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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This 315-mile-long river passes through Troy & Albany before hitting the bright lights of New York City

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the Hudson

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| At its northern end, this “colorful” sea branches into the Gulf of Suez on the west & the Gulf of Aqaba on the east

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the Red

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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Originating in the Tanggula Mountains, this is known to many Chinese as “long river” (‘cause it’s 3,900 miles)

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the Yangtze

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Bonn, Germany & Strasbourg, France are cities on this river

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the Rhine

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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Aleutian Islands & the Commander Islands mark this sea’s southern border

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the Bering Sea

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The shallowest of the Great Lakes, it was the site of a U.S. naval victory in 1813

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Lake Erie

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Rising on the Langres Plateau & heading for the capital, it’s the second-longest river in France

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the Seine

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$3000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The name of this South American estuary means “silver river”

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Río de la Plata

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram comparing sea level & various depths on the monitor.</a>) Starting at sea level, <a>here</a> is the Empire State Building & the world’s tallest building, compared to the full depth of <a>this</a> oceanic trench

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the Marianas Trench

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Once the name of a country, this is still the name of a lake in East Central Africa with a depth of over 4,700 feet

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Tanganyika

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Azores are found in this ocean

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Atlantic

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands in front of a map</a>) In 1964, activity in this arm of the South China Sea led to increased U.S. troops in Vietnam

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Gulf of Tonkin

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Gulf of California is also known as the Sea of this man who reached that gulf in 1535

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Cortez

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This strategically important channel connects the Persian Gulf & the Gulf of Oman

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Strait of Hormuz

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Loire flows into this bay that is also called the Gulf of Gascony

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the Bay of Biscay

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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Its greatest known depth, 36,201 feet in the Mariana Trench, is the greatest depth found in any ocean

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the Pacific

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Saginaw Bay, on the eastern coast of Michigan, is an inlet of this Great Lake

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Lake Huron

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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge, one of the world’s longest, spans this Venezuelan lake

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Maracaibo

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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This strait connects the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea

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the Hellespont (or the Dardanelles)

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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This strait connects the Sea of Marmara with the Black Sea

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the Bosporus

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s the world’s second-largest ocean

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the Atlantic

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This most sacred river of India was named for a Hindu goddess

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the Ganges

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$3000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This river carries more water than the Mississippi, Yangtze & Nile combined

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the Amazon

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew points to a map on the monitor.</a>) The Straits of Mackinac separate the Upper & Lower Peninsulas & connect <a>these</a> two Great Lakes

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Huron & Michigan

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Golden Sands is a resort on Bulgaria’s east coast along this sea

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the Black Sea

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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Gulf of Taranto lies between the “heel” & the rest of the “foot” of this country

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Italy

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This river’s source lies in the Plateau of Langres about 18 miles northwest of Dijon

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the Seine

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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Thames & Rhine are among the many rivers emptying into this sea

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the North Sea

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This Asian “sea” is actually a lake that’s more than 4 1/2 times larger than Lake Superior

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the Caspian Sea

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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Seaports on this bay include Chittagong, Bangladesh & Trincomalee, Sri Lanka

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the Bay of Bengal

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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Fur trader James Bridger was the first non-native to visit this saline lake

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the Great Salt Lake

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Shatt Al Arab is formed by the confluence of these 2 rivers

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the Tigris & the Euphrates

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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| A New Deal agency created in 1933 sought to provide electricity for residents of this river’s valley

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the Tennessee

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This triangular bay of the Atlantic is bounded on the east by France & on the south by Spain

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the Bay of Biscay

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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The island of Olkhon is in the center of this deep Siberian lake

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Lake Baikal

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s the sea just southeast of the Gulf of Mexico

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the Caribbean Sea

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s the only Great Lake entirely within the U.S.

