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1 What is created when a loop of a river’s meander is cut off, and the main flow of the river is diverted into a new, straighter channel?
A Oxbow Lake. Initially, this process occurs during a flood event. Consequently, the increased water velocity forces a new, more direct route.
2 Which Park stretches several kilometres along the Moskva River, Russia?
A Filevskiy Park. Additionally, Gorky Park also runs along the river.
3 Which is the main river flowing through the city of Bristol?
A The River Avon, which flows from east to west into the Severn Estuary.
4 Who is the ferryman in Greek mythology who carried the souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx?
A Charon, a grim, shrivelled figure who required a coin (an obol) placed in the mouth of the deceased as payment for passage.
5 In the nursery rhyme “There was a Jolly Miller”, on which river did he live?
A River Dee.
6 Which is the longest river wholly in England that does not empty directly into the sea?
A River Trent, flowing 185 miles to join the Ouse to form the Humber Estuary, which then flows to the North Sea
7 The River Isis goes on to become which English River?
A River Thames. The Isis is the upper, non-tidal part of the Thames.
8 Which mammal is a river horse?
A Hippopotamus. The name “hippopotamus” comes from the ancient Greek words hippos (horse) and potamos (river), literally meaning “horse of the river”.
9 In the middle of which Roman square is Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers?
A Piazza Navona, one of Rome’s most famous and lively Baroque squares, was commissioned by Pope Innocent X to showcase the Catholic Church’s power and the Pamphili family’s glory.
10 Which often fatal disease gets its name from a river in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo)?
A Ebola virus disease, named after the Ebola River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), where it first appeared in 1976, causes severe, often fatal viral hemorrhagic fever.