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Its shores are the lowest land-based elevation on Earth | Dead Sea | 100%
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Settled by Mormon pioneers | Great Salt Lake | 100%
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Largest freshwater lake in the world | Lake Superior | 100%
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Often called the "highest navigable lake" in the world; largest in South America | Lake Titicaca | 100%
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Scottish lake with a famous monster | Loch Ness | 100%
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Israeli lake where Jesus is said to have walked on water | Sea of Galilee | 91%
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Yellowknife is located along its coast | Great Slave Lake | 89%
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The cities of Kampala, Mwanza and Kisumu overlook it | Lake Victoria | 88%
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World's oldest and deepest lake | Lake Baikal | 86%
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The St. Lawrence River begins at the outflow of this lake | Lake Ontario | 83%
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Largest lake located entirely in Canada | Great Bear Lake | 80%
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Shallow African lake that has shrunk by 90% since 1960 | Lake Chad | 80%
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Y-shaped Italian lake for the rich and famous | Lake Como | 77%
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Largest inland sea in the world | Caspian Sea | 75%
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Its main outlet is the Niagara Falls | Lake Erie | 73%
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Henry Stanley found Dr. David Livingstone on the shores of this lake in Africa | Lake Tanganyika | 70%
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World's largest lake located in only one country | Lake Michigan | 67%
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The Californian host of the 1960 Winter Olympics, Squaw Valley, is located near it | Lake Tahoe | 67%
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Largest Scottish loch (by surface area) | Loch Lomond | 67%
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Biggest freshwater lake in Argentina (hint: just change one vowel from the country's name) | Argentino Lake | 64%
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Man-made lake on the Aswan Dam that was named after an Egyptian President | Lake Nasser | 64%
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This former second-largest inland sea was nearly destroyed by Soviet irrigation | Aral Sea | 63%
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Largest natural lake in Venezuela; namesake of a major coastal Spanish city | Lake Valencia | 63%
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Great African lake that was named in honor of Queen Victoria's consort | Lake Albert | 62%
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Lake in Central America infested with freshwater sharks | Lake Nicaragua | 62%
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Has more fish species than any other | Lake Malawi | 60%
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8% of it lies in Manitoba and 92% in Saskatchewan
(hint: another name for an animal called caribou) | Reindeer Lake | 60%
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Namesake of the most populous city in Switzerland | Lake Zürich | 58%
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This "shocking" reservoir makes 3.6% of Ghana's area | Lake Volta | 54%
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This "colorful" lake in New Zealand's South Island has the clearest natural fresh water in the world | Blue Lake | 50%
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Largest in Australia; contains the lowest natural point in the country
(hint: namesake of a famous fictional Jane) | Lake Eyre | 50%
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This lake in Lombardy is the largest in Italy | Lake Garda | 46%
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Brackish lake bordering New Orleans | Lake Pontchartrain | 46%
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Largest lake in Manitoba by surface area | Lake Winnipeg | 44%
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Dutch lake that is created by the closing of the Zuiderzee | IJsselmeer | 43%
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Small lake located 40 km northeast of Canberra that was named for a "mad" English king | Lake George | 43%
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Largest lake located entirely in Europe | Lake Ladoga | 43%
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Largest lake in Mongolia by surface area
(hint: acronym for "ultraviolet", in plural form) | Lake Uvs | 43%
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Largest in Ireland and the United Kingdom | Lough Neagh | 42%
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Deepest lake in the U.S., found inside a former volcano | Crater Lake | 40%
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Syrian reservoir built on the Euphrates that has the namesake of the country's ruler | Lake Assad | 38%
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The supervolcano at the center of this Indonesian erupted 74,000 years ago, nearly causing humans to become extinct | Lake Toba | 36%
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Largest Canadian lake that is located between two provinces | Lake Athabasca | 33%
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Second-largest in Europe; located in Russia
(hint: change one letter from the last letter in the Greek alphabet) | Lake Onega | 33%
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The 1980 Winter Olympics was hosted along it | Lake Placid | 33%
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Three-letter lake in Turkey that is the largest in the Middle East | Lake Van | 33%
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Salty lake at 226 ft below sea level. Largest in California by surface area | Salton Sea | 33%
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Largest lake in Sweden and the European Union | Vänern | 33%
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Where the first German massacre of Jews in Italy during WWII occurred | Lake Maggiore | 31%
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Largest in England's Lake District | Windermere | 31%
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Salt lake in southern Argentina home to the lowest point in the Americas (hint: namesake of the chemical element with atomic number 6) | Laguna del Carbón | 30%