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Lake Michigan

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$1200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| India, Bangladesh & Burma border this bay of the Indian Ocean

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the Bay of Bengal

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Most of the Greek Isles are in this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean

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the Aegean Sea

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This Eurasian “sea” is actually the world’s largest lake

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the Caspian Sea

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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Iowa’s lowest point is a the junction of the Des Moines River & this river that forms Iowa’s Eastern border

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the Mississippi River

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Orinoco begins in Venezuela’s state that’s named for this other river

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the Amazon

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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This large African lake has several large gulfs, including Speke & Emin Pasha

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Lake Victoria

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Seattle, Tacoma & Olympia all stand on the banks of this body of water

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Puget Sound

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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This 1,450-mile-long river is joined in Utah by the Green & San Juan Rivers

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the Colorado River

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Although it was discovered in 1610, the Canadian bay’s west coast wasn’t mapped until about 210 years later

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Hudson Bay

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This British river that flows through London is also known as the Isis as it flows through Oxford

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the Thames

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$1200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Tidal ranges in this ocean vary from 38 feet to 2 feet just south of Perth, Western Australia

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the Indian Ocean

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This river flows about 1,150 miles from Lake Hazar in Turkey through Baghdad, on its way to the Persian Gulf

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the Tigris

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This largest lake in the Swiss Alps is actually a wide spot in the Rhone River

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Lake Geneva

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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Lake Nasser was formed in 1968 when the waters of this river were blocked by the Aswan High Dam

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the Nile River

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Banks of pearl-producing mollusks are found around Bahrain, on the Arabian shore of this gulf

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the Persian Gulf

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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Toyama, Wakasa & Ishikari bays are arms of this sea

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the Sea of Japan

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| 3 important cities on this sea include Stockholm, Gdansk & Klaipeda, Lithuania

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the Baltic Sea

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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This large Siberian lake is more than a mile deep at its deepest point

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Lake Baikal

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$None ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This sea hundreds of miles east of Florida has no land boundaries

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the Sargasso Sea

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| About 2/3 of the water in the Nile comes from this river, not the White Nile

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the Blue Nile

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| At the 2 cities named Kansas City, this “stately” river meets the Kansas River

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Missouri

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$1200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Atlantic Ocean began to form during this period of the Mesozoic Era when dinosaurs roamed

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the Jurassic Period (the Jurassic Era accepted)

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| (<a>Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Besh-ba-gowah Pueblo in Phoenix, AZ.</a>) The people who built these structures in Arizona are known to us as Salado, the Spanish word for this nearby river

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Salt

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Red Sea, you see, is considered an arm of this sea

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the Arabian Sea

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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Sigsbee Deep, the deepest point in this gulf, lies about 200 miles southeast of Brownsville, Texas

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Gulf of Mexico

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This ocean is connected to the Atlantic through the Norwegian Sea

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the Arctic Ocean

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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Hula Valley is not in Hawaii but occupies the course of the river north of the Sea of Galilee

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the Jordan River

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Quebec’s Ungava Peninsula provides the eastern shore of this large bay

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Hudson Bay

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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Crimean Peninsula is bordered by 2 seas: the Sea of Azov & this much bigger one

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the Black Sea

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In 1875, Sir Henry Morton Stanley circumnavigated this largest African lake

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Lake Victoria

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This arm of the Mediterranean separates Italy from Croatia & Albania

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Adriatic Sea

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$1200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Gulf of Finland & the Gulf of Bothnia both extend from this sea

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Baltic Sea

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This Arctic sea is named for the British naval officer who devised a wind scale

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Beaufort Sea

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It sounds servile, but this 11,000-square-mile Canadian lake is actually named for a tribe of Native Americans

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Great Slave Lake

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| From Germany, this river flows into the Netherlands, where it divides into 3 branches: the Waal, the Lek & the Ijssel

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the Rhine

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Both the Neman & Vistula Rivers flow into this European sea

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the Baltic

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$3000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The largest lake in this South American country is a reservoir, W.J. Van Blommestein Lake

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Suriname

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This bay off Pitcairn Island is named for the ship that was burned & sunk in its waters on January 23, 1790

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Bounty Bay

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| 2 straits off Newfoundland lead into this gulf; the Strait of Belle Isle & Cabot Strait

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the Gulf of St. Lawrence

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This large lake straddles France & Switzerland; Switzerland has the largest part

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Lake Geneva

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| (<a>Jon of the Clue Crew gives the clue from Oregon.</a>) On October 16, 1805, Lewis & Clark reached <a>this</a> river–the final water link to take them to the Pacific

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the Columbia

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$1200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This country’s Lake Taal sits in the crater of an old volcano on the island of Luzon

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the Philippines

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Green River is its largest tributary; they meet up in southeastern Utah

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the Colorado River

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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The south arm of this sea, named for the Englishman who explored it in 1841, is an ice shelf

