Statistics for Rivers of the World A-Z

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Letter	Hint	Answer	% Correct
C	Second longest river in Africa and second largest by discharge in the world	Congo	100%
Y	Northernmost of the two "top ten" longest rivers that start with a Y, also a color	Yellow	83%
N	Third longest in Africa, with B as a major tributary	Niger	75%
Z	River that touches the "slightly off" corner of Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe	Zambezi	75%
S	Named after a West African country in which it flows in the north	Senegal	67%
E	River in northern Spain which flows mainly east-southeast	Ebro	63%
H	Flows into the Yangtze at Wuhan, namesake of a major Chinese dynasty	Han	63%
M	Longest river system in Canada, longest river to empty into the Arctic Ocean from North America, and drains about 20% of Canada	Mackenzie	58%
V	Main river of Ghana, with its basin in parts of five other countries; change one letter and you get the longest river in Europe	Volta	58%
L	Forms the northern border of South Africa and flows into the Indian Ocean near Xai-Xai, Mozambique	Limpopo	50%
I	Major river in Myanmar, flowing north-to-south from the Andaman Sea	Irrawaddy	42%
D	Tributary of the Murray river which flows through the state of New South Wales, Australia	Darling	38%
A	Major river in Central Asia which flows into the remnants of the Aral Sea	Amu Darya	29%
W	Named for a "doubled" city in Washington state, also starts with the same two letters as Washington	Walla Walla	21%
U	Ranked fiftieth in length by Wikipedia, it is an anagram of a major city it passes through	Ubangi	17%
X	Only "river" starting with X with a length over 1000 km	Xingu	17%
B	Tributary which flows through eastern Nigeria and northern Cameroon	Benue	13%
G	Longest river on the Deccan Peninsula (not the Ganges, it is not on the peninsula)	Godavari	13%
J	Six-letter tributary of the Amazon, home to super-heavy 6' catfish	Japura	8%
K	Tributary which shares the name of some of its own tributaries with many provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, including sharing its own name with three of them	Kasai	8%
R	World's shortest river according to the Guinness Book of World Records	Roe	8%
F	Third longest river on New Guinea and the namesake of a turtle with a nose resembling a pig's snout	Fly	4%
O	Major river in North Siberia, west of the Lena river delta in the Sakha Republic	Olenyok	4%
P	First major tributary of the Amazon which joins west of Manaus	Purus	4%
Q	Tributary of the Yangtze which flows through central Nanjing	Qinhuai	4%
T	Endorheic river in Xinjiang, China, near the Kunlun Mountains	Tarim	4%