Tallest | MCQs

Explanation

Mount Everest is the Highest peak in the world.

It is located in Nepal.

It is present in the Himalayas range

The height of Mount Everest is 8,848.86m (29,032 feet).

It was named after George Everest in 1856

Additional information:

First time Mount Everest expedition in 1953

the first person to reach Mount Everest was:

• Sherpa Tenzing 
• Edmund Percival Hillary

The first man to climb Mount Everest twice was Nawang Gombu

The first Pakistani woman to scale Mount Everest is Samina Baig

the first blind man in the world to climb Mount Everest, Zhang Hong

Explanation

The tallest minaret in the world is the minaret of the Djamaa el Djazaïr in Algiers, Algeria.

which stands at 265 metres (870 ft).

The tallest minaret in the world built of bricks is the 73 metres (240 ft) tall Qutb Minar in Delhi, India

Explanation

The national tree of Pakistan is the deodar tree.

It also known as the Himalayan cedar.

The deodar’s scientific name is Cedrus deodara.

The deodar is a tall tree that can grow to be 40–50 meters tall, with trunks up to 3 meters in diameter.

The wood of the deodar is light, close-grained, and rot-resistant.

The deodar’s name comes from Sanskrit and means “wood of the god”.

Explanation

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the tallest living man in the world (between 1982 and 1998), was Pakistan's Mohammad Alam Channa.