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the Ross Sea

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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| After Lake Superior, this African lake is the largest body of fresh water in the world

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Lake Victoria

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Persian Gulf is an arm of the Arabian Sea, which is part of this ocean

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the Indian Ocean

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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In the 1770s James Cook explored this sea between Australia & New Zealand

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the Tasman Sea

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This longest river in Ireland nearly divides the country in two

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the Shannon

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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Tervasaari.</a>) Tervasaari, just off Helsinki, sits in <a>this arm</a> of the Baltic Sea

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the Gulf of Finland

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Near the equator this ocean stretches about 12,000 miles from Colombia to the Malay Peninsula

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the Pacific

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Strait of Dover is the narrowest part of this body of water

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the English Channel

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s the fourth-largest of the Great Lakes & the one reaching farthest south

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Lake Erie

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Yukon River flows northwest into Alaska before emptying into this sea

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the Bering Sea

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Rising in the Valdai Hills of Russia, this is Europe’s longest river

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the Volga

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The lake James Fenimore Cooper called Horicon is now called this, after the second British king of that name

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Lake George

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Created by the Aswan High Dam, the artificial reservoir Lake Nasser is shared by these 2 countries

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Egypt & Sudan

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$1200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| (<a>Cheryl of the Clue Crew strolls a scenic walkway by a riverbank at Gorky Park.</a>) Famous as the setting of a book and a movie, Gorky Park lies on the right bank of this river

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the Moscow River

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This lake lies behind the Parker Dam on the border of Arizona & California

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Lake Havasu

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from a marina in Greece.</a>) The island of Aegina is in what the Greeks call Saronikos Kolpos, or what we call the Saronic this

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the Saronic Gulf

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$None ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This sea’s south boundary is a line from the southern tip of India to the eastern tip of Africa

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the Arabian Sea

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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Marseille & Sete are major ports of the Gulf of Lion, an arm of this sea

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the Mediterranean

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99
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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Ocean tides occur in this river at Limerick, about 70 miles from its mouth at the Atlantic

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the Shannon

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$1200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The General Rafael Urdaneta Bridge spans the northern outlet of this lake at the Gulf of Venezuela

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(Lake) Maracaibo

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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The name of this waterfall on the Brazil-Argentina border is derived from a Guarani word meaning “great water”

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Iguassú

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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Kerch Strait connects this sea with a large bay to the north called the Sea of Azov

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the Black Sea

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103
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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| A cruise on this sea might include stops in St. Thomas, Puerto Rico & Martinique

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the Caribbean

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104
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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Bay of Bengal is an arm of this ocean

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the Indian Ocean

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105
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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In April 1859, at Port Said, digging began on this artificial waterway

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the Suez Canal

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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| (<a>Sarah of the Clue crew reports from a lakefront in Chicago, IL.</a>) Lake Michigan is larger than you think. Scientists say it’s actually part of <a>this</a> Great Lake that it joins via the Straits of Mackinaw

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Lake Huron

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107
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$2200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The names of these two important rivers that rise in the Swiss Alps differ by just a vowel

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the Rhine & the Rhône

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108
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$None ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Latin name of this waterway is Fretum Herculeum

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the Strait of Gibraltar

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109
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$None ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This sea that extends about 1,200 miles was referred to in ancient times as the Erythraean Sea

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the Red Sea

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110
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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| According to Hindu myth, this sacred river emanated from the toe of Vishnu

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the Ganges

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111
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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Ding dong! This river calling from Northamptonshire, England, flowing southwest to the Severn

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the Avon

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$1200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This lake is the chief source of the Nile River

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Victoria

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113
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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Lake of Neuchatel is the largest lake entirely within this country

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Switzerland

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114
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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This bay noted for its high tides separates New Brunswick & Nova Scotia

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the Bay of Fundy

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115
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$None ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Rush-Bagot Agreement of 1817 between the U.S. & Great Britain limited naval power on these bodies of water

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the Great Lakes or Lake Champlain

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116
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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Nunivak Island & the Pribilof Islands are in this sea

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the Bering Sea

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117
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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| (Alex: Here’s Jeff Probst in South America [Amazon]) The decomposition of organic matter & a low silt content give the Rio Negro this color water, hence its name

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black

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118
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$1200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Cinque Terre, 5 fishing villages on the Italian Riviera, overlook the Ligurian Sea, an arm of this sea

