Statistics for Rivers in History

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Annual floods of this river ceased with the completion of the Aswan Dam in the 1960s	Nile	93%
River which Tom Sawyer floated down in the stories of Mark Twain	Mississippi	92%
Known as both the cradle of Chinese civilization and as "China's Sorrow" due to its many floods	Yellow	92%
Rivers which flowed through the ancient region of Mesopotamia	Tigris	91%
Rivers which flowed through the ancient region of Mesopotamia	Euphrates	90%
Notre Dame cathedral is built on an island in this river	Seine	84%
Rivers which traditionally formed the European border of the Roman Empire	Danube	82%
Rivers which traditionally formed the European border of the Roman Empire	Rhine	82%
River near which the battle of Stalingrad was fought	Volga	78%
River in which Jesus was baptized	Jordan	77%
The dolphins of this Asian river were seen for the last time in 2002	Yangtze	75%
Henry Morton Stanley was the first European to explore the basin of this major river	Congo	70%
Site of the earliest civilization on the Indian subcontinent	Indus	66%
Caesar defied the Senate by crossing this river at the Italian border	Rubicon	64%
British POWs built a bridge near it under Japanese captivity	Khwae Noi	57%
George Washington crossed this river to launch a surprise attack on Trenton in 1776	Delaware	50%
River in D.R. Congo after which a scary haemorrhagic fever is named	Ebola	49%
About 1 million men were wounded or killed during the battle of this French river in 1916	Somme	48%
Lewis and Clark reached the end point of their journey where this river meets the Pacific Ocean	Columbia	33%
Where Rasputin's body was thrown	Neva	22%