World's Biggest Lakes Quiz

Balqash should be accepted as a correct answer.

I get the Caspian Sea, but no websites, for some reason, accepts Maracaibo as an inland lake...grrr

Caspian Sea is an inland sea. Maracaibo is a bay, not a lake. Its just called Lake Maracaibo, but its open to the Caribbean Sea.

Uh, time to study my lakes!

Just a bit of info..... The determination of the Caspian Sea as a lake or a sea is in dispute and under negotiation between the 5 littoral states bordering it. A previous agreement between the Soviet Union and Iran listed it as a lake but since the break-up of the USSR the new littoral nations have refused to acknoweldge the previous treaty. If the Caspian were a lake the resources (oil, gas, fishing) and area would be split evenly between the five but if it is a sea the borders would be drawn out from the borders of each nation which would mean Iran would have considerably less territory under their control. There are other concerns but this is the primary issue.

Lake Maracaibo has been shown to be a lake and has long considered to be a lake.

[citation needed] Wikipedia leaves it out of their list, as it does other reservoirs and lagoons, such as Turkmenistan's Garabogazköl and Ghana's Lake Volta.

13/20 and i'm 11 :D

I was surprised to not find the Aral Sea on this list. I know it's been shrinking a lot, but still! So I went to Wikipedia to check, and was shocked to find out that it doesn't even exist anymore! D:

Balkhash is not working! I tried it many times too.

You are incorrect. Geologically, they are one lake. It has always been the case.

No, that's never been the case. It makes no sense. They are separated by the Strait of Mackinac.

Correct. They are one.

Geologically the gulf of mexico and the mississippi river are connected together but they are still referred to as two distinct bodies of water. I also disagree with grouping them together.

I agree with you. Look at the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. Nobody calls that whole thing the Atlantic Ocean. They are separated by the Strait of Gibraltar which is an even wider gap than the Strait of Mackinac by several miles, yet they're still considered different bodies of water. Look at all the different seas that are connected to the Mediterranean. There's a much stronger case for calling that whole thing the Mediterranean Sea than there is for calling Michigan and Huron one lake, yet we don't do that. My uncle who is a geologist also disagrees with grouping them together.

i knew baikal. it was on the tip of my tongue. i tried baikan, balkan, balkai, bankal, baklain, etc. and whatever. i tried it like 20 times but i just didn't get baikal =(

Why not Black Sea?

bosporus, dardanelles, etc