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Water, Water Everywhere Trivia Quiz


Water keeps the world working, but it can also cause danger and conflict. See the interesting information for the difficulties.

A multiple-choice quiz by littlepup. Estimated time: 3 mins.
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Author
littlepup
Time
3 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
383,985
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Very Easy
Avg Score
9 / 10
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693
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Question 1 of 10
1. What ocean is circled by earthquake-prone faults called the Ring of Fire? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. It seems that rivers never run out of water, despite constantly flowing. What's the longest river in the world, shared by 11 countries? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. The Triangle Trade was a name for sailing routes that delivered merchandise from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the New World, and rum and molasses from the New World to Europe. What ocean were ships sailing on this triangle, back in the 18th century? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. A big city needs lots of water from surrounding sources. What ancient city used stone aqueducts to bring in water centuries ago? Some are even still standing. Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Water can be used for sports, and not just swimming. What river has been used for a boat race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England every year since 1856? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. What method of transportation used water to replace roads, and made shipping easier in the days before pavement, cars or railroads took over? One famous example in the US ran to Lake Erie. Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Some inland bodies of water are almost ten times as salty as the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. What is one that is so big it's called a sea, and is in the Middle East? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. What is the largest lake, by area, in Africa? It was named after a queen who ruled the British Empire for most of the 19th century. Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. This river is sacred to Hindus, and important to many of the people in India for practical use, but it has become very polluted from human and industrial wastes. What is it called? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. This 48-mile canal shortened the ocean route from New York to California, or Ecuador to Europe, by thousands of miles. What is it called? Hint





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1. What ocean is circled by earthquake-prone faults called the Ring of Fire?

Answer: Pacific Ocean

The Ring of Fire gets its name from the many active volcanoes surrounding the Pacific Ocean. They erupt when tectonic plates move, and the movement also causes earthquakes. There aren't just problems on land. The shifting plates create underwater earthquakes that produce giant tsunami waves that flood the shores. Japan was hit by a massive tsunami in 2011. If you were in charge, how would you make your country safe, when citizens insist on living near the shore?
2. It seems that rivers never run out of water, despite constantly flowing. What's the longest river in the world, shared by 11 countries?

Answer: Nile River

So many different people in Africa depend on the Nile for watering crops, drinking, producing electric power or transportation. But they all need to share. What would you do if your neighbor said he was going to dam up the river you needed to flood and water your crops? Managing a long river is difficult.
3. The Triangle Trade was a name for sailing routes that delivered merchandise from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the New World, and rum and molasses from the New World to Europe. What ocean were ships sailing on this triangle, back in the 18th century?

Answer: Atlantic Ocean

Molasses and rum, made from sugarcane, could be produced best in the hot climate of the Caribbean, and many plantations there were set up to specialize in growing it. War-torn Africa had warlords willing to sell captured enemies as slaves, and the Caribbean nations needed slaves to work on their sugar cane plantations.

The colder countries of Europe needed sugar from elsewhere and were willing to pay well for it. Each corner of the triangle was set up to trade at a profit, and couldn't easily switch to another way of making money.

But the slave trade was horrible. How would you stop countries from trading slaves without a war, or would it be worth a war?
4. A big city needs lots of water from surrounding sources. What ancient city used stone aqueducts to bring in water centuries ago? Some are even still standing.

Answer: Rome, almost 2000 years ago

The Roman aqueducts improved the lives of so many people in the Roman Empire, by bring water for irrigation, bathing, washing, and drinking. Imagine all the laws you'd have to pass, though! Farmers would complain about creeks and wells drained, townspeople would argue who got the water, landowners would complain about big stone aqueducts on their land...
5. Water can be used for sports, and not just swimming. What river has been used for a boat race between Oxford and Cambridge Universities in England every year since 1856?

Answer: River Thames

Only the World Wars have interrupted the famous annual rowing race, first held in 1829 before becoming yearly in 1856. Cancelling during wartime is an easy decision, but imagine how you would handle difficult situations in more normal years: a protester on the course, dangerous weather that sank the boats, a disputed judgment of the winner, crews threatening to quit...

As at any exciting athletic contest, officials must be ready for anything.
6. What method of transportation used water to replace roads, and made shipping easier in the days before pavement, cars or railroads took over? One famous example in the US ran to Lake Erie.

Answer: canals

Canals required a huge amount of labor to build, but once done, everything from coal to cabbages could glide on smooth waterways for hundreds of miles, rather than traveling over bumpy roads. Canals have been built for centuries, and use a clever method of "locks" to raise and lower boats from one section to the next. People often didn't trust a proposed canal, and thought it would be a waste of work and public money. How would you combine maps, estimates of labor and predictions about cheaper shipping costs, to convince communities they ought to cooperate and build a long canal?
7. Some inland bodies of water are almost ten times as salty as the Atlantic or Pacific Oceans. What is one that is so big it's called a sea, and is in the Middle East?

Answer: The Dead Sea

The Baltic Sea is only about 1% salty, compared to the oceans' 3.5%, but the Dead Sea is a whopping 33.7%. The Great Salt Lake and Little Manitou Lake are salty, but are in the US and Canada. What useful mineral do you think you could extract from a salty lake or sea by evaporation, and sell?
8. What is the largest lake, by area, in Africa? It was named after a queen who ruled the British Empire for most of the 19th century.

Answer: Lake Victoria

John Hanning Speke (1827-1864), a British explorer, naturally wanted to honor his queen by giving her name to the largest lake he found on a trip to Africa. In 1858, he was the first European to see the lake, though Africans had lived near it and traveled past it for thousands of years.

Some of the local people called it Nalubaale, Nam Lolwe, or Nyanza. As long as everyone agrees to a name, there's no problem, and everyone seems happy with Lake Victoria. But it's worth remembering that if explorers go where native people live, then they're only discovering something new to them, but it's old to the people who live there. Why should a foreigner come and rename something, if local people already have a perfectly good name for it? How could you settle a disagreement?
9. This river is sacred to Hindus, and important to many of the people in India for practical use, but it has become very polluted from human and industrial wastes. What is it called?

Answer: The Ganges (or Ganga) River

The Ganga River serves millions of Indians. But crowding has caused factories and individuals to discharge home and industrial waste in the river, causing pollution that harms not only living creatures in the water but the humans who use the water for drinking, bathing and washing clothes.

There have been many plans to reduce pollution, but none has been successful enough. What would you do?
10. This 48-mile canal shortened the ocean route from New York to California, or Ecuador to Europe, by thousands of miles. What is it called?

Answer: Panama Canal

Ships had to sail around the southern tip of South America, or unload and reload their goods onto another waiting ship, because there was no way to cross the tiny little strip of connecting land between North and South America and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

But those 48 miles were covered by a jungle filled with poisonous snakes and disease-carrying mosquitoes. The canal was successfully finished in 1914, after 25,000 people died over many years. When your workers were dying, how long would you have pushed ahead? Was the result worth the sacrifice?
Source: Author littlepup

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