State of the Lake Trivia Quiz

Answer: Mark Twain Lake

Mark Twain Lake is named for the legendary Missouri author Mark Twain. The boyhood home of Mark Twain, Hannibal, is twenty miles southeast of the lake. The Mark Twain Lake sits at the face of the Clarence Cannon Dam which impounds the Salt River. The inflow and outflow for the lake is the Salt River. The lake includes a surface area of over 18,000 acres, a shoreline of 285 miles and an average depth of 29 feet.

Other choices: Walter Cronkite was born in St. Joseph, Missouri. George Washington Carver was born in Diamond Grove, Missouri. Finally, Bill Bradley was born in Crystal City, Missouri.

Answer: Lake of the Woods

The Lake of the Woods lies partly in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and Manitoba and also in the U.S. state of Minnesota. The lake separates a piece of land area of Minnesota from the rest of the United States, called the Northwest Angle. The Northwest Angle can only be reached by crossing the lake, or by going through Canada. The northernmost part of the continental United States is the Northwest Angle. The Lake of the Woods has over 14,500 islands and 65,000 miles of shoreline.

Lake Minnetonka is located in southeastern Minnesota, while Red Lake is located in northern Minnesota. Vermilion Lake is located in northeastern Minnesota.

Answer: Lake Okeechobee

Lake Okeechobee is the largest freshwater lake in the southern part of the United States. It also stands as the second largest freshwater lake to be completely within the continental borders of the United States, behind Lake Michigan. The surface area of the lake is 730 square miles, with an average depth of nine feet.

The Kissimee River is one of its inflows, while the outflow is the Everglades. The surface of Lake Okeechobee sits above sea level and is surrounded by a twenty foot high dike built in 1928 by the Army Corps of Engineers.

Answer: Lake St. Clair

Lake St. Clair lies between the U.S. state of Michigan and Ontario in Canada. The lake's surface area is 430 square miles. Residence time for the lake water is normally seven days, but it could be as low as two or as high as thirty days, depending on weather patterns. The lake is 26 miles long by 24 miles wide, with an average depth of eleven feet. However, navigation channels have been dredged to 27 feet. One of the lake's primary inflows is the St. Clair River, flowing from Lake Huron. The primary outflow is the Detroit River flowing into Lake Erie. Lake St. Clair is part of the Great Lakes system, but is not recognized as a Great Lake mainly because of it size.

Lake Superior is 20,364,800 acres.
Lake Huron is 14,726,400 acres.
Lake Erie is 6,361,600 acres.
Lake St. Clair is 275,200 acres.

Answer: Lake Pontchartrain

Lake Pontchartrain is the second largest saltwater lake in the United States, after the Great Salt Lake. It covers an area of 630 square miles and is 12 to 14 feet deep. The southern shore of the lake is the northern boundary of the city of New Orleans.

Catahoula Lake is the largest freshwater lake in Louisiana. It is located in the central part of the state and covers just over 46 square miles. Lake Maurepas is near Baton Rouge. Lac des Allemands is French for "Lake of the Germans."

Answer: Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake is a reservoir held by the Grand Coulee Dam. The inflow and outflow of the lake is the Columbia River. The lake has a 600 mile shoreline and is the largest lake in the state. It is named for FDR, who was the sitting American president at the time the dam was constructed.

Answer: Lake Sakakawea

Lake Sakakawea is named for the Shoshone woman (also known as, Sacagawea, Sacajawea) who accompanied the Lewis and Clark Expedition into the Western United States.

Lake Sakakawea is the third largest man-made lake in the United States, after Lake Powell and Lake Mead. It sits at the face of the Garrison Dam, where the water depth is 180 feet. The major inflows are the Missouri and Yellowstone Rivers, with the Missouri being the outflow. The normal shoreline is just over 1,300 miles.

Answer: Nevada and Arizona

Lake Mead is the largest reservoir in the United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona. It extends for 110 miles behind the Hoover Dam, for a 248 square mile surface area and a combined shoreline of 550 miles. The primary inflow and outflow for Lake Mead is the Colorado River.

Answer: Lake Placid

Lake Placid sits in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. It covers 2,170 acres, with an average depth of fifty feet. The lake's main inflow are springs and mountain streams. The city of Lake Placid held the Winter Olympics in 1932 and 1980.

Answer: Volcanic core island in lake that resembles an elephant

Elephant Butte Lake is a reservoir that is impounded by the Elephant Butte Dam in the southwestern state of New Mexico. The primary inflow and outflow for the lake is the Rio Grande. The lake has a surface area of 36,500 acres and a surface elevation of 4,414 ft.