Q 01/05

Which volcano, one of the most active in the world, towers over the Sicilian city of Catania?

A) Mount Vesuvius

B) Mount Etna

C) Stromboli

D) Monte Amiata

Answer · why

B) Mount Etna

Mount Etna erupts so often that its height keeps changing; in 1669 its lava destroyed a string of villages and flowed on to Catania itself.

Q 02/05

Which Roman city was buried by a volcanic eruption in 79 AD and unearthed by digs that began in the 18th century?

A) Capua

B) Pompeii

C) Naples

D) Ostia

Answer · why

B) Pompeii

Pompeii lay under up to six metres of ash and debris; the excavations that began there in the mid-1700s are often counted as the birth of modern archa...

Q 03/05

The Ring of Fire is a horseshoe-shaped zone of volcanic and seismic activity surrounding which ocean?

A) Pacific Ocean

B) Indian Ocean

C) Atlantic Ocean

D) Arctic Ocean

Answer · why

A) Pacific Ocean

The Pacific Ocean's rim is where ocean plates dive beneath their neighbours, which lines it with volcanoes and produces about 90% of the world's earth...

Q 04/05

Which volcano towers over the Bay of Naples?

A) Mount Vesuvius

B) Mount Etna

C) Mount Stromboli

D) Vulcano

Answer · why

A) Mount Vesuvius

Mount Vesuvius last erupted in March 1944, during the Second World War; with millions of people living around it, it is ranked among the world's most ...

Q 05/05

Which Hawaiian volcano is the largest active volcano on Earth by volume?

A) Kilauea

B) Haleakala

C) Mauna Loa

D) Mauna Kea

Answer · why

C) Mauna Loa

Mauna Loa covers half of the island of Hawaii and is so massive that it has pressed the sea floor beneath it down by about 8 km.