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Quiz about A Fit of Peak
Quiz about A Fit of Peak

A Fit of Peak Trivia Quiz


Hill bagging is the hobby (or obsession) with ascend all the hills on a certain list, or that fit certain criteria. Here is a quiz about some of the lists of hills in the UK.

A multiple-choice quiz by paper_aero. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
paper_aero
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
298,946
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Tough
Avg Score
5 / 10
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Question 1 of 10
1. Which of the following collections of peaks consists solely of Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet in height? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. Maybe the best known tick list of hills in England are the 214 hills described in a 7 volume 'Pictorial Guide to the Lake District'. The books were first published between 1955 and 1966. How are the hills included in them collectively known? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Not all peak bagging involves long lists of hills. There are three hills in North Yorkshire, all close together and over the 2,000 feet in height, known, reasonably enough, as the "Yorkshire Three Peaks". Which of the following hills is not one of the three peaks? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. Another list of Scottish mountains has, as its first requirement, that they lie south of the highlands, and secondly, that they are over 2,000 feet in height. Named after the person who first listed these, what are they called? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Expanding our area beyond Scotland again, which list of hills is described as any hill in the Britain, "of any height with a drop of 150 meters on all sides"? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Which list of Scottish hills is defined as "all those hills of height between 2500ft and 3000ft with a drop of at least 500ft between each listed hill and any adjacent higher one."? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. British hills (excluding Scotland) over 2,000 feet in height with a drop all round of 100 feet/30 meters are entries on which list? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. "A mountain or hill in England, Wales or the Isle of Man, that exceeds 500 metres in height, but is below 2000ft in altitude; it must be separated from adjacent tops by a height difference of at least 30 metres on all sides". Which hills are being described here? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Back to Scotland, which hills fit the following requirements: between 2,000 and 2,500 feet high with a 500 feet drop on all sides? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Named after the couple who first listed them, which list of hills in England and Wales consists of all those over 2,000 feet in height with a drop of 50 feet on all sides? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Which of the following collections of peaks consists solely of Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet in height?

Answer: Munros

The Munros are named after Sir Hugh Munro who first attempted to classify them. The original list was of those mountains believed at the time to be over 3,000 feet in height. This was further sub-divided into stand alone mountains (which have become known as Munros) and summits(or Munro tops). Although the height of a summit can be decided and clarified by resurveying it falls to the 'Scottish Mountaineering Club' (SMC) to decide if a peak is a Munro or a Munro top. When Sir Hugh first produced his list there were 283 Munros and a further 255 tops. As of 2008 there are 284 Munros and 277 Munro Tops. By the summer of 2003 the SMC had recorded over 3,000 people s having climbed all the Munros, or 'compleated'. More may have done so without being recorded by the SMC. The use of compleated is used by the "as a nod both to Izaak Walton's book 'The Compleat Angler', and a compliment to another noteworthy sport - Munro-bagging. " , at least so it says on the SMC's website. The southernmost Munro (and at time of writing, the only one I have climbed) is Ben Lomond on the eastern shore of Loch Lomond.
There are also 'Furth Munros', this is a term used for hills in England, Wales and Ireland that would qualify as Munros if they were in Scotland.
To the best of my knowledge there are no classifications of hills entitled McDonalds, Murdochs or Mackenzies.
2. Maybe the best known tick list of hills in England are the 214 hills described in a 7 volume 'Pictorial Guide to the Lake District'. The books were first published between 1955 and 1966. How are the hills included in them collectively known?

Answer: Wainwrights

Alfred Wainwright, spent his working life as employed by borough councils in Lancashire. He was also skilled in drawing and wrote his guides in the 1950s and 60s with highly detailed but clear sketches.
The simple definition of a Wainwright (as a hill), is whether or not it has a chapter written about it by Alfred Wainwright. If it has, it is a Wainwright, if not it isn't. At the beginning of the 21st century the books were being revised by Trevor Jesty to incorporate up to date information about paths and routes, plus parking, which wasn't an issue for the original author. (He used buses in the main.) In August 2008, a six year old was recorded as being the youngest person (to date) to have completed all 214 Wainwrights.
3. Not all peak bagging involves long lists of hills. There are three hills in North Yorkshire, all close together and over the 2,000 feet in height, known, reasonably enough, as the "Yorkshire Three Peaks". Which of the following hills is not one of the three peaks?

