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GK QUESTION#1295

Before being renamed, Mount Everest was simply known as ______.

  1. APeak IX
  2. BPeak XVCorrect answer
  3. CPeak XII
  4. DPeak VI
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B. Peak XV

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Peak XV. Mount Everest is a peak in the Himalayan mountain range. It is located between Nepal and Tibet. The mountain was named after George Everest, a former Surveyor General of India.

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