| Clue | Lake | % Correct |
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| Its shores are the lowest land-based elevation on Earth | Dead Sea | 90%
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| Largest inland sea in the world | Caspian Sea | 88%
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| Often called the "highest navigable lake" in the world; largest in South America | Lake Titicaca | 86%
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| Settled by Mormon pioneers | Great Salt Lake | 85%
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| Largest lake located entirely in Canada | Great Bear Lake | 83%
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| World's oldest and deepest lake | Lake Baikal | 83%
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| Scottish lake with a famous monster | Loch Ness | 83%
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| The cities of Kampala, Mwanza and Kisumu overlook it | Lake Victoria | 75%
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| Israeli lake where Jesus is said to have walked on water | Sea of Galilee | 72%
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| Namesake of the most populous city in Switzerland | Lake Zürich | 71%
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| Its main outlet is the Niagara Falls | Lake Erie | 70%
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| Largest freshwater lake in the world | Lake Superior | 70%
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| Lake in Central America infested with freshwater sharks | Lake Nicaragua | 69%
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| Great African lake that was named in honor of Queen Victoria's consort | Lake Albert | 67%
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| Y-shaped Italian lake for the rich and famous | Lake Como | 67%
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| This former second-largest inland sea was nearly destroyed by Soviet irrigation | Aral Sea | 65%
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| The St. Lawrence River begins at the outflow of this lake | Lake Ontario | 63%
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| Henry Stanley found Dr. David Livingstone on the shores of this lake in Africa | Lake Tanganyika | 61%
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| Yellowknife is located along its coast | Great Slave Lake | 57%
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| Syrian reservoir built on the Euphrates that has the namesake of the country's ruler | Lake Assad | 57%
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| Shallow African lake that has shrunk by 90% since 1960 | Lake Chad | 57%
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| Largest lake located entirely in Europe | Lake Ladoga | 57%
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| Biggest freshwater lake in Argentina (hint: just change one vowel from the country's name) | Argentino Lake | 56%
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| Brackish lake bordering New Orleans | Lake Pontchartrain | 56%
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| The Californian host of the 1960 Winter Olympics, Squaw Valley, is located near it | Lake Tahoe | 56%
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| Largest natural lake in Venezuela; namesake of a major coastal Spanish city | Lake Valencia | 56%
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| Has more fish species than any other | Lake Malawi | 54%
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| Deepest lake in the U.S., found inside a former volcano | Crater Lake | 53%
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| Largest Scottish loch (by surface area) | Loch Lomond | 52%
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| World's largest lake located in only one country | Lake Michigan | 50%
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| The 1980 Winter Olympics was hosted along it | Lake Placid | 50%
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| Man-made lake on the Aswan Dam that was named after an Egyptian President | Lake Nasser | 48%
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| Lake between Albania and North Macedonia that is the deepest and oldest in Southern Europe, and also a UNESCO site | Lake Ohrid | 48%
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| Largest lake in Manitoba by surface area | Lake Winnipeg | 48%
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| Small lake located 40 km northeast of Canberra that was named for a "mad" English king | Lake George | 47%
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| This "shocking" reservoir makes 3.6% of Ghana's area | Lake Volta | 47%
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| Lake bordering New York, Vermont and Canada | Lake Champlain | 45%
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| Largest in Australia; contains the lowest natural point in the country (hint: namesake of a famous fictional Jane) | Lake Eyre | 45%
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| This lake in Lombardy is the largest in Italy | Lake Garda | 45%
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| Largest lake in Mongolia by surface area (hint: acronym for "ultraviolet", in plural form) | Lake Uvs | 45%
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| 8% of it lies in Manitoba and 92% in Saskatchewan (hint: another name for an animal called caribou) | Reindeer Lake | 44%
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| Dutch lake that is created by the closing of the Zuiderzee | IJsselmeer | 39%
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| Largest in Hungary | Lake Balaton | 36%
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| Great African lake that was named in honor of Queen Victoria's eldest child | Lake Edward | 36%
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| The French call it "lac Léman" | Lake Geneva | 36%
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| The largest lake in Ethiopia; also the source of the Blue Nile | Lake Tana | 36%
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| Three-letter lake in Turkey that is the largest in the Middle East | Lake Van | 34%
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| Fifth-largest lake in Europe, found between Estonia and Russia border | Lake Peipus | 33%
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| Second-largest in Europe; located in Russia (hint: change one letter from the last letter in the Greek alphabet) | Lake Onega | 32%
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| Largest Canadian lake that is located between two provinces | Lake Athabasca | 31%
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| Reservoir behind Hoover Dam | Lake Mead | 31%
