Geography

Question 1

Term for a conical volcano that has been gradually built up by layers of rock

Answer 1

Stratovolcano

Question 2

Term for a low-profile volcano built up over time by broad sheets of low viscosity lava

Answer 2

Shield volcano

Question 3

Southernmost active volcano in the world, found in Antarctica

Answer 3

Mount Erebus

Question 4

Location of Ross Island, on which Mount Erebus sits

Answer 4

Antarctica

Question 5

Volcano which takes its name for, the primordial personification of darkness in Greek mythology

Answer 5

Mount Erebus

Question 6

Volcano on Ross Island, whose northeast slope is known as “Fang Ridge”

Answer 6

Mount Erebus

Question 7

Volcano into which a 1979 Air New Zealand jet crashed into, killing 257 people

Answer 7

Mount Erebus

Question 8

Stratovolcano in eastern Sicily that plays a significant role in ancient Greek myth

Answer 8

Mount Etna

Question 9

Location of Mount Etna

Answer 9

Catania, a town in eastern Sicily

Question 10

Mountain under which Zeus trapped the monster Typhon and the site of Hephaestus’ forges

Answer 10

Mount Etna

Question 11

Volcano whose most recent eruption was in 2015. Earlier eruptions occurred in 1928, destroying the village of Mascali, and 1669, when it was thought to have gone dormant

Answer 11

Mount Etna

Question 12

Volcano with a large depression on the side known as Valle del Bove or “Valley of the Ox”

Answer 12

Mount Etna

Question 13

Japanese island on which Mount Fuji is situated

Answer 13

Honshu

Question 14

The Three Holy Mountains of Japan

Answer 14

Mount Fuji, Mount Haku, and Mount Tate

Question 15

Volcano which last erupted in December 1707 during the lava-less Hoei eruption

Answer 15

Mount Fuji

Question 16

Mountain off whose slope the Aokigahara, or “Suicide Forest” is found

Answer 16

Mount Fuji

Question 17

Common name for Aokigahara, a geographical feature on Honshu, Japan

Answer 17

Suicide Forest

Question 18

Shield volcano that is the most active volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii

Answer 18

Kilauea

Question 19

Hawaiian volcano whose name means “spewing” or “spreading” in the native language

Answer 19

Kilauea

Question 20

Volcano that is the home of the fire goddess Pele in Hawaiian mythology

Answer 20

Kilauea

Question 21

Volcano whose three primary craters are Halema’uma’u Crater, Pu’u Crater, and Pu’u ‘O’ o Crater

Answer 21

Kilauea

Question 22

Volcano covered by the Ka’u Desert, a plain of dried lava and volcanic ash

Answer 22

Kilauea

Question 23

Mountain whose caldera is the site of the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory

Answer 23

Kilauea

Question 24

The two Indonesian islands between which Krakatoa lies

Answer 24

Sumatra and Java

Question 25

Volcano island in the Sunda Strait of the Pacific Ring of Fire

Answer 25

Krakatoa

Question 26

Year in which Krakatoa erupted, killing more than 35,000 people and believed to have produced the loudest sound ever

Answer 26

1883

Question 27

Volcano that erupted in 1883, killing more than 35,000 people and believed to have produced the loudest sound ever

Answer 27

Krakatoa

Question 28

Volcano that, prior to a massive eruption, had three separate peaks: Perboewetan (destroyed), Rakata (extant), and Danan (almost destroyed)

Answer 28

Krakatoa

Question 29

New island formed in 1927 by the continued activity of Krakatoa

Answer 29

Anak Krakatau (“Child of Krakatoa”)

Question 30

Shield volcano that is the most massive above-sea volcano on Earth

Answer 30

Mauna Loa

Question 31

Dormant volcano that is the tallest mountain in Hawaii, and taller than Mount Everest when measured from base to summit

Answer 31

Mauna Kea

Question 32

The two volcanoes that form the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, established in 1916 by Woodrow Wilson

Answer 32

Kilauea, Mauna Loa

Question 33

Volcano that erupted in 1942, four months after the attack on Pearl Harbour, causing the U.S. government to gag the press from reporting on it

Answer 33

Mauna Loa

Question 34

Stratovolcano in the Zambales Mountains on the eastern coast of Luzon

Answer 34

Mount Pinatubo

Question 35

Location of Mount Pinatube and the Zambales Mountains

Answer 35

Eastern coast of Luzon in the Philippines

Question 36

Volcano whose 1991 eruption killed at least 800 people and caused the global temperature to briefly decrease by a full degree Fahrenheit due to the ejection of aerosols and sulfurique acid

