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1. The fourth longest river in the UK flows through five counties--Northamptonshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk--on its way to the North Sea. Name this river.
2. On which river was the world's second largest flood barrier opened in 1982 to protect one of Great Britain's great cities?
3. As it flows through Oxford, the Thames, one of Great Britain's major rivers, is known by a different name. What is this name?
4. Which two British rivers are homonyms of adjacent letters of the alphabet?
5. On 28th December 1879, seventy five people lost their lives when the rail bridge between Dundee and Wormit collapsed in a storm as a train was passing over it. In which river did the victims drown?
6. On which British river do surfers gather in the spring to ride a tidal bore upstream, made possible because of the estuary of this river? It has the second highest tidal range in the world (about 15 metres).
7. Which river, rising within a few miles of the source of the Clyde and Annan Rivers, forms the border between Scotland and England in its lower reaches before reaching the sea at Berwick?
8. Rising in Staffordshire, this major British river flows through three towns which take its name: Stoke-on-___, Burton upon ___ and Newark-on-___. This river also flows through the city most closely associated with Robin Hood. Name it.
9. Over which British river can you cross from West Lothian into Fife on one of two side-by-side bridges? One is a rail bridge opened in 1890 and the other is a road bridge opened in 1964.
10. Which British river, rising in the Brecon Beacons, reaches the sea just after it passes the Millennium Stadium? Its name is also what the English call Welshmen.
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