Bodies of Water in History - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Body of water which was crossed by Allied troops on D-Day	{English} Channel	98%
Strait which Iran said it had "closed" in 2026	Strait of {Hormuz}	96%
Until 767 AD, the "Canal of the Pharaohs" connected this sea to the Nile River	{Red} Sea	94%
Venice was known as the "mistress" of this sea	{Adriatic} Sea	90%
Where Cuban expats invaded Cuba in 1961, supported (poorly) by the CIA	Bay of {Pigs}	90%
Of the seven seas sailed by Sinbad, this would have been the first	{Persian} Gulf	90%
While looking for the Northwest Passage, Henry Hudson was marooned here, never to be seen again	{Hudson} Bay	88%
British explorer John Hanning Speke arrived here in 1858, announcing that he had found the source of the Nile	Lake {Victoria}	88%
During WWII, Germany had near complete control of this sea	{Baltic} Sea	85%
Once the fourth largest lake in the world, Soviet irrigation practices caused it to shrink by 90%	{Aral} Sea	83%
Manco Cápac, the founder of the Inca dynasty, was said to be raised from the depths of this lake by the sun god Inti	Lake {Titicaca}	81%
Where the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in 1975	Lake {Superior}	80%
According to the Bible, Jesus walked on the surface of this sea	Sea of {Galilee}	80%
Site of the Greek settlement of Trebizond, founded in 756 BC and conquered by the Ottomans in 1461	{Black} Sea	77%
The first circumnavigation of the world used this passageway to avoid sailing around Cape Horn	Strait of {Magellan}	73%
In ancient times, Pliny the Younger owned a villa near the shores of this lake. Today, George Clooney does.	Lake {Como}	68%
From ancient times to the present, a large percent of naval traffic to China passes through this chokepoint	Strait of {Malacca}	51%
Where the Exxon Valdez spilled oil in 1990	Prince {William} Sound	47%

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