Trivia Question of the Day

[Wodrick]

An American actress no idea who.

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

Correct Wodders, she was famous in the Twenties. Anyone care to guess her name?

[ExSp33db1rd]

WIKI .......... On 15 July 1941, Cheshire married the American actress Constance Binney (21 years his senior), but the marriage was short-lived and childless. Their divorce was ratified in January 1951.[124]

On 5 April 1959, in Bombay's Roman Catholic Cathedral, he married Sue Ryder, also a Roman Catholic convert and humanitarian. He and Baroness Ryder were one of the few couples who both held titles in their own right. They had two children, Jeromy and Elizabeth Cheshire, and lived in Cavendish, Suffolk.

[Mrs Ex-Ascot]

Correct Speedy.

As Lars got in first with Sue Ryder he gets the chance to confound us.

[larsssnowpharter]

Cheshire was always one of my boyhood heroes. When I was 13 I was returning from school in Somerset to Ireland and flew from Bristol to Dublin in a venerable DC3. Sitting beside me was none other than Leonard Cheshire VC. Of course I recognised him and was a bit overawed but he put me at ease and we had a good chat mostly focusing on my ambitions to fly and that my father was, at the time, flying Shackletons from Aden. In my late teens I worked a a volunteer at a Cheshire home.

Enough of that! What is the name of the smallest active volcano in the World?

[Opsboi]

Etna?

[larsssnowpharter]

Wrong continent.

[Boac]

Mrs Boac?

[Wodrick]

I'll see your Mrs BOAC and offer
SM currently 43kg and size 6 is too big

[Boac]

I regret to say you win.

[Ex-Ascot]

Is it a above ground or under the sea?

[larsssnowpharter]

It's not under the sea.

[Wodrick]

Pacific "ring of fire" ?

[bob2s]

Cuexcomate in Mexico

Cuexcomate Standing a diminutive 43 feet tall, Cuexcomate is commonly known as the world's smallest volcano.

[Opsboi]

Cuexcomate in Mexico

Cuexcomate Standing a diminutive 43 feet tall, Cuexcomate is commonly known as the world's smallest volcano.

More like a firework

[PHXPhlyer]

Geyser. Not a volcano.

Cuexcomate
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Coordinates: 19°04′14″N 98°14′07″W


Sinter cone built by Cuexcomate geyser

Staircase leading into the crater of Cuexcomate geyser

Layers in the crater walls
Cuexcomate (Spanish pronunciation: [kweks.koˈma.te]) is an inactive geyser in Puebla city, Puebla state, Mexico. The sinter cone that the geyser built up around its vent is 13 metres (43 ft) tall and has a diameter of 23 metres (75 ft). A central crater within the cone is up to 8 metres (26 ft) wide and 17 metres (56 ft) deep (extending 4 metres (13 ft) below ground level).[1]

Cuexcomate's name is derived from the Nahuatl term cuezcomatl "a large earthen jar used to store grain", because of its resemblance to such big baby. Historically, it has been cited that the geyser was formed before the 1064 eruption of the Popocatépetl, an active volcano and the second highest peak in Mexico, which likely activated geothermal spring circulation that cut upward through Mesozoic limestone and deposited the geyser and the springs around it. The geyser's rock composition is 99% calcite, differing thus from typical silica sinter deposits.[citation needed]

Cuexcomate has been mistakenly called 'the smallest volcano in the world' because of the popular belief that it was indeed a volcano, based only on the shape of the structure; however, it is not a volcano.[1] Today, there is a metal spiral staircase that allows tourists to descend into the excavated interior of the structure, where cultural events are occasionally done.


Contents
1 Characteristics
2 Description
3 History
4 Tourism
5 See also
6 References
Characteristics
Geyser Type: calcitic chemical deposit[citation needed]
Height: 13 metres (43 ft)
Crater Diameter: 8 metres (26 ft).
Base Exterior Diameter: 23 metres (75 ft).
Weight: approx. 400 tons.
Mode of formation: emanating geothermal waters with occasional high-pressured bursts
Description
A description of Cuexcomate from the year 1585 says:

"at one league from this city, close to the bridge that they call Cholula, there is in a large grassland... in circular shape, a rock of 6 or 7 estados high, at the top of which there is a great mouth as if it were made to hold a waterwheel. The which is very deep, and at the bottom of which there is foul smelling water, a very important thing to note: there they say that in the heathen days they threw in (indios) natives to be sacrificed to their idols."

[citation needed]

The crater of Cuexcomate is an empty cone of an extinct geyser.

History
Cuexcomate was formed, in an area that was to become the town of La Libertad, by hydrothermal circulation prior to the 1064 eruption of Popocatépetl. La Libertad was incorporated into the city of Puebla in 1943. On November 27, 1970, a plaque was placed to commemorate the founding of La Libertad around the sides of the Cuexcomate geyser.

It was said that in ancient times, the people of Puebla threw the bodies of suicide victims into the crater, because they did not deserve to be mourned or buried.

During this same time, the people living around the geyser were said to be 'children of the devil' or 'under the rule of the devil', because of Cuexcomate.

It is believed that of the various tunnels that cross under the city of Puebla, one runs from the hill of Loreto to the hill of San Juan (now the hill of La Paz) and from there travels down to the hill Cuexcomate, afterward crossing under the Atoyac river and ending in the Archaeological zone of Cholula and its pyramids.

Tourism
The geyser is found at the intersection of 2 Poniente (west) and 3 Norte (north), in the Colonia La Libertad, Puebla.

There are spiral metal stairs that allow one to descend to the interior of the crater.

PP

[larsssnowpharter]

Bob is correct that the place in Mexico is commonly known as the world's smallest volcano.PHXflyer is correct in saying that is not a volcano but a geyser.

And yes, the claimant I have in mind is on the Pacific Rim of Fire.

[Wodrick]

Where to start ? The ring seems at it's most active either Japan/Philippines or Indonesia ............

[larsssnowpharter]

Try Philippines.

[Wodrick]

Taal then, went off today briefly it seems.