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the Mediterranean

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119
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$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The French call this body of water the Pas de Calais; we call it this

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the Strait of Dover

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120
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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The chief cities on this river in Oregon include Portland, Salem & Eugene

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the Willamette

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121
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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In 1975 the United Kingdom began piping oil from this sea to its shores

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the North Sea

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122
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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The St. Mary’s River connects Lake Superior to this second-largest Great Lake

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Lake Huron

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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| 12,500’ above sea level, this South American lake bordering Bolivia & Peru is the world’s most navigable lake

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Lake Titicaca

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124
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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| At Khartoum, Sudan these colorful branches meet to form the Nile River

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the Blue Nile & the White Nile

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125
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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| After a 1,750-mile trip from Germany, this river breaks into 3 branches in Romania before emptying into the Black Sea

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the Danube

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126
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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Scientists believe this sea was formed when the Arabian Peninsula was torn from Africa 20 million years ago

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Red Sea

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127
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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Islands in this gulf include Bahrain, Kharg & Bubiyan

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Persian Gulf

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128
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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| A small portion of Russia is separated from the motherland & lies between Poland & Lithuania on this sea

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Baltic Sea

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129
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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In the mid-1970s an oil pipeline was built between this Alaskan bay & the city of Valdez on Prince William Sound

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Prudhoe Bay

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130
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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In 1957 a deep channel was completed allowing ocean ships to reach this largest Venezuelan lake

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Lake Maracaibo

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131
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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This river’s system gathers its waters from 9 countries, including Kenya, Ethiopia & Egypt

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Nile

132
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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s the gulf from which the Gulf Stream got its name

A

Gulf of Mexico

133
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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This sacred river begins in an ice cave in India’s Uttaranchal state

A

Ganges

134
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$1200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s the only ocean that touches the shores of Europe, Asia & North America

A

Arctic

135
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Of the 5 Great Lakes, Lake Erie lies farthest south, this one farthest north

A

Lake Superior

136
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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Cap Gris-Nez, which extends into this strait, is France’s closest point to Great Britain

A

Strait of Dover

137
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$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The channel which separates the U.S. & British Virgin Islands is named for this Engllish circumnavigator

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Sir Francis Drake

138
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$1200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| An inlet of the South China Sea, it was formerly known as the Gulf of Siam

A

Gulf of Thailand

139
Q

$1600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| At 4,710 feet deep, this African lake is the world’s second-deepest lake, trailing only Lake Baikal

A

Lake Tanganyika

140
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$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The 25th of April Bridge, one of the world’s longest suspension bridges, spans this river in Lisbon

A

Tagus

141
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$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This African river’s drainage basin, the world’s longest, covers 35 degrees of latitude

A

the Nile

142
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In area this Canadian bay is more than 3 times as large as all the Great Lakes combined

A

Hudson Bay

143
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| At the point where it enters the Caspian Sea, this Russian river is 92 feet below sea level

A

the Volga

144
Q

$700 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Colombia’s Gulf of Uraba is the southernmost extremity of this sea

A

the Caribbean Sea

145
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$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Large banks of pearl-producing mollusks are found on this gulf’s western shore on the Arabian Peninsula

A

Persian Gulf

146
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$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| These 2 “stately” rivers are the longest in the U.S.

A

the Mississippi & the Missouri

147
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Mespotamia, where many early civilizations developed, was located between these 2 rivers

A

the Tigris & the Euphrates

148
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This large lake is the chief source of the Nile River

A

Lake Victoria

149
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Less than half the size of the Pacific, it’s the third-largest ocean

A

Indian Ocean

150
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$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Sea of Crete is the southernmost part of this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean

A

Aegean Sea

151
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This continent still has a Van Diemen Gulf, though Van Diemen’s Land became Tasmania

A

Australia

152
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Archipelago de los Colorados lies in this gulf along Cuba’s northwest coast

A

the Gulf of Mexico

153
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$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This sea is about 1,400 miles long, running from the Strait of Bab el Mandeb to Suez, Egypt

A

the Red Sea

154
Q

$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In 1898 Dewey won a great victory in this bay; now you can see lovely sunsets over it

A

Manila Bay

155
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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| “Servile” name of the fifth-largest North American lake; you’ll find Yellowknife on its shores

A

the Great Slave Lake

156
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$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Canada’s “Great Bear” one covers over 12,000 square miles

