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Straight Up Trivia #19: Largest Reservoirs

19th in a series of themed trivia quizzes. Answer these questions inspired by the largest reservoirs (i.e., lakes created by dams) in the world, not including natural lakes that have been dammed to control lake volume. Numbers are surface area of the reservoir in square kilometers. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reservoirs_by_surface_area
Quizzes in this series: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18
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Lake Volta, 8500. Alessandro Volta (no relation) is credited as the inventor of the electric battery and discoverer of what tetrahedral organic molecule?
Methane
Smallwood Reservoir, 6527. The Smallwood Reservoir is named for the first premier of what most recently created province of Canada?
Newfoundland and Labrador
Kuybyshev Reservoir, 6450. The Kuybyshev Reservoir dams the Volga River, which saw perhaps the bloodiest battle in history during World War II at what downstream city, now known as Volgograd?
Stalingrad
Lake Kariba, 5580. Lake Kariba is the largest reservoir by volume. For what three-dimensional shape is the volume equal to pi * r squared * h / 3?
Cone
Bratsk Reservoir, 5470. The original Bratz line included four dolls, Yasmin, Cloe, Sasha, and who? The doll is (supposedly) East Asian and shares her name with a rock often used in jewelry.
Jade
Lake Nasser, 5200. Lake Nasser is named for Gamel Abdel Nasser, who in 1958 formed the briefly lived United Arab Republic by joining Egypt with what other sovereign nation? That nation seceded three years later after a coup d'etat.
Syria
Rybinsk Reservoir, 4550. The Rybinsk Reservoir is one end of the Mariinsk Canal System, which links the Baltic Sea to what lake, via the Neva and Volga Rivers?
Caspian Sea
Caniapiscau Reservoir, 4318. The name Caniapiscau is adapted from the word for Rocky Point in what First Nations language? If the many dialects are considered as one language, it is the aboriginal language with the most speakers in Canada.
Cree
Lake Guri, 4250. Most of Venezuela's electric power comes from the dam that forms Lake Guri (at least when the hydroelectric power plant is actually working). The dam as well as the currency of Venezuela are named for whom?
Simon Bolivar
Sobradinho Reservoir, 4225. The Sobradinho Reservoir dams a river named for what saint? Many other geographical locations are named for the saint, including a major city in the U.S.
Saint Francis of Assisi
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