Fire In The Sky Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mount Hood

The Hood to Coast Relay is held every year with runners racing on foot from Mt. Hood at Timberlake Lodge to Seaside, Oregon.
Mount Hood is the highest point in Oregon at 11,249 ft (3,427.7 m) high. Mount Hood is a stratovolcano which is a type of composite or group of volcanos.

Answer: Luzon

Mount Pinatubo is a stratovolcano which erupted in June of 1991 killing over 800 people. Luzon is also the largest island in the Philippines. The capital of the Philippines, Manila, is also located on Luzon. Mount Pinatubo is 4,875 ft (1,486 m) high.

Answer: Heard Island

Heard Island is located in the Indian Ocean, closer to Antarctica than to Madagascar. The island was discovered by Peter Kemp, a British sailor, in 1833. Mawson Peak, the highest part of Big Ben, is 9,005 ft (2,745 m) high and it is quite active, erupting frequently. The island was discovered by Captain John Heard in 1853.

Answer: Colombia

Mount Ruiz is 80 miles (229 km) west of Bogota, near Armero. At 17,457 ft (5,321 m) high, it is the highest active volcano in Colombia. Lahar flooding has caused the most deaths from its eruptions. Lahar flooding is a mixture of water and mud resulting form the heat generated from the eruptions.

Answer: Canary Islands

When the geologist Leopold von Buch visited Tenerife, he visited Taburiente caldera. Caldera is the Spanish word for cauldron and was introduced to the English language as a geological term due to his visit. It is 13,123 ft (4000 m) high and is the only active volcano of three on the island.
La Palma has Sister City status with El Dorado Hills, California, USA.

Answer: True

It is the youngest volcano of the Hawaiian hotspot region. It is also one of the world's most active volcanoes. It has a large caldera with a central crater called Halemaʻumaʻu, which is reputed to be the home of the fire goddess Pele. Kilauea is 4,091 ft (1,247 m) high.

Answer: Barren Island

It is the only active stratovolcano in South Asia. It is part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian union territory. The first recorded eruption of Barren Island was around 1787 and has erupted over ten times so far. The volcano is 1,161 ft (354 m) high.

Answer: Washington, Skamania County

Mount St. Helens is also known as Lawetlat'la to the indigenous peoples of the Cowlitz and Loowit to the Klickitat tribes. The Mount St. Helens National Monument was created to preserve and study the volcano after the 1980 eruption. The stratovolcano is 8,365 ft (2,550 m) high.

Answer: Kyushu

The stratovolcano is located only 4.97 miles (8 km) east of Kagoshima. The volcano's activity has been recorded as far back as the 8th century. It is located in the northern half of Kagoshima Bay. Its caldera was formed about 22,000 years ago.

Sakurajima formed a new island in 1914 which is part of the Osumi Peninsula. The volcano is 3,665 ft (1,117 m) above sea level.

Answer: There are no active volcanoes

There are some still active in the UK dependencies. Mount Belinda, on Montagu island in the Weddell Sea of the coast of Antarctica, is the largest.
Snowdonia and the Lake District had enormous eruptions that occurred 450 million years ago.
Mount Michael, located on Saunders Island, was active in 2005. It may contain an active lake of lava, one of a very few to be found in the world.
The Great Britain region is free of active volcanoes because the tectonic plates are stable and inactive.