Games

Shoeless Trivia: American Rivers

I’ll take domestic hydrological geography for $600, Alex.

  1. The Ohio river forms a significant part of the northern border of two U.S. states. Name either.
  2. Name any of the three tributaries that form the headwaters of the Missouri River. These headwaters were discovered and named by Lewis and Clark in 1805.
  3. What painter, whose 1836 work commonly known as The Oxbow is shown below, is generally considered the founder of the Hudson River School?amrivers1
  4. What 1972 film based on a James Dickey novel was filmed in Georgia on and around the Chattooga river, standing in for the fictional Cahulawassee?
  5. The name of what Civil War veteran, naturalist, and second director of the U.S. Geological Survey has been redacted from the image below?amrivers2

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  1. West Virginia, Kentucky
  2. Jefferson River, Madison River, Gallatin River
  3. Thomas Cole
  4. Deliverance
  5. John Wesley Powell

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