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| This "colorful" lake in New Zealand's South Island has the clearest natural fresh water in the world | Blue Lake | 29%
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| Small lake in northwestern Slovenia with an island on which a church is located | Lake Bled | 27%
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| Lake on which a Central American capital is located; also called Lake Xolotlán | Lake Managua | 27%
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| Largest lake located entirely in Switzerland; Old French for "new castle" | Lake Neuchâtel | 26%
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| On the Rhine between Germany, Switzerland and Austria | Lake Constance | 25%
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| Great African lake bordered by Rwanda and D.R. Congo | Lake Kivu | 25%
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| Large reservoir on the Dnieper River north of Ukraine's capital | Kyiv Cistern | 24%
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| Small lake on the waterway between Lake Huron and Lake Erie bordering Detroit | Lake Saint Clair | 24%
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| The supervolcano at the center of this Indonesian erupted 74,000 years ago, nearly causing humans to become extinct | Lake Toba | 24%
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| Largest in Ireland and the United Kingdom | Lough Neagh | 24%
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| Largest in England's Lake District | Windermere | 24%
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| Minnesota lake that forms the northernmost point of the continental 48 | Lake of the Woods | 23%
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| Great African lake that is the world's largest permanent desert lake | Lake Turkana | 23%
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| Largest lake in Sweden and the European Union | Vänern | 21%
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| Salt lake in southern Argentina home to the lowest point in the Americas (hint: namesake of the chemical element with atomic number 6) | Laguna del Carbón | 19%
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| Has the largest island that is located in a lake | Lake Huron | 17%
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| Salty lake at 226 ft below sea level. Largest in California by surface area | Salton Sea | 17%
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| Largest of the Finger Lakes of New York | Seneca Lake | 17%
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| Second largest in Sweden; Jönköping lies on it | Vättern | 17%
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| Dragon-shaped laked formed by the damming of the Osage river in Missouri | Lake of the Ozarks | 16%
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| Wisconsin lake bordering Oshkosh and Fond du Lac | Lake Winnebago | 15%
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| Longest of New York's Finger Lakes; Ithaca is located at its bottom | Cayuga Lake | 14%
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| Largest lake in Kyrgyzstan | Issyk-Kul | 14%
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| Largest lake in Asia outside Russia | Lake Balkhash | 14%
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| Largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia; located in Cambodia | Tonlé Sap | 13%
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| This lake has the namesake and is located a few miles west of Costa Rica's most active volcano | Lake Arenal | 12%
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| Where the first German massacre of Jews in Italy during WWII occurred | Lake Maggiore | 12%
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| Lake that separates Seattle from its eastern suburbs | Lake Washington | 12%
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| Namesake of a three-letter river on which Scotland's Perth and Dundee lie | Loch Tay | 12%
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| Largest naturally occurring saline lake in Argentina (hint: namesake of an ABBA song with a Spanish title) | Mar Chiquita Lake | 12%
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| Where the longest river in the Pacific Northwest takes its source | Columbia Lake | 10%
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| "Great" lake on the Suez Canal that serves as a "passing lane" for ships | Great Bitter Lake | 10%
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| Largest lake in Antarctica by surface area | Lake Vostok | 10%
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| Largest lake in China by surface area | Qinghai Lake | 10%
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| Florida's largest lake | Lake Okeechobee | 9%
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| This lake is the largest in Japan and has the namesake of a type of Japanese short-necked wooden lute | Lake Biwa | 8%
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| Large reservoir behind Parker Dam, in California and Arizona | Lake Havasu | 7%
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| Reservoir created by the Glen Canyon Dam in Utah and Arizona | Lake Powell | 7%
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| Largest lake in New Zealand | Lake Taupo | 7%
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| Scattered lake that is the largest in Finland | Saimaa | 7%
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| This Iranian lake was once the largest in the Middle East | Lake Urmia | 6%
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| Lake between California and Oregon with namesake of a type of bird | Goose Lake | 4%
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| William Wordsworth once lived in a village with namesake of this lakein England's Lake District | Grasmere | 4%
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| This reservoir along the Zambezi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe,is the largest in the world | Lake Kariba | 4%
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| Located west of Stockholm | Mälaren | 4%
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| Largest lake in Armenia | Lake Sevan | 3%
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| Iconic glacially fed lake in Canada's Banff, located in Valley of the Ten Peaks | Moraine Lake | 3%
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| Large freshwater artificial lake created by the Panama Canal | Gatun Lake | 0%
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| Lake in Djibouti that is home to the lowest point in Africa | Lake Assal | 0%
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| World's largest lake on an island, located in Baffin Island | Nettilling Lake | 0%
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