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Geography Quiz - Lakes and Stuff

These questions can kick some of us in the Niagara Falls. Including myself. I am starting to get on top of them. Acknowledgements - Platittude... and his 'Draw the World Map' quiz.
For the purpose of this quiz, the two Congos are just written up as Congo. I gave up a long time ago trying to differentiate between the two.
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1. Lake Mweru is shared by which two countries?
Kenya and Tanzania
Uganda and Burundi
Zambia and Zimbabwe
Zambia and Congo
2. Which two lakes are shared by Congo and Uganda?
Lake Mweru and Lake Malawi
Lake Albert and Lake Victoria
Lake Albert and Lake Edward
Veronica Lake and Swan Lake
3. What was the name of Lake Albert by African tribes in the area?
Mweru
Mittagong
Mwitanzige
Malawi
4. In which Australian state will you find a lake named 'Albert'?
Queensland
Western Australia
New South Wales
Tasmania
5. Which lake did Platittude include in his 'Draw the World Map' quiz after bowing down to public pressure? In his instructions - "Lakes that are entirely contained within a country are not drawn on the map. Because they are not borders."
Lake Okeechobee
Lake Tahoe
Lake Michigan
Lake Disappointment
6. Which strait has a more legitimate claim for inclusion in the Platittude quiz referred to above than the answer above?
Strait of Messina
Strait of Sicily
Torres Strait
All of the Above
7. Lake Disappointment was named so by which explorer?
William Clark
James Cook
Frank Hann
Meriwether Lewis
8. The word 'endorheic' means?
The era between 'jurassic' and 'psychedelic'.
A river that is flooded so often and so immensely that its tributaries become a greater river than it to the sea.
Water bodies that become isolated from a main river and become swamps, and salt basins
A character in the 'Harry Potter' franchise that rides sidesaddle on items that are designed to sweep dusty floors...NOT sit on whilst you kiss a girl for the first time
9. The Tasman Sea is shared by which two countries?
Australia and Papua New Guinea
Australia and East Timor
New Zealand and Guam
Australia and New Zealand
10. Australia's highest mountain?
Mount Sinai
Mount Kenya
Mountain Kosiuskzo
Mount Vernon
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