Rivers
This river’s annual flood is fed by monsoon precipitation in the Ethiopian highlands.
What is the Nile?
Famous for dates, coffee and horses, this desert is home to the birthplace of a major modern religion.
What is the Arabian Desert?
These two natural disasters differ only in name but not in level of destruction.
What are Hurricane and Typhoon (also accepting Tropical Cyclone)?
Climate change is thawing the contest for this once much-desired trade route, the search for which launched many expeditions in Canada.
What is the Northwest Passage?
A magnetic point and a fitness phenomenon inspired by a taboo occupation.
What is North Pole dancing?
This general famously crossed the Delaware River in a surprise Christmas attack on Hessian mercenary forces.
Who is George Washington?
Despite it’s name translating to “the greatest desert”, this desert is actually the world’s third largest if you go by the scientific definition as an area that receives less than 250 mm of precipitation (as measured by a 203mm diameter rain gauge).
What is the Sahara?
This volcano overlooking Naples has over thirty known eruptions.
What is Mount Vesuvius?
The list of memorials to this early explorer of Canada is very long and includes: Lakes, Mountains, Regions, rocks and Towns.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
An area of low-lying land adjacent to a river and a somewhat derogatory term for an ordinary-looking woman.
What is a floodplain Jane?
Two countries share the name of this river that is second only to the Amazon in annual flow.
What is the Congo?
These desert dwelling people are famous traders and warriors whose lifestyle, although threatened and altered, exists into the modern day.
Who are Bedoiuns?
This rotund American politician crossed party lines to deliver disaster relief with Barack Hussein Obama in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Who is Chris Christie?
Construction on this major work started in 1950 after a 1949 Parliamentary Act of the same name.
What is the Trans-Canada Highway?
The edge of a flowing body of water and a financial crime.
What is river bank fraud?
“Baiji” or river dolphins in Chinese were purportedly spotted in this river in 2016 (home to the world’s largest dam) despite being officially declared extinct in 2006.
What is the Yangtze?
This “Great” Australian desert is named after a nineteenth century British Monarch.
What is the Great Victoria Desert?
An earthquake and the following Tsunami caused a nuclear emergency when the power plant at this site was compromised.
What is Fukushima?
This river has overflowed it’s banks many times but the 1997 flood was particularly devastating to North Dakota, Minnesota and Manitoba.
What is the Red River?
A connection between two continents (or islands) and a social game-playing group frequented by the elderly.
What is a land bridge club?
This river which served as the North East frontier of the Roman Empire for long periods of time passes through four European capitals: Vienna, Bratislava, Budapest and Belgrade.
What is the Danube?
This project with an ancient namesake involves plans to plant over 88 billion trees and will take 50 years to complete.
What is the Great Green Wall?
This 1954 Hurricane killed 81 people in Canada after striking land in Haiti and the Carolinas, it’s flood-levels mark the lowest permissible building locations in much of Toronto.
What is Hurricane Hazel?
The “Legend lives on from the Chippewa on down” for this great-lakes vessel after it was memorialized in a 1976 song bearing it’s name.
What is the Edmund Fitzgerald?
Massive layers of ice covering vast areas and paper containing the notes to a song.
What is ice sheet music?