placement?

From Quiz Climbing Basics

Answer: Figure 4

This move can also be used in bouldering.

24. Which device is self-locking?

From Quiz Rock Climbing Terms

Answer: Grigri

Grigris are a safer option for inexperienced belayers when belaying on a toprope, but more complex to set up. A better option is to use an experienced belayer that you trust.

25. Who was the first man to solo climb the North Face of the Eiger, a 13,025 ft. mountain in the Swiss Alps?

From Quiz Mountaineering

Answer: Michel Darbellay

In 1963, Darbellay performed this audacious solo climb of one the most formidable peaks. Considering the standard of equipment used then compared to that available today, it was an outstanding achievement. Since 1935, over fifty climbers have died attempting the north face.

26. Statistically, which is the most deadly 8,000 metre peak?

From Quiz The World's Tallest Mountains

Answer: Annapurna

Annapurna has a fatality to summit ratio of approximately 40%. Nanga Parbat is statistically the seconed most deadly with a fatality rate of 28% (77% before 1990). K2 is third with roughly 27%. Everest is relatively safe with 9%. The reason Annapurna is such a treacherous climb is the heavy snow accumulation and extreme avalanche danger. K2 and others are arguably still a more technical climb. Cho Oyu is known as one of the most accessible and 'easiest' climbs of the lot.

27. Which climber made the incredible feat of free-climbing both "The Nose" and "Freerider" on El Capitan in a single day?

From Quiz Big Wall Climbing

Answer: Tommy Caldwell

Not only did Tommy Caldwell free-climb over 6000' of climbing in under 24 hours (including several pitches of 5.12 and 5.13), but so did his wife Beth Rodden. Free-climbing, not to be confused with free-soloing, means that the climber climbs through every move of every pitch in a single push without falling, and without the assistance of aid-climbing techniques.

28. How could you stop your rock boots from smelling?

From Quiz Rock Climbing in the UK

Answer: You can never stop that pungent odor of rubber and sweat

Many suggestions have been made for how you can reduce the smell of your sweaty rock climbing boots. However, none of the solutions ever gets rid of the smell completely.

29. A hold that is rounded and normally held on to with a flat open hand is what?

From Quiz Climbing Basics

Answer: Sloper

Practice open hand techniques. Using open hand as much as possible will save your strength so you will have more in reserve when you need it.

30. What does the call "take!" mean?

From Quiz Rock Climbing Terms

Answer: Take in the rope, as the climber is falling or in danger of falling

"Take" and "safe" can sound very similar if the sound quality is bad. Always make sure you know which your climber is yelling before unclipping.

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