A

Lake

157
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Some geographers say there’s an “Antarctic” one of these, formed by the southern parts of the big 3

A

Ocean

158
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$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| A constricted passageway, specifically one that follows “Verrazano” in the name of a bridge

A

Narrow

159
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Listen – Albemarle, Pamlico & Long Island are famous ones

A

Sounds

160
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| On Florida’s coast, Waccasassa is a bay, but Horseshoe, just north, is this 4-letter inlet

A

Cove

161
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In 700 B.C. Greeks first crossed this sea to colonize Samothrace

A

Aegean Sea

162
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Bahrain is composed of several islands in the Gulf of Bahrain & this larger gulf

A

Persian Gulf

163
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Indenting the coastline of Alaska, Norton Sound & Kuskokwim Bay are inlets of this sea

A

Bering Sea

164
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Korean Peninsula borders the Yellow Sea to the west & this sea to the east

A

Sea of Japan

165
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$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Some say the Weddell Sea is an arm of the Antarctic Ocean; others say it’s part of this larger ocean

A

Atlantic Ocean

166
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Foxe Channel connects the Arctic Ocean with this huge Canadian bay

A

Hudson Bay

167
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The main falls of this African waterfall lie between Livingstone & Cataract Islands

A

Victoria Falls

168
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Latvia’s capital shares its name with this nearby gulf

A

Gulf of Riga

169
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Carlsberg Ridge, Madagascar Basin & Java Trench are underwater geographic features of this ocean

A

Indian Ocean

170
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Sebastian Cabot gave South America’s Rio de la Plata its name thinking there were deposits of this nearby

A

Silver

171
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Century in which Europeans first visited Lake Chad

A

19th century

172
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| India attempted to put a satellite into orbit in March 1987, but wound up putting it into this bay

A

Bay of Bengal

173
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| To get to the bottom of this sea, try the Cayman Trench

A

Caribbean Sea

174
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Ungava Peninsula of Quebec juts into a bay & strait named for this explorer

A

Henry Hudson

175
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Using reinforced concrete, Italian engineer Riccardo Morandi bridged this Venezuelan lake

A

Lake Maracaibo

176
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This South American river carries nearly 20% of the Earth’s total water discharge to the ocean

A

Amazon

177
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Churchill, Manitoba is the chief port on this Canadian bay

A

Hudson Bay

178
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This river begins in Turkey’s eastern Anatolian Highlands & flows through Baghdad on its way to the Persian Gulf

A

Tigris

179
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Chinese call this sea Huang Hai due to the tint of the waters along its shore

A

Yellow Sea

180
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In 1994 many of the beautiful islands in this Vietnamese gulf were designated a world heritage site by UNESCO

A

Gulf of Tonkin

181
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s the saltiest of the oceans & the second largest

A

Atlantic Ocean

182
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| 2 of South America’s longest rivers, the Madeira & the Purus, flow into this even longer river

A

Amazon

183
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| For about 70 miles the Douro River forms the border between these 2 Iberian countries

A

Spain & Portugal

184
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This sea may have been named for Theseus’ father

A

Aegean Sea

185
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| To reach the Bay of Tangier, head straight through this strait

A

Strait of Gibraltar

186
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s not only the greatest Great Lake, it’s also the largest body of fresh water in the world

A

Lake Superior

187
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s the “Gulf” in the Gulf War of 1991

A

Persian Gulf

188
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| According to the New Testament, it was the site of Jesus’ baptism

A

River Jordan

189
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Phnom Penh in Cambodia & Vientiane in Laos are the largest urban centers along this river

A

Mekong

190
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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This Swiss-French lake was formed by a natural damming of the Rhone River

A

Lake Geneva

191
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$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Windemere is the largest lake in this country’s Lake District

A

England

192
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Baku in Azerbaijan & Astrakhan in Russia are ports on this sturgeon-filled sea

A

Caspian Sea

193
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| A 1795 land fraud case concerned land near the Yazoo, a tributary of this American river

A

Mississippi River

194
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This bay separating Nova Scotia & New Brunswick has high tides of up to 70 feet

A

Bay of Fundy

195
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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Weddell Sea, bordering this continent, was named for James Weddell, who charted it in 1823

A

Antarctica

196
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$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s the westernmost & northernmost of the Great Lakes

A

Lake Superior

197
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This sea is divided into several basins, including Yucatan, Colombian, Venezuelan & Tobago

