World Geography Trivia

Rivers and Lakes

A quiz on Rivers and Lakes

Difficulty:
easy
Questions:
20

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Questions in this quiz

Q1. Which river is commonly considered the longest river in the world?

  • • Amazon River
  • • Nile River
  • • Yangtze River
  • • Mississippi River

Q2. Which river carries the greatest volume of water?

  • • Amazon River
  • • Congo River
  • • Ganges River
  • • Mekong River

Q3. Which is the largest freshwater lake by surface area?

  • • Lake Baikal
  • • Lake Superior
  • • Lake Victoria
  • • Lake Tanganyika

Q4. Which lake is the deepest in the world?

  • • Lake Baikal
  • • Lake Tahoe
  • • Lake Tanganyika
  • • Caspian Sea

Q5. Which river flows through Paris?

  • • Thames
  • • Seine
  • • Rhine
  • • Danube

Q6. Which river flows through London?

  • • Seine
  • • Thames
  • • Tiber
  • • Ebro

Q7. Which river flows through Egypt into the Mediterranean Sea?

  • • Tigris
  • • Nile
  • • Jordan
  • • Euphrates

Q8. Which river forms part of the border between Mexico and the United States?

  • • Colorado River
  • • Rio Grande
  • • Columbia River
  • • Snake River

Q9. Which African river crosses the equator twice?

  • • Nile River
  • • Congo River
  • • Zambezi River
  • • Orange River

Q10. Which river is the longest in China?

  • • Yellow River
  • • Pearl River
  • • Yangtze River
  • • Mekong River

Q11. Which lake borders Tanzania, Uganda, and Kenya?

  • • Lake Victoria
  • • Lake Malawi
  • • Lake Chad
  • • Lake Turkana

Q12. Which river flows through Baghdad?

  • • Nile
  • • Tigris
  • • Indus
  • • Jordan

Q13. Which river flows through Rome?

  • • Po
  • • Tiber
  • • Arno
  • • Rhône

Q14. Which lake is shared by Peru and Bolivia?

  • • Lake Titicaca
  • • Lake Maracaibo
  • • Lake Nicaragua
  • • Lake Atitlán

Q15. Which river flows through Vienna, Budapest, and Belgrade?

  • • Rhine
  • • Danube
  • • Elbe
  • • Loire

Q16. Which lake is the largest by surface area in Africa?

  • • Lake Victoria
  • • Lake Tanganyika
  • • Lake Malawi
  • • Lake Chad

Q17. Which river is associated with the Grand Canyon?

  • • Missouri River
  • • Colorado River
  • • Snake River
  • • Arkansas River

Q18. Which river flows through India and Bangladesh before reaching the Bay of Bengal?

  • • Ganges
  • • Mekong
  • • Irrawaddy
  • • Amur

Q19. Which river forms much of the border between Laos and Thailand?

  • • Mekong River
  • • Red River
  • • Salween River
  • • Irrawaddy River

Q20. Which lake is sometimes called a sea because it is so large and salty?

  • • Lake Baikal
  • • Caspian Sea
  • • Lake Superior
  • • Lake Geneva