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Minnesota lake that forms the northernmost point of the continental 48 | Lake of the Woods | 30%
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Lake bordering New York, Vermont and Canada | Lake Champlain | 29%
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Reservoir behind Hoover Dam | Lake Mead | 27%
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Small lake on the waterway between Lake Huron and Lake Erie bordering Detroit | Lake Saint Clair | 27%
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On the Rhine between Germany, Switzerland and Austria | Lake Constance | 25%
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Largest lake located entirely in Switzerland; Old French for "new castle" | Lake Neuchâtel | 25%
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Reservoir created by the Glen Canyon Dam in Utah and Arizona | Lake Powell | 25%
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Largest freshwater lake in Southeast Asia; located in Cambodia | Tonlé Sap | 25%
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Largest lake in China by surface area | Qinghai Lake | 23%
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"Great" lake on the Suez Canal that serves as a "passing lane" for ships | Great Bitter Lake | 22%
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Second largest in Sweden; Jönköping lies on it | Vättern | 22%
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Longest of New York's Finger Lakes; Ithaca is located at its bottom | Cayuga Lake | 21%
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Large reservoir on the Dnieper River north of Ukraine's capital | Kyiv Cistern | 20%
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Small lake in northwestern Slovenia with an island on which a church is located | Lake Bled | 20%
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The French call it "lac Léman" | Lake Geneva | 20%
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Fifth-largest lake in Europe, found between Estonia and Russia border | Lake Peipus | 20%
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The largest lake in Ethiopia; also the source of the Blue Nile | Lake Tana | 20%
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Great African lake that is the world's largest permanent desert lake | Lake Turkana | 20%
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Largest of the Finger Lakes of New York | Seneca Lake | 20%
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This lake has the namesake and is located a few miles west of Costa Rica's most active volcano | Lake Arenal | 17%
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Great African lake that was named in honor of Queen Victoria's eldest child | Lake Edward | 17%
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Lake on which a Central American capital is located; also called Lake Xolotlán | Lake Managua | 17%
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Lake between Albania and North Macedonia that is the deepest and oldest in Southern Europe, and also a UNESCO site | Lake Ohrid | 17%
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Wisconsin lake bordering Oshkosh and Fond du Lac | Lake Winnebago | 15%
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William Wordsworth once lived in a village with namesake of this lake in England's Lake District | Grasmere | 14%
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Largest in Hungary | Lake Balaton | 14%
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Largest lake in Asia outside Russia | Lake Balkhash | 13%
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Lake that separates Seattle from its eastern suburbs | Lake Washington | 13%
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Largest lake in Antarctica by surface area | Lake Vostok | 11%
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Largest lake in Kyrgyzstan | Issyk-Kul | 10%
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Where the longest river in the Pacific Northwest takes its source | Columbia Lake | 9%
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Largest lake in New Zealand | Lake Taupo | 9%
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Scattered lake that is the largest in Finland | Saimaa | 9%
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Large reservoir behind Parker Dam, in California and Arizona | Lake Havasu | 8%
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Florida's largest lake | Lake Okeechobee | 8%
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Largest lake in Armenia | Lake Sevan | 8%
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Large freshwater artificial lake created by the Panama Canal | Gatun Lake | 0%
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Lake between California and Oregon with namesake of a type of bird | Goose Lake | 0%
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Lake in Djibouti that is home to the lowest point in Africa | Lake Assal | 0%
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This lake is the largest in Japan and has the namesake of a type of Japanese short-necked wooden lute | Lake Biwa | 0%
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Has the largest island that is located in a lake | Lake Huron | 0%
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This reservoir along the Zambezi River, between Zambia and Zimbabwe, is the largest in the world | Lake Kariba | 0%
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Great African lake bordered by Rwanda and D.R. Congo | Lake Kivu | 0%
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Dragon-shaped laked formed by the damming of the Osage river in Missouri | Lake of the Ozarks | 0%
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This Iranian lake was once the largest in the Middle East | Lake Urmia | 0%
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Namesake of a three-letter river on which Scotland's Perth and Dundee lie | Loch Tay | 0%
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Located west of Stockholm | Mälaren | 0%
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Largest naturally occurring saline lake in Argentina (hint: namesake of an ABBA song with a Spanish title) | Mar Chiquita Lake | 0%
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Iconic glacially fed lake in Canada's Banff, located in Valley of the Ten Peaks | Moraine Lake | 0%
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World's largest lake on an island, located in Baffin Island | Nettilling Lake | 0%
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