q11

[dubdobdee]

11.

i: Which volcano was explored by Dante?
ii: Which eruption brought the Olympiad to London?
iii: What was named after the commander of HMS Monarch?
iv: Where did the activities of Queen Mary necessitate a rescue operation by RIL?
v: Having entered via Snæfell, where did the professor’s party make its explosive exit?
vi: Which princess and warrior are joined by a saddle named after a stout conquistador?
vii: Which volcano was depicted in the death of a sexagenarian philosopher by Rosa?
viii: Which explosion is estimated to have generated around 180 decibels?
ix: Which eruption was probably witnessed by Columbus?
x: What volcanic glow was a magnet to Resolution?

Comments

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i: I thought this was Etna but see v so maybe Vesuvius except see vii?
v: is Etna (this is from Jules Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Snaefell is in Iceland)
vii: is this Vesuvius (Pliny the Elder was overcome by fumes because he tarried nearby taking scientific notes)
viii: is Krakatoa

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

other potential answers: st helens, terror and erebus (above mcmurdo sound in the antarctic), the one in martinique in 1910(?)

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

v I thought this was Stromboli?
vi Stout conquistador is obviously Cortez, because Keats, but my geography fails me.
vii I concur that this is Vesuvius.
viii ...which is not East of Java.
x As Resolution was an antarctic research vessel, is this Erebus?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

oh yes i forgot stromboli -- so i *is* etna (maybe)

actually keats names the wrong person in terms of "peak in darien" and gazing "with a wild surmise" -- this may affect the geography!

erebus is v likely in that case (terror may just be a mountain)

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

iii. is Mount Rainier in Washington state, my favourite (extinct?) volcano. Named after a British sea captain (later Admiral).

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

ii. I thought this was Etna? The 1908 Olympics were going to be in Rome, but the eruption of Etna meant they were moved to London.

^^^this was the only answer I knew on the first read through!!!

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

i think my head must be set to:
Q: a volcano in italy?
A: etna! or vesuvius! or etna!

[carsmilesteve.livejournal.com]

Have checked in The Giant Book Of The Olympics and it was, in fact, Vesuvius.