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Canal Knowledge - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 795 times
- The average score is 9 of 15
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| Which Italian city is also known as the City of Canals? | Venice | 90%
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| Which is the longest canal in the world? | Grand Canal, China | 86%
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| Which European capital features canals built in concentric semicircles? | Amsterdam | 76%
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| Which canal helped New York City beat Philadelphia as the USA's busiest port? | Erie Canal | 76%
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| Which vessels are built for Britain's limited width canal systems? | Narrowboats | 76%
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| What is used for lowering and raising boats between different levels of a canal? | A lock | 71%
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| What was the name of the container ship that blocked the Suez canal in 2021? | Ever Given | 67%
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| Which of these is a French canal and UNESCO World Heritage Site? | Canal du Midi | 62%
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| Which British city contains the longest network of canals? | Birmingham | 57%
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| Which major canal is being planned in Turkey to bypass the Bosporus? | The Istanbul Canal | 57%
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| And what were they originally powered by? | Horse | 48%
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| How many fixed road bridges cross the Suez canal? | One | 43%
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| By how much did the Panama canal shorten a New York to Seattle voyage? | 7,800 miles (12,550 km) shorter | 29%
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| Which canal first enabled boat travel from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean? | Canal of the Pharaohs, Ancient Egypt | 24%
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| Pacific to Atlantic travel on the Panama canal is in which general direction? | Northwest | 19%
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