Rivers - Multiple Choice Quiz

Multiple choice questions about or relating to rivers.
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1. Which of these rivers is the longest?
Mekong: 2,700 miles, Brahmaputra: 2,466 miles, Indus: 1,980 miles, Irrawaddy: 1,422 miles.
Indus
Irrawaddy
Brahmaputra
Mekong
2. Which of these rivers does not have its source in the Alps?
The Danube forms from the confluence of the Breg and the Brigach located in the Black Forest, and the sources of those two rivers are also in the Black Forest. The two sources of the Rhine are both in the Lepontine Alps, the source of the Rhône is in the Uri Alps and the source of the Po is in the Cottian Alps.
Rhine
Danube
Rhône
Po
3. Which of these cities is not located on a river?
Rio de Janeiro is located on a bay. Baghdad is located on the Tigris, Lisbon is located on the Tagus and Luxor is located on the Nile.
Baghdad
Rio de Janeiro
Lisbon
Luxor
4. Which of these is not the name of a tributary of the Mississippi River?
Nebraska River
Minnesota River
Illinois River
Wisconsin River
5. Which of these is the name of an English river?
There are two rivers in England with this name: one flows into the Bristol Channel and the other flows into Lyme Bay.
River Mace
River Spear
River Axe
River Sword
6. During the rainy season, which of the Nile's tributaries supplies most of the river's water?
It supplies 80-86% of the Nile's water.
White Nile
Blue Nile
7. Five of Australia's seven longest rivers are tributaries of the country's longest river.
The Murrumbidgee River, Darling River, Lachlan River, Warrego River and Paroo River are all tributaries of the Murray River.
False
True
8. Which of these rivers flows into an ocean?
The Syr Darya ends at the Aral Sea, the River Jordan ends at the Dead Sea and the Tarim River ends at Lop Nur, while the Krishna River flows into the Bay of Bengal.
Tarim River
Krishna River
River Jordan
Syr Darya
9. Which tributary river joins the Amazon at Manaus?
The confluence is called the Meeting of Waters.
Trombetas
Rio Negro
Madeira River
Tocantins River
10. Which of these rivers flows through Pisa?
The Arno also flows through Florence. The Tiber flows through Rome, the Po flows through Turin, Piacenza, Cremona and Ferrara, and the Adige flows through Verona.
Po
Tiber
Arno
Adige
11. Which river is Victoria Falls located on?
Congo River
Zambezi River
Limpopo River
Benue River
12. Which of these bodies of water does the Yukon River empty into?
Chukchi Sea
Bering Sea
Beaufort Sea
Gulf of Alaska
13. What material causes the Yellow River to be yellow?
Part of the river surrounds the Loess Plateau, an area located in the southeast of the Gobi Desert.
Gypsum
Loam
Loess
Sandstone
14. The Orinoco is located entirely within Venezuela.
Parts of the river are in Colombia.
False
True
15. Which of these rivers has the greatest average discharge?
Rhône: 1,710 m3/s, Loire: 835.3 m3/s, Garonne: 650 m3/s, Seine: 560 m3/s.
Loire
Garonne
Rhône
Seine
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