| Rank | Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| 2 | River of Tom Sawyer | Mississippi | 100%
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| 1 | Longest river in North America, tributary of #2 | Missouri | 94%
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| 5 | Very little of this river's water actually reaches its mouth | Colorado | 91%
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| 11 | Don't mistake this river for the longer #5 | Colorado of Texas | 91%
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| 4 | Illegal immigrants cross this river | Rio Grande | 91%
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| 10 | Two rivers go into Pittsburgh, this one comes out | Ohio | 84%
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| 3 | Part of the "rich man's route" to the Klondike | Yukon | 74%
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| 12 | Flows from Knoxville, through a state with the same name, to #10 | Tennessee | 69%
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| 6 | Second longest tributary of #2 | Arkansas | 68%
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| 7 | Two famous explorers reached the ocean at this river's mouth | Columbia | 68%
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| 8 | But remember this colorful river's valley in a famous cowboy song | Red | 67%
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| 9 | Flows through the deepest canyon in North America | Snake | 59%
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| 13 | Curiously, this river does not even flow through Canada | Canadian | 40%
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| 15 | Powell floated this colorful river before #5 | Green | 40%
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| 17 | Several rivers of this colorful name flow around the country, but this Arkansas-Missouri river is the longest | White | 34%
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| 16 | Longest tributary of #4, shares its name with a fictional cowboy | Pecos | 32%
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| 14 | Longest river entirely in Texas | Brazos | 23%
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| 18 | Sometimes called the Dakota River, it empties into #1 | James | 13%
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| 20 | Namesake of a particularly dangerous shortcut on the Santa Fe Trail | Cimarron | 4%
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| 19 | Longest river entirely in Alaska, it is not a tributary of #3 | Kuskokwim | 2%
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