A River Runs Through It (2) Trivia Quiz

Answer: Manaus (Brazil)

Founded in 1693, it was known as 'Cidade da Barra do Rio Negro' ("The City of the Margins of the Black River") when it acquired city status in 1848. Now called Manaus, this city of more than 2 million (2014 estimate) is located in the centre of the Amazon rainforest and is the capital of Amazonas state. The richest city in South America in the late 1800s thanks to the rubber industry, Manaus is now a hub for tourists visiting the river and the jungle, and a major port even though it lies more than 900 miles inland from the Atlantic Ocean.

Of the alternatives, with a population of more than 430,000 (2015 estimate)Iquitos is the largest metropolis in the Peruvian Amazon region; Leticia is small (around 35,000) and is the southernmost city in Colombia and a major port; Macapa is a city of around 400,000 (2010 Census) located near the mouth of the Amazon, near to the Atlantic coast in northeastern Brazil.

Answer: Yangzhou

A prefecture-level city of almost 4.5 million (2010 Census), Yangzhou stands on the north bank of the Yangtze in the eastern-central coastal province of Jiangsu. Founded in around 485 BC during the era known as the "Spring and Autumn period" in Chinese history, Yangzhou was the southern capital of Imperial China during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui in the early 7th century. In the early 12th century, it was also briefly the seat of the Song dynasty. Some versions of Marco Polo's memoirs say that he was the governor of Yangzhou under Kubla Khan in the 1280s.

Yangzhou has long been known for its rich merchant families. The home of artists, poets and scholars, it was the capital of the Imperial Chinese province of the same name.

Slender West Lake is located to the north of Yangzhou's 'historic district'. A favourite retreat of the Qianlong Emperor (reigned 1735-1796), the lake is surrounded by numerous historical structures that now attract thousands of tourists annually.

Answer: Memphis TN

Humans have occupied this bluff overlooking the eastern banks of the mighty Mississippi for thousands of years and the first permanent settlement here dates back to the first millennium AD. Named for the ancient capital of Aneb-Hetch, one of the 42 administrative districts (called 'nomes') of Ancient Egypt, Memphis is the youngest of the major cities in Tennessee. With a population of almost 650,000 (2010 Census), it became the largest city in the state, and the largest on the Mississippi river system.

The Hernando De Soto Bridge is still sometimes called the "New Bridge" by locals as it effectively replaced the "Memphis & Arkansas Bridge" further downstream, built in 1949 to carry I-55 across the river. Named after the 16th century Spaniard who first explored this stretch of the Mississippi river, the De Soto Bridge supports a small part of the 2,555-mile long I-40 on its route from Benson NC to Barstow CA.

Answer: Novosibirsk

The modern city of Novosibirsk, home to almost 1.5 million (2010 Census) and Russia's third-largest city (after Moscow and Saint Petersburg), stands on the site of the village of Krivoshchekovskaya, founded in 1696. The city, originally named Novonikolayevsk in honour of both Saint Nicholas and the reigning tsar at the time, Nicholas II, was officially founded in 1893 as the site of future bridge across the River Ob as part of the building of the Trans-Siberian Railway. The bridge was completed four years later and the city grew as a major transport hub between Central Asia and the Caspian Sea region.

Opened in 1922 and located right in the centre of Novosibirsk, the Monument to the Heroes of the Revolution was a site that school children from all around the region were required to visit as part of their education during the Soviet era. Neglected since the end of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, it is now one of the best-preserved examples of a historic site from that era.

Answer: Montevideo, Uruguay

The capital and largest city of Uruguay, the 1.3 million who lived in Montevideo at the time of the 2011 Census represented more than one third of the entire population of the country. The southernmost capital city in the Americas, Montevideo was voted as having the highest quality of life of any Latin America city in every year between 2005 and 2015.

The Portuguese built a settlement they named "Colonia do Sacramentoon" on the northern shore of the River Plate, facing Buenos Aires in the 1680s. In 1723, the Spanish built Fort Montevieu and a year later forced the Portuguese to abandon their settlements. By 1776, Montevideo was the main Spanish naval base in the South Atlantic region. During the early 19th century, control of the city switched from Spanish to British to Spanish and then Portuguese and Brazilian until Uruguay became independent in 1828.

