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City to River #1

Try to name the major river which runs through or past each of these cities.
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First submittedFebruary 9, 2013
Times taken34,911
Average score58.3%
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City
River
Budapest
Danube
Baghdad
Tigris
Buenos Aires
Plata
Cairo
Nile
Cambridge, England
Cam
Cincinnati
Ohio
Düsseldorf
Rhine
Frankfurt
Main
City
River
Hamburg
Elbe
Kinshasa
Congo
Kyiv
Dnieper
Lisbon
Tagus
London
Thames
Montreal
St. Lawrence
New Orleans
Mississippi
New York City
Hudson
City
River
Paris
Seine
Phnom Penh
Mekong
Rome
Tiber
Seoul
Han
Shanghai
Yangtze
Varanasi
Ganges
Warsaw
Vistula
Washington D.C.
Potomac
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36 Comments
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Level 79
Jan 15, 2014
What's wrong with me this morning... can't believe I forgot the name of the Han river. It's so easy and I used to live right by it.
+2
Level 65
Jan 15, 2014
The main reason I got the River Cam
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Level 59
Nov 28, 2014
Han. Seoul. Oh!
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Level 29
Dec 15, 2014
Nice one!^
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Level 69
Jun 11, 2016
You travel quite a bit huh?
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Level 79
Jun 11, 2016
I do. The only reason I got Kiev on this go-around is that I happen to be in Kiev this morning. But I'm also pleased I remembered Seoul.
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Level 82
Oct 18, 2015
I expect those who missed Cambridge kicked themselves when they saw the answer.
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Level 55
Jun 11, 2016
No, I have never even heard of this river.
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Level 75
Jun 11, 2016
But... it's right there in the name of the city. Bridge across Cam, apparently.
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Level 35
Mar 15, 2016
I accidentally typed "Cambodia" for Phnom Penh, but i got stopped, and I got the right answer for Cambridge! HA! Also, Warsaw, Poland, is located at the point where the Vistula and Bug rivers meet. Just FYI
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Level 74
Jun 14, 2016
Not exactly. Bug flows into the Narew which joins with the Vistula ~20 km northwest of Warsaw.
+4
Level 55
Jun 11, 2016
What about the East River for New York?
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Level 74
Jun 11, 2016
It's an estuary, not a river. But then, arguments are made that the Hudson is an estuary up to Albany, while others argue that the Hudson is a fjord.
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Level 60
Jan 14, 2026
to me its a river
+2
Level 55
Jun 11, 2016
You should also accept Dnipro, the Ukrainian name for the river, or Dnepr, the Russian name for it.
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Level 75
Jun 11, 2016
I tried Dniepr and Dnepr and Dnipr and but nope. That second e? Needs more alternative spellings.
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Level 79
Jun 11, 2016
I think I've only seen the Ukrainian spellings since I'm here in Ukraine and it's the first I recall hearing about it... but somehow I got the right answer trying different variations of spelling.
+2
Level ∞
Jun 11, 2016
Added some more spellings for that one
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Level 76
Feb 10, 2020
Still no dnjepr, had to try several things before something got accepted. I think dnepr was the one.
+2
Level 46
Jun 11, 2016
Well, I don't know how to spell Seine.
+3
Level 54
Jun 11, 2016
Recognize st. lawrence as st. laurent. That's how people in Montreal and the city call it.
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Level 59
Jun 13, 2016
I agree, I live in Montreal and the local name is indeed St-Laurent.
+1
Level 73
Jun 13, 2016
all of them with 1.56 left....had a bit of bother getting Dniepr....had to try a few combinations :)
+1
Level 80
Aug 29, 2016
Only missed Tagus, which I feel I should have gotten, but all I could think of was the Douro.
+1
Level 92
Sep 26, 2018
18/24. Great quiz. Thank you.
+1
Level 36
Dec 4, 2018
Ohio means beautiful river in iroquois
+1
Level 94
Nov 14, 2024
Nice
+2
Level 49
Nov 11, 2019
Frankfurt Am Main, how could I miss it
+1
Level 71
Jan 15, 2026
There are multiple Frankfurts in Germany, but that's indeed the Main one.
+1
Level 76
Feb 10, 2020
Missed all the american ones (north and south) and lisbon warsaw and seoul. Ow I did get missisipi but it was a random try at the start, hoping it would show up somewhere.
+1
Level 89
Oct 8, 2021
To be super pedantic, you should spell it "Washington, D.C." with the comma for the same reason there's a comma after Cambridge
+1
Level 70
Oct 25, 2024
Tigres should be accepted as it is in most other quizzes
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Level 94
Nov 14, 2024
Tigers? For which question?
+2
Level 79
Jan 14, 2026
For Shanghai, the correct answer is actually the Huangpu River, which is the tributary of the Yangzi that flows through Shanghai. (Yangzi is the correct romanised spelling according to the Chinese pinyin system - not Yangtze).
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Level 55
Jan 14, 2026
100% right, the Yangze empties to the South China sea north of Shanghai. It's the Huangpu that splits Shanghai in two, and is sometimes shortened and just called the Pu River, which I find hilarious.
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Level 67
Jan 14, 2026
Could Yangzi be accepted please? It's a legit alternate spelling.