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January 16th, 2008

The wrong answer…

Posted by: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Editor
Tags: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

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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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