NewsTracker Answers for week of Feb. 24, 2014

Q: Nepal has decided to deploy a team of security officials at the Mount Everest base camp, in a bid to avert brawls like one that happened last year between Sherpa and European climbers. Where is the small Asian nation of Nepal?

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Q: The highest mountain on Earth, Mount Everest straddles the border of Nepal and its northern neighbor . . .

A. Afghanistan

B. Bangladesh

C. China

D. Dagestan


C. Nepal is sandwiched between the world's two most populous nations – China to the north and India on the south, east and west. Nepal is the world's 93rd largest country by land mass and the 41st most populous country with about 27 million people.


Q: More than 3,000 people have scaled Mount Everest since it it was first conquered by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary in 1953. Norgay was a Sherpa mountaineer from Nepal. Where did Hillary come from?

A. Australia

B. Britain

C. Canada

D. New Zealand


D. New Zealand climber Hillary and Norgay said they reached the summit in a team effort by the British-led, 15-member climbing expedition and the more than 400 men who supported the effort. Norgay revealed a few years later that Hillary had put his foot on the summit first.


Q: Nepal has eight of the world's ten tallest mountains. These peaks are in which mountain range?

A. Alps

B. Himalayas

C. Caucasus

D. Urals


B. Himalayan climbing expeditions bring much needed tourist cash to Nepal, one of the world's poorest nations. A major source of income for the nation's impoverished families is money sent back from nearly 2 million absentee workers living abroad.


Q: Across Nepal, young men are leaving their poor towns and villages to find work abroad. Many have gone to work in Qatar, one of the world's richest nations. Qatar is located in . . .

A. Asia

B. Persian Gulf

C. Arabian Peninsula

D. All of the above


D. Migrant workers make up about 94 percent of the total workforce in Qatar, which is preparing to host the 2022 World Cup soccer matches. Qatar has been accused of worker abuses, including forced labor, lack of payment and lack of drinking water. Hundreds of workers from Nepal and India have died in Qatar over the last two years