A

Caribbean Sea

198
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Ukranians call this sea Chorne More

A

Black Sea

199
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The ferry from Villa San Giovanni in Calabria, Italy to Sicily crosses this strait

A

Strait of Messina

200
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Located in east-central Africa, at 420 miles it’s the world’s largest freshwater lake

A

Lake Tanganyika

201
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Japan & Peru Currents are among those that warm & cool coastal areas of this ocean

A

Pacific Ocean

202
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| An undersea sill from Tunisia to Sicily splits this sea into eastern & western basins

A

Mediterranean Sea

203
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This sea is less saline than its Atlantic connection due to fresh water from the Thames & other rivers

A

North Sea

204
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Due to changes in air pressure, the water level of this Swiss-French lake can vary as much as 5’ in 30 min.

A

Lake Geneva

205
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Except for its easternmost extremity, this strait lies entirely within Chilean waters

A

Strait of Magellan

206
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s the second-largest body of water in the world

A

Atlantic Ocean

207
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Vacation on the French Riviera & you’ll spend time on this sea

A

the Mediterranean

208
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Sittwe, Burma & Calcutta, India are major ports on this bay

A

the Bay of Bengal

209
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Kagera River is the longest & most important tributary of this African lake

A

Lake Victoria

210
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Named for an explorer, it’s Canada’s longest river

A

the Mackenzie

211
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This Canadian province’s largest lake is Lake Mistassini, about 350 miles north of Montreal

A

Quebec

212
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Namibia’s coastline is provided by this body of water

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Atlantic Ocean

213
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| An agricultural area through which this Scottish river flows is the home of a breed of horse

A

Clyde

214
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This river rises in the Black Forest & flows easterly about 1,770 miles, where it empties into the Black Sea

A

Rhine

215
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Ucayali & Maranon rivers converge near Nauta, Peru, forming this river

A

Amazon

216
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The name of this ocean means “peaceful”

A

the Pacific

217
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s the smallest & the most easterly of the 5 Great Lakes

A

Lake Ontario

218
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Noted for its salmon fishing, the Tay is the longest river of this United Kingdom country

A

Scotland

219
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Lake Van in Anatolia is this country’s largest lake

A

Turkey

220
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Botany Bay on the coast of New South Wales, Australia is an inlet of this sea

A

the Tasman Sea

221
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The mysterious Bermuda Triangle region lies within this ocean

A

Atlantic Ocean

222
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it was built on the banks of this river

A

Tiber

223
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Aleutian Islands separate the Pacific Ocean from this sea

A

Bering Sea

224
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Fed by the Jordan River, it’s the saltiest body of water on Earth

A

Dead Sea

225
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Belgium’s seacoast, about 40 miles long, is on this sea

A

North Sea

226
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The “blue” branch of this river rises in the Ethiopian highlands

A

Nile

227
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Pas de Calais is the French name for this strait between France & England

A

Strait of Dover

228
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Albania lies on the eastern shore of this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean

A

Adriatic

229
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Lake Toba on Sumatra is this country’s largest lake

A

Indonesia

230
Q

$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Dnestr & Vistula rivers rise in these mountains

A

Carpathians

231
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In antiquity this “mother” river of Russia was known as the Rha or Oaros

A

Volga

232
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Gulf of Suez & the Gulf of Aqaba are extensions of this sea

A

Red Sea

233
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This largest African lake is the largest source of the Nile River

A

Lake Victoria

234
Q

$2000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| For most of the year, ice floes & icebergs prevent navigation in this bay between Greenland & NE Canada

A

Baffin Bay

235
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Bay of Campeche is a southern extension of this gulf

A

Gulf of Mexico

236
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Adriatic & Ionian Seas are arms of this larger sea

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Mediterranean

237
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Potomac & Patuxent Rivers flow into this bay

A

Chesapeake Bay

238
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| During its 1980s war with Iraq, Iran threatened to block this strait to all traffic

A

Strait of Hormuz

239
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Lake Neuchatel is the largest lake entirely within this European country’s boundaries

A

Switzerland

240
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The longest river in Italy has this short name

A

Po

241
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Reports of this Scottish lake being inhabited by a monster date back to the 6th century

A

Loch Ness

242
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$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| One of the world’s largest artificial lakes is Lake Nasser, a reservoir on this river

