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YGK Rivers
Quiz Bowl Practice
| Clue | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cities along its course include Basel, Strasbourg, Mainz, Bonn, Cologne, and Rotterdam, and tributaries include the Main, Mosel, and Ruhr. | Rhine |
| The second-longest river in France, it flows through Paris. | Seine |
| Hydroelectric dams on this river produce huge artificial lakes including the Sea of Castile. | Tagus |
| Originates in the Swiss Alps and flows into Lake Geneva. The river splits into “grand” and “petit” branches which encircle the island of Camargue | Rhone |
| It begins in Germany’s Black Forest it passes through (or touches the borders of) 10 nations on its 1,785-mile course ending at the Black Sea. | Danube |
| Italy’s longest river. Manmade levees called argini protect towns and crops. | Po |
| France’s longest river flows to the Bay of Biscay. The “last wild river in Western Europe. | Loire |
| Ireland’s longest river. A chief tributary is the Suck River. | Shannon |
| Along with the Neisse, forms the Germany-Poland border, as dictated at the Potsdam Conference. | Oder |
| Flowing through Reading, Oxford, and Swindon, it is prevented from flooding by its namesake Barrier near the Isle of Dogs. | Thames |
| German myth tells of the Lorelei, a nymph who lured sailors on this river to their deaths. | Rhine |
| the principal river of the Iberian Peninsula, it flows west, passing through Lisbon, Portugal | Tagus |
| Formerly known as the Ister, it was often used to define a northern border for the Roman Empire. | Danube |
| Cities along its course include Basel, Strasbourg, Mainz, Bonn, Cologne, and Rotterdam, and tributaries include the Main, Mosel, and Ruhr. | Rhine |
| The second-longest river in France, it flows through Paris. | Seine |
| Hydroelectric dams on this river produce huge artificial lakes including the Sea of Castile. | Tagus |
| Originates in the Swiss Alps and flows into Lake Geneva. The river splits into “grand” and “petit” branches which encircle the island of Camargue | Rhone |
| It begins in Germany’s Black Forest it passes through (or touches the borders of) 10 nations on its 1,785-mile course ending at the Black Sea. | Danube |
| Italy’s longest river. Manmade levees called argini protect towns and crops. | Po |
| France’s longest river flows to the Bay of Biscay. The “last wild river in Western Europe. | Loire |
| Ireland’s longest river. A chief tributary is the Suck River. | Shannon |
| Along with the Neisse, forms the Germany-Poland border, as dictated at the Potsdam Conference. | Oder |
| Flowing through Reading, Oxford, and Swindon, it is prevented from flooding by its namesake Barrier near the Isle of Dogs. | Thames |
| German myth tells of the Lorelei, a nymph who lured sailors on this river to their deaths. | Rhine |
| the principal river of the Iberian Peninsula, it flows west, passing through Lisbon, Portugal | Tagus |
| Formerly known as the Ister, it was often used to define a northern border for the Roman Empire. | Danube |
| The longest river in China and Asia and the third longest in the world. Three Gorges Dam | Yangtze |
| Its source is in the Tibetan Himalayas. Enters Bangladesh where it merges with the Ganges to form the world's largest delta. | Brahmaputra |
| holiest river of Hinduism. flows a comparatively short 1,560 miles to the world's largest delta on the Bay of Bengal. | Ganges |
| It originates in eastern Tibet, forms much of the Laos-Thailand border, flows south through Cambodia, and enters the South China Sea in southern Vietnam. | Mekong |
| It rises in Turkey, then flows southeast by Mosul, Tikrit, and Baghdad. | Tigris |
| The eastern of the two rivers that define the historic region of Mesopotamia | Tigris |
| defines the western border of Mesopotamia; it is the longer of the two rivers | Euphrates |
| Its name is thought to come from the Sanskrit word for "elephant." One of the world's most important rice-growing regions | Irrawaddy |
| Chief river of Pakistan and source of the name of India. | Indus |
| Rises in Syria from springs near Mount Hermon. Flows through the Sea of Galilee, and into the Dead Sea. forms a boundary with the West Bank and northern Israel. | Jordan |
| flows a in a generally south-to-north direction from its headwaters in Burundi to the Mediterranean Sea | Nile |
| Africa's second-longest river. a section of Seven cataracts near Kisangani, marks the beginning of this river. | Congo |
| rises in eastern Angola, passes through Zambia, flows along the borders of Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe. | Zambezi |
| The Cabora Bassa and Kariba Dams form large lakes on this river. Victoria Falls are found on it. | Zambezi |
| The medieval Mali and Songhai Empires were centered on this river. It is Africa's 3rd longest. | Niger |
| in "The Elephant's Child" referred to as "the great grey-green, greasy...river, all set about with fever-trees". Rises as the Crocodile River | Limpopo |
| Flows from central Angola, through Namibia's Caprivi Strip, and into the Kalahari Desert of Botswana where it terminates in a massive inland swamp | Okavango |
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