Answer: Mam Tor

The challenge is to climb all three in 12 hours walking between them, starting and finishing at Horton-in-Ribblesdale. The route is approximately 25 miles with lots of uphill walking. For those who would prefer to view them from a distance instead, excellent views of all three of the hills may be had from the vicinity of Ribblehead viaduct, which is worth visiting in its own right.

This may be done by the simple method of getting of the train at Ribblehead station, walking a short distance and then retiring to the pub conveniently situated opposite the turning to the station whilst awaiting your return train.

The spurious answer, Mam Tor, is a hill in the Peak District in Derbyshire.
4. Another list of Scottish mountains has, as its first requirement, that they lie south of the highlands, and secondly, that they are over 2,000 feet in height. Named after the person who first listed these, what are they called?

Answer: Donalds

This list was originally constructed by Percy Donald. There is also a more complex requirement concerning how much of a drop on all sides there needs to be depending on how near the next high point is. There are 89 of these, of which 2 are in England! To be more precise the summits are in England but a significant portion of the mountain is in Scotland.

There are also Donald Tops (51 of them) which are summits where the height qualification is achieved but fail the formula concerning how much of a drop is required, "but are considered significantly important enough for inclusion" to quote the UK Mountain Database website.
5. Expanding our area beyond Scotland again, which list of hills is described as any hill in the Britain, "of any height with a drop of 150 meters on all sides"?

Answer: Marilyns

Marilyns are named as a contrast to the Scottish Munroes, (Marilyn Munroe). There is a further category of sub-Marilyns of hills which just fail (by no more than 10 meters) to qualify as Marilyns. There 335 Marilyns in England and Wales and a further 5 on the Isle of Man.

Not forgetting over 1,200 in Scotland and 455 in Ireland (north and south). Bridgets are hills worth climbing but not appearing on any other list. Clements and Yeamans are still further named lists of hills.
6. Which list of Scottish hills is defined as "all those hills of height between 2500ft and 3000ft with a drop of at least 500ft between each listed hill and any adjacent higher one."?

Answer: Corbetts

The Corbetts are named after John Rooke Corbett who compiled the original list in the first half of the 20th century. The current list is largely unchanged as it is very specific about the qualifications required for a summit to be a Corbett. The only amendments are due to more accurate modern surveying results.

The 'Scottish Mountaineering Club' official list has a total of 219 Corbetts as of October 2008. There are also Corbett Tops to consider.
7. British hills (excluding Scotland) over 2,000 feet in height with a drop all round of 100 feet/30 meters are entries on which list?

Answer: Hewitts

The name is an acronym, "Hills in England, Wales and Ireland over Two Thousand feet". In addition there are Sub-hewitts which fail one or other measurement by no more than 10 meters. As of October 2008 there are 528 Hewitts, 178 in England, 138 in Wales and 212 in Ireland. The Birketts are all Lake District hills over 1,000 feet in height, as listed by Bill Birkett.
8. "A mountain or hill in England, Wales or the Isle of Man, that exceeds 500 metres in height, but is below 2000ft in altitude; it must be separated from adjacent tops by a height difference of at least 30 metres on all sides". Which hills are being described here?

Answer: Deweys

A typical mixture of imperial and metric measurements. Probably because the traditional distinction between a mountain and hill in the UK has been a height of over 2,000 feet. The hills were originally compiled as a list by Micheal Dewey, and had no upper bound on height, however since those over 2,000 feet and complying with the height difference are all Hewitts, the convention is to consider only those under this height as Deweys.

The other options are names snatched from the ether.
9. Back to Scotland, which hills fit the following requirements: between 2,000 and 2,500 feet high with a 500 feet drop on all sides?

Answer: Grahams

The Grahams were first listed by Fiona Graham and there are 224 of them.The Grahams are also known as lesser Corbetts. There is a list of Murdos, these are Scottish mountains over 3,000 feet high with a drop of 100 feet. I have never heard of a list of Frasers or Keiths.
10. Named after the couple who first listed them, which list of hills in England and Wales consists of all those over 2,000 feet in height with a drop of 50 feet on all sides?

Answer: Nuttalls

John and Anne Nuttall listed these in their two volumes 'The Mountains of England and Wales". Over 400 summits are listed in these volumes. One of the most notable summits included on this list is Pillar Rock, which requires a rock climb to ascend and may hence be inaccessible for some hill walkers. (Myself for instance.)
Source: Author paper_aero

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