A

Nile River

243
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Named for a French statesman, this Louisiana lake is about half the size of Rhode Island

A

Lake Pontchartrain

244
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Spanish Armada sailed through this bay immediately before reaching the English Channel

A

Bay of Biscay

245
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$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This longest river of southeast Asia flows through China, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, & Vietnam

A

Mekong River

246
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This largest ocean supplies about half of the world’s yearly supply of fish & shellfish

A

the Pacific Ocean

247
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Chief ports on this gulf include Kuwait City & Al Basrah, Iraq

A

the Persian Gulf

248
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Chicago Sanitary & Ship Canal connects this Great Lake with the Mississippi River

A

Lake Michigan

249
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The German name for this lake on the border of Switzerland & France is Genfersee

A

Lake Geneva

250
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Relax, have a rum & enjoy the sun on Walter Fletcher Beach on this Jamaican bay

A

Montego Bay

251
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Several structures called London Bridge have spanned this river, the latest completed in 1972

A

the Thames

252
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Kentucky’s lowest point, 25

A

the Mississippi

253
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Sumatra & the Malay Peninsula are 2 of the land areas dividing the Pacific Ocean from this ocean

A

the Indian Ocean

254
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Shallow, saline Lake Eyre is this continent’s lowest point

A

Australia

255
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Nizhneangarsk & Listvyanka are ports on this Siberian lake

A

Lake Baikal

256
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This South American river has more than a thousand known tributaries

A

the Amazon

257
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Lake Manapouri on South Island is one of this country’s deepest lakes

A

New Zealand

258
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Bordered by Ukraine & Russia, the Sea of Azov is a northern arm of this sea

A

the Black Sea

259
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Hellespont is the ancient name for this strait that connects the Sea of Marmara with the Aegean Sea

A

the Dardanelles

260
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This “Great” lake is the largest lake entirely within Canada

A

the Great Bear Lake

261
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| To Hindus, the Narmada River is 2nd in sacredness only to this one

A

The Ganges

262
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This largest African lake is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania & Kenya

A

Lake Victoria

263
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The U.S.-Russian boundary passes through this strait

A

Bering Strait

264
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Vatican City lies on the west bank of this river

A

the Tiber

265
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This bay that shares its name with the Philippine capital is nearly landlocked

A

Manila Bay

266
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Major rivers entering this gulf include the Rio Grande & the Mississippi

A

Gulf of Mexico

267
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This country’s lowest point, about 140’ below sea level, is at Lake Enriquillo near its border with Haiti

A

Dominican Republic

268
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Cape May, New Jersey lies on this bay

A

Delaware Bay

269
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Brahmaputra flows into the Bay of Bengal & the Loire flows into this bay

A

Bay of Biscay

270
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This Venezuelan lake has been dredged so transport ships can carry oil from it

A

Lake Maracaibo

271
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The temperature & salinity of this smallest ocean vary as the ice cover freezes & melts

A

Arctic Ocean

272
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| U.S. Naval personnel in Cuba call it “Gitmo” for short

A

Guantanamo Bay

273
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It separates Tierra del Fuego from the tip of the South American mainland

A

Straits of Magellan

274
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Site of a massive oil spill in 1989, it was named for the third son of King George III

A

Prince William Sound

275
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Ciudad Bolivar & Ciudad Guayana are the major cities on this river

A

Orinoco

276
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Though this ocean is half the size of the Pacific, its drainage area is 4 times as large

A

Atlantic Ocean

277
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Tajo is the Portuguese name for this river

A

Tagus

278
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Gulf of Papua on the coast of New Guinea is an inlet of this tropical sea

A

Coral Sea

279
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Red River of Asia empties into this gulf

A

Gulf of Tonkin

280
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Located in the Highlands, Loch Lomond is this country’s largest lake

A

Scotland

281
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Winston Churchill reportedly called this strait “The world’s best tank trap”

A

Strait of Dover

282
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Associated with a beautiful siren, the Lorelei is a famous rock in this river

A

Rhine

283
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s China’s longest river, after the Yangtze

A

Yellow

284
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The maximum depth of this bay off the coast of France & Spain is 15,525 feet

A

Bay of Biscay

285
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Paris’ right & left banks are north & south of this river

A

Seine

286
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Straits of Florida & the Yucatan Channel are this gulf’s only outlets

A

the Gulf of Mexico

287
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This bay in Virginia & Maryland is the largest on the Atlantic coast of the U.S.

