99 Volcanoes Of The World Trivia Questions with Answers
99 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which volcano forms the highest point of the North American mainland, at 5,636 metres?
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Pico de Orizaba
Which volcano is Mexico’s highest mountain, rising to about 5,636 metres?
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Pico de Orizaba
Which volcano formed the caldera now occupied by New Zealand’s Lake Taupō?
Answer
Taupō Volcano
Which volcano’s 1886 eruption buried the New Zealand settlement of Te Wairoa?
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Mount Tarawera
Which volcano is the highest peak in Iran, reaching approximately 5,610 metres?
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Mount Damavand
Which volcano is the world’s only currently active volcano known to erupt carbonatite lava?
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Ol Doinyo Lengai
What supervolcano caldera lies beneath Yellowstone National Park in the United States?
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Yellowstone Caldera
Which volcano created the dramatic basalt columns of Fingal’s Cave in Scotland?
Answer
Mull Volcano
Which volcano is famous for the 1963 eruption that killed thousands in Bali?
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Mount Agung
Which volcano is the world’s highest active volcano, rising 6,893 metres in the Andes?
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Ojos del Salado
Which volcano’s 1985 eruption caused the Armero tragedy in Colombia?
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Nevado del Ruiz
Which volcano destroyed the city of Saint-Pierre in Martinique in 1902?
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Mount Pelée
Which volcano’s 1815 eruption helped cause the global “Year Without a Summer”?
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Mount Tambora
Which volcano is Africa’s highest mountain and a dormant stratovolcano in Tanzania?
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Mount Kilimanjaro
Which volcano forms the highest point of the Galápagos Islands?
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Volcán Wolf
Which Icelandic volcano’s 2010 eruption disrupted European air travel with ash?
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Eyjafjallajökull
What is the tallest known volcano in the Solar System?
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Olympus Mons
Which volcano buried Pompeii under ash and pumice in AD 79?
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Mount Vesuvius
Which volcano erupted in 1991 and caused measurable global cooling?
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Mount Pinatubo
Which volcano produced the 1980 eruption that began with a massive north-flank landslide?
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Mount St. Helens