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Mount Everest was named after

  1. Sir Peter Everest

  2. Sir George Everest

  3. Sir Elvin Everest

  4. Sir Bush Everest
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest, who was the Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843. Although Everest personally opposed the naming (preferring local names), his successor Andrew Waugh proposed the name in 1865 to honor his contributions to the Great Trigonometric Survey of India that mapped the subcontinent.

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