FREE COMPETITIONS, GREAT PRIZES, QUIZ QUESTIONS

1. With what momentous event in history is the word mountain associated in respect of radical and even extremist politics?
   French Revolution 1789 (la Montagne, topmost benches of the National Assembly where the Jacobins sat).
   
   
2. An alternative name in Britain for the mountain ash?
   Rowan, sorbus aucuparia
   
   
3. Mountain dew is an expression used to name what drink?
   Scotch whisky especially if illicitly distilled
   
   
4. Where would one find the Delectable Mountains?
   In Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress (a range from which the Celestial City is visible)
   
   
5. Who, according to a well-known phrase, must go the mountain if the mountain will not come to him?
   Muhammed
   
   
6. Why according to old legend was the Magnetic Mountain such a danger to shipping?
   Drew out any metal nails
   
   
7. What is the English equivalent of the French expression faire d'une mouche un éléphant?
   Make a mountain out of a molehill
   
   
8. Where are the Bungle Bungle Mountains?
   In the plain of the Ord River in the Kimberley region of Western Australia: part of the Purnululu National Park (Purnululu appears to be the Aborigine word for sandstone: no one knows how the Bungle Bungles got their name in the 1930s. Presumably some white geezer who could drink better than he could think)
   
   
9. The mountains look on Marathon -
   And Marathon looks on the sea;
   And musing there an hour alone
   I dream'd that Greece might still be free.
   Who was the poet (who eventually died fighting to free Greece)?
   Byron, lines from Don Juan
   
   
10. Where are the Neptune Mountains (or the Neptune Range)?
    Part of the Pensacola Mountains of Antarctica