Answer: Niamey, Niger

A settlement with around 600 residents at the turn of the 20th century, the population of Niamey was still less than 3,000 by the time it became the capital of French Niger in 1926. By the time of independence in 1960, that number had swelled to 30,000 and 20 years later it was 250,000. By 2006, estimates put the population of Niamey at 750,000 and a decade later it is thought to have doubled again. Situated mostly on the east bank of the Niger River, the city is located in the extreme southwest of the country, near to the border with Burkina Faso.

The photograph shows an aerial view of the China-Niger Friendship Bridge, which opened in March 2011. The river itself takes one of the most unusual routes of any of the world's rivers, travelling in a boomerang shape, travelling northeast from Sierra Leone through Guinea and across Mali, before turning southeast and crossing Niger into Nigeria, where it finally turns south to the Atlantic.

Answer: Hyderabad

With a population of 3.4 million (2014 estimate), Hyderabad is the fourth-largest of Pakistan's cities (after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad). The city began as a small fishing village on the banks of Indus River in 1768, and grew to serve as the capital of Sindh province from 1947 to 1955. Today it is known for its relative tolerance towards religious and ethnic minorities, with its population made up of a multi-ethnic mix of Sindhi, Urdu speaking Muhajirs, Punjabis, Pashtuns, Memons and Baloch people.

The Tombs of Talpur Mirs is a complex of large mausoleums for the Talpur rulers, who controlled this region from 1784 to 1843. The tombs are known particularly for the tile decoration on their outside façades. Initially established as a botanical garden in 1861, the gardens of the Rani Bagh zoo are home to more than 3,000 trees, with 227 different species.

Answer: Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA)

Founded in 1706, the village was named in honour of the man who had been viceroy of New Spain from 1653 to 1660, Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, the 8th Duke of Alburquerque. Located in the centre of New Mexico, Albuquerque is now the state's largest city. One of the highest of all major US cities: elevation ranges from 4,900 feet in the area known as The Valley, where the Rio Grande passes through, to 5,350 at the airport to 6,700 feet in the northern suburb of Sandia Heights.

Established on the grounds of Kirtland Air Force Base in 1969 as the National Atomic Museum, the National Museum of Nuclear Science & History was rebranded in 2009. Designated in 1990 and dominating the western horizon of the city, the 17-mile long Petroglyph National Monument is a volcanic basalt escarpment made up of a chain of five dormant fissure volcanoes.

The world's largest hot air balloon festival, what has become the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta began in 1972, when a grand total of 13 balloons showed up. Now more than 500 balloons of all shapes, sizes and designs feature in the annual event.

Answer: Tete, Mozambique

An important Swahili trade center before the arrival of the Portuguese, who established a settlement here in 1531, the city of Tete is located some 260 miles upriver from the sea in northwestern Mozambique. Awarded a Portuguese town charter in 1761, Tete was eventually incorporated as a city within the Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique in 1959.

Opened in 1973, the Samora Machel Bridge links northern and southern Mozambique and also provides road access to neighbouring Zimbabwe and Malawi. The bridge is named for Samora Machel, the first President of an independent Mozambique, who held office from 1975 until his death in a 1986 air crash. There are only three bridges across the lower Zambezi: the other two are the 12,000-foot long Dona Ana Bridge (also near Tete), which was the longest railway bridge in Africa when it opened in 1934, and the Armando Emilio Guebuza Bridge, which opened in 2009 some 200 miles further downriver from Tete.

Answer: Allahabad

Originally called Prayag (meaning "place of offerings"), it was also named Kaushambi and Ilahabad before the British changed it to Allahabad. It is nicknamed "city of Prime Ministers" as seven of the first 15 people to hold that position in India were either born here, graduated from Allahabad University, or were elected from a constituency within the city.

The picture shows All Saints Cathedral (also called 'Patthar Girja', meaning "Church of Stones"). Completed in 1891, this Anglican cathedral was built in the 13th-century Gothic Revival style. It stands at the centre of a large open space at the intersection of Allahabad's two principal roads.