Here are today’s questions. Answers will be published tomorrow. The theme runs from Mon-Thu:

1. What volcano, on the northern end of the French territory of Martinique, had a violent eruption in 2019 that killed about 30,000 people in the town of Saint-Pierre almost instantly?
2. Mount Vesuvius, best remembered for its violent 79CE eruption that destroyed Pompeii and Herculaneum, is located in which gulf in Italy?
3. What island is nicknamed “Lighthouse of the Mediterranean” due to its active volcano? It also features at the end of a popular 1864 novel.
4. Capable of continent-level devastation, what word describes the Yellowstone Caldera, Lake Taupo in New Zealand, Lake Toba in Indonesia, and the Ngorongoro crater in Tanzania?
5. [Theme: 2 of 4] What word refers to a point inside a sphere that is equidistant from all the points on its surface?

Here are the answers to 2026: Week 8, Quiz 1:

1. Google Wave
2. Google Knol
3. Google Latitude
4. Orkut
5. Theme – will be revealed on Friday