Basic River Knowledge #1 - Statistics

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Question	Answer	% Correct
What is the largest river by total discharge?	Amazon	100%
What river is the most sacred to Hinduism?	Ganges	96%
What river flows through Paris?	Seine	93%
What is the longest tributary of the Mississippi River?	Missouri	91%
What were the two important rivers of Mesopotamia?	Euphrates	89%
What were the two important rivers of Mesopotamia?	Tigris	89%
Other than Buenos Aires, what national capital is on the Río de la Plata?	Montevideo	81%
Bamako, the capital of Mali is on what river?	Niger	75%
What is the largest city on the Tiber River?	Rome	75%
Which huge and famous waterfall is on the Zambezi River?	Victoria Falls	75%
In what country does the Orinoco River drain?	Venezuela	63%
The Amu and Syr Darya rivers used to flow entirely into what inland sea before humans diverted the water?	Aral Sea	61%
What is the biggest country in the world with no permanent rivers?	Saudi Arabia	58%
What river flows through cities like Kazan and Tolyatti?	Volga	56%
What country is the Irrawaddy River in?	Myanmar	46%
Lake Tana is the source of what major tributary?	Blue Nile	33%
What is the Arabic term for a non-permanent river that fills with water only during rainstorms?	Wadi	30%
And in what city does that tributary end?	Khartoum	28%
What is the Chinese name for the Yellow River?	Huang He	26%
What Chinese province is the Pearl River Delta in?	Guangdong	19%

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