Answer 36

Mount Pinatubo

Question 37

Volcano whose monsoon rains, in the aftermath of its 1991 eruption, created a namesake lake in its resulting crater

Answer 37

Mount Pinatubo

Question 38

Indigenous peoples granted domain over Mount Pinatubo in 2010

Answer 38

Aeta people

Question 39

Volcano over which the indigenous Aeta people were formally granted domain in 2010

Answer 39

Mount Pinatubo

Question 40

Stratovolcano that is the highest peak in the Cascades and in the state of Washington

Answer 40

Mount Rainier

Question 41

Volcano whose principal peaks are Columbia Crest (the tallest), Point Success, and Liberty Cap; Little Tacoma Peak is a remnant of a much older, since-eroded mountain

Answer 41

Mount Rainier

Question 42

Volcano about 50 miles southeast of Seattle that has not erupted since the mid-to-late nineteenth century

Answer 42

Mount Rainier

Question 43

Volcano on which the Nisqually Glacier tracks climate change, the Emmons Glacier is the largest by area in the contiguous U.S., and the Carbon Glacier is the largest by volume

Answer 43

Mount Rainier

Question 44

Volcano in the Cascades of Washington, about 100 miles south of Seattle and about 50 miles north of Portland

Answer 44

Mount Saint Helens

Question 45

Volcano which last erupted in May 1980, killing 57 people in the most devastating volcano eruption in U.S. history

Answer 45

Mount Saint Helens

Question 46

Date on which Mount Saint Helens erupted, killing 57 people in the most devastating U.S. volcanic eruption

Answer 46

18 May, 1980

Question 47

Innkeeper who refused to evacuate from Mount Saint Helens during its 1980 eruption

Answer 47

Harry Truman

Question 48

Term for mudflows of pyroclastic materials down the slope of a volcano

Answer 48

Lahar

Question 49

Location of Mount Vesuvius

Answer 49

Gulf of Naples in Campania, south-central Italy

Question 50

The only active volcano in mainland Europe, that last erupted in 1944

Answer 50

Mount Vesuvius

Question 51

The three Roman cities buried by Vesuvius in 79 AD

Answer 51

Pompei, Herculaneum, Stabiae

Question 52

Author who wrote the only surviving eyewitness accounts of the 79 AD eruption of Mount Vesuvius, to Tacitus

Answer 52

Pliny the Elder

Question 53

Year in which the Summer Olympics were relocated from Rome to London after a surprise eruption of Mount Vesuvius

Answer 53

1908

Question 54

Longest river in North America

Answer 54

The Mississippi River

Question 55

River referred to by Abraham Lincoln as “the father of waters”, forming portions of ten state borders

Answer 55

The Mississippi River

Question 56

River beginning at Lake Itasca, Minnesota and flowing 2,340 miles to the Gulf of Mexico

Answer 56

The Mississippi River

Question 57

River which picks up numerous major tributaries including the Illinois, Missouri, Ohio, Arkansas, and Red Rivers

Answer 57

The Mississippi River

Question 58

River flowing past numerous major cities including Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans

Answer 58

The Mississippi River

Question 59

Location of the beginning of the Mississippi River

Answer 59

Lake Itaska, Minnesota

Question 60

River beginning in Rocky Mountain National Park, running southwest for 1,450 miles to the Gulf of California in northwest Mexico

Answer 60

The Colorado River

Question 61

River which forms numerous canyons alongs it’s length, notably the Grand Canyon in Arizona

Answer 61

The Colorado River

Question 62

River with the Hoover Dam near Las Vegas and the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona

Answer 62

The Colorado River

Question 63

The two lakes formed by the Hoover Dam and Glen Canyon Dam, respectively; dams of the Colorado River

Answer 63

Lake Mead, Lake Powell

Question 64

River flowing 981 miles through a significant industrial region of the central U.S.

Answer 64

The Ohio River

Question 65

River historically seen as the border between the northern and southern U.S.

Answer 65

The Ohio River

Question 66

River formed in downtown Pittsburgh by the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers

Answer 66

The Ohio River

Question 67

The two rivers that form the confluence of the Ohio River

Answer 67

Allegheny River, Monongehala River

Question 68

River flowing past Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, and Evansville, before emptying into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois

Answer 68

The Ohio River

Question 69

River with major tributaries including the Kanawha, Kentucky, Tennessee, Wabash, and Cumberland Rivers

Answer 69

The Ohio River