NewsTracker Answers for week of Dec. 04, 2017

Q: Scores of voters walked for hours across narrow mountain ridges to vote Sunday in Nepal’s first parliamentary elections since 2006.  Where is the small nation of Nepal?

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Q: The trekking voters were members of an ethnic group known as skilled mountaineers who are famous for guiding Western adventurers to difficult summits. What is the name of this mountain-dwelling group?

A. Anasazi

B. Highlanders

C. Montagnards

D. Sherpas

D. Sherpas are highly regarded as elite mountaineers and experts. It was a Sherpa, Tenzing Norgay, and New Zealander Edmund Hillary who first reached the summit of the world’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmatha.

Q: Mount Everest and the other high peaks in Nepal are part of which mountain range?

A. Alps

B. Balkans

C. Himalayas

D. Urals

C. The Himalayan range has many of the Earth's highest peaks,  and it was formed by tectonic plates crashing into each other. Nepal has eight of the world’s ten tallest mountains.

Q: While ­Nepal’s neighbors have experienced decades of rapid growth, corruption and instability have stalled development in the tiny Himalayan nation. What fast-growing nation borders Nepal on the east, south and west?

A. China

B. India

C. Myanmar

D. All of the above

B. Nepal is sandwiched between the rapidly expanding economies of the world’s two most populous nations. China borders it to the north and India wraps around the east, south and west. Many Sherpas hope Nepal’s transition from a monarchy to a republic will bring them services like power, health care and education.

Q: Sherpas were among the 2 million Nepalis in the hills and mountains who voted Sunday in the first phase of elections. On Thursday, people vote in the cities, including the capital ...

A. Kathmandu

B. Kandahar

C. Kolkata

D. Kyoto

A. Kathmandu also is the largest city in Nepal with 2 million people in the city and 6 million in the urban agglomeration that surrounds it. Nepal has a total population of about 29 million people.