Nepal to deploy security on Mount Everest

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?

Circle the area on this map

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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

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

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

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

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