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Spring/Summer 2006: Week 1, Round 4
Geography: Lakes

 

1. The largest lake in Africa was named by British explorer John Hanning Speke?

 

A: Lake Victoria

 

2. Which large lake, partly in Israel, and partly in Jordan, is the lowest surface point on earth?

 

A: Dead Sea

 

3. The deepest lake is the world is in Russia. What is its name?

 

A: Lake Baikal

 

4. A lake of northwest England in the Cumbrian Mountains is the largest lake in England. What is it called?

 

A: Lake Windermere

 

5. What is the most usual name for the lake on the Swiss-French border, also called Lake Leman?

 

A: Lake Geneva

 

6. Which saltwater lake between Europe and Asia is the largest inland body of water in the world?

 

A: Caspian Sea

 

7. David Livingstone was found by H.M. Stanley in 1871 at Ujiji on the shore of which African lake?

 

A: Lake Tanganyika

 

8. What is both the largest freshwater lake and is also the highest commercially navigable lake in the World?8

 

A: Lake Titicaca

 

9. What is the only great lake whose border is not shared by both Canada and the U.S.?

 

A: Lake Michigan

 

10. What is the largest artificial lake in North America?

 

A: Lake Mead

 

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[8] The question as posed cannot be answered as there is no lake that satisfies both parts of the question. The first part presumably was intended to be "the largest freshwater lake in South America". Some QMs caught this and either omitted the first part of the question or told the quizzees to ignore that part. In some games the error was not spotted, and, in three, "Lake Superior" was protested; those protests have been accepted and points awarded.