A

the Chesapeake

288
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This sea is sometimes referred to as the “American Mediterranean”

A

the Caribbean

289
Q

$1500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This river flows over 2,200 miles from the Valdai Hills NW of Moscow to the Caspian Sea

A

the Volga

290
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This African river enters the Mediterranean through two main branches: the Damietta & the Rosetta

A

The Nile

291
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Entrances to this sea include the Yucatan Channel & the Panama Canal

A

Caribbean Sea

292
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Venice is one of the chief ports on this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean

A

Adriatic Sea

293
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| A major source of hydroelectric power, it forms most of the border between Oregon & Washington

A

the Columbia River

294
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| An inlet of the Beaufort Sea, this bay is the starting point of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline

A

Prudhoe Bay

295
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This ocean’s deepest point, about 28,000 feet, is in the Puerto Rico Trench

A

Atlantic

296
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Navy shipyard at Bremerton in Washington state is on this inlet of the Pacific

A

Puget Sound

297
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Quesham, the largest island in the Persian Gulf, is located in this strait

A

Strait of Hormuz

298
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Divided between Switzerland & France, it’s the largest Alpine lake in Europe

A

Lake Geneva

299
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| An underwater cable in this sea provides communication between Australia & New Zealand

A

Tasman Sea

300
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Father Louis L’Enfant, who accompanied LaSalle, was the first white man to view these falls in 1678

A

Niagara Falls

301
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This Canadian bay has the longest shoreline of any bay

A

Hudson Bay

302
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The island of Corregidor guards the entrance to this Phillippine bay

A

Manila Bay

303
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This largest tributary of the Columbia River rises in Yellowstone National Park

A

Snake River

304
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Gulf of Aden separates Somalia and this country on the Arabian Peninsula

A

Yemen

305
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The name for this sea comes from the Latin for “in the middle of land”

A

Mediterranean

306
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Tasman sea separates Australia & this country

A

New Zealand

307
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| It’s New Mexico’s largest & longest river

A

the Rio Grande

308
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The name of this river which empties into the Bay of Bengal means “the son of Brahma”

A

the Brahmaputra

309
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Connecticut is bordered on the south by this arm of the Atlantic

A

Long Island Sound

310
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| To go from Philadelphia to New Jersey, you cross this river that shares its name with another state

A

the Delaware

311
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Cubans call it Bahia de Cochinos; we call it this

A

the Bay of Pigs

312
Q

$600 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Incan ruins have been found on islands in this lake on the border of Bolivia & Peru

A

Lake Titicaca

313
Q

$800 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Odessa is the largest Soviet port on this sea

A

the Black Sea

314
Q

$1000 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| In sailing from the English Channel to the North Sea, one would pass through this strait

A

the Strait of Dover

315
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The water in this large Utah lake is saltier than ocean water

A

The Great Salt Lake

316
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Winter ocean air west of Norway is over 40 degrees warmer than average for that latitude because of this current

A

The Gulf Stream

317
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| This ocean has the greatest length of coastline because of its irregular shape

A

Atlantic

318
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Changing monsoon winds cause seasonal reverses of surface water movement in this Indian Ocean bay

A

Bay of Bengal

319
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Once part of the Gulf of California, it’s now the largest natural lake entirely within the state

A

Salton Sea

320
Q

$None ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Bordering on Mich. & N.Y., these 2 Great Lakes are the only ones to border on 1 state each

A

Lake Huron & Lake Ontario

321
Q

$100 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Narrow Biblical sea between Saudi Arabia & Africa that’s an intense blue-green in color

A

Red Sea

322
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| China’s Huang River carries large amounts of straw-colored earth into this sea

A

Yellow Sea

323
Q

$300 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Name of this sea is said to allude not to its dark water but its storms

A

Black Sea

324
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Icebreakers now keep Port of Archangel, on this appropriately-named sea, open in winter

A

White Sea

325
Q

$500 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| Dutch settlers named this longest river of South Africa not for its color but their royal family

A

Orange

326
Q

$200 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| The Shannon River, longest in the British Isles, is in this country

A

Ireland

327
Q

$400 ||| Category: BODIES OF WATER ||| A bridge has been proposed to connect Long Island & Rhode Island, across this waterway

A

the Long Island Sound

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