Round 7: Tossup 18

A history of this location “in the age of Revolutions” by John Brewer details how visitors to (10[1])it made use of landmarks like the Hermitage of Camaldoli. One of the three annual liquefactions of the blood of St. Januarius commemorates his supposed intervention in a 1631 event at this location. This was the more northerly of two locations about which William Hamilton wrote to the Royal Society. Thomas (-5[1])Cook and Son operated a cable railway at this location, the opening of which was commemorated in the song “Funiculì, (10[1])Funiculà.” (10[1])An event at this location (-5[1])destroyed eighty-eight B-25 Mitchell bombers during (-5[1])the Allied occupation of Naples, while a much earlier instance buried (0[1])Herculaneum (10[1])in (10[1])pyroclastic flow. For 10 points, name this volcano whose eruption of 79 CE destroyed Pompeii. (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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