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Jan 15, 2008 21:56 EST

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9. Sir Edmund Hillary, who died on Friday, was the first man to climb Mount Everest. When did he do it?
1950
1958(you say this is the correct answer)
1953 (this is actually the correct answer)

Robin

Several readers noticed that we had the wrong answer on our own news quiz on reuters.co.uk. We fixed it: GBU Editor

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Jan 31, 2008
8:43 am EST

[...] They have published my correction, nice one!, on their ‘Good The Bad & the Ugly’ blog (all the editorial mistakes). [...]

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