Statistics for Huge List of U.S. Bodies of Water

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
River in New York that is named after a British explorer who worked for the Dutch	Hudson River	94%
Washington D.C. overlook this river	Potomac River	89%
George Washington crossed this river to launch a surprise attack on Trenton in 1776	Delaware River	80%
Ocean in which Guam, Northern Mariana Islands and Hawaii are located	Pacific Ocean	80%
Destination of the Mormon pioneers	Great Salt Lake	78%
In the stories of Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer floated down this river	Mississippi River	77%
Bay in which the Alcatraz prison island is situated	San Francisco Bay	77%
Lowest of the Great Lakes	Lake Ontario	76%
Makes the border between Texas and Mexico	Rio Grande	76%
A Canadian territory is named after this river that flows mostly through Alaska	Yukon River	73%
Strait that is the northernmost part of the above	Bering Strait	71%
The above connects that ocean to this other ocean	Arctic Ocean	69%
Wether you're in Bismarck, ND or in Jefferson City, MO, you'd still be by this river	Missouri River	69%
Where Deepwater Horizon spilled oil in 2010	Gulf of Mexico	68%
Makes the entire northern border of Kentucky	Ohio River	68%
Sound on which Seattle and Tacoma lie	Puget Sound	68%
"Serpentine" river that traverses the entire length of the state of Idaho	Snake River	68%
Lewis and Clark reached the end point of their journey where this river meets the Pacific Ocean	Columbia River	67%
Waterway that empties the water of the Great Lakes into the Atlantic Ocean	St. Lawrence River	65%
You can sail from Duluth to Sault Ste. Marie in this body of water	Lake Superior	64%
Largest lake by area in the world that is entirely located in a single country	Lake Michigan	57%
Pueblo, Wichita, Tulsa and Little Rock all lie on this river	Arkansas River	55%
Separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula	Chesapeake Bay	55%
The longest bridge (causeway) in the U.S. crosses this lake north of New Orleans	Lake Pontchartrain	52%
Pond in New England where Thoreau sojourned	Walden Pond	51%
Two rivers with this name make the North Dakota–Minnesota and the Texas–Oklahoma border	Red River	50%
Saginaw Bay, Georgian Bay and Thunder Bay are all parts of it	Lake Huron	48%
Most of the coastline of Connecticut borders this sound	Long Island Sound	47%
Vermont's most populous city lies on this lake	Lake Champlain	45%
Where you'd find the Kodiak Island and the Alexander Archipelago	Gulf of Alaska	43%
The valley of this river was the destination of Oregon Trail pioneers	Willamette River	36%
Oceanic inlet Anchorage overlooks - named for a British circumnavigator	Cook Inlet	34%
Small lake that Detroit borders to its east	Lake St. Clair	34%
Largest lake in Florida	Lake Okeechobee	32%
Boston Harbor is a part of it	Massachusetts Bay	24%
The gorge of this river in West Virginia was designated a National Park in 2021	New River	24%
Longest river that is entirely located within Texas	Brazos River	23%
Group of fjords that form a national park in southern Alaska	Kenai Fjords	23%
Strait that contains a current that is the beginning of the Gulf Stream	Straits of Florida	23%
This river was once popularly known as the "Cherokee River"	Tennessee River	21%
The Washo tribe call it "Dáʔaw", meaning the lake	Lake Tahoe	20%
A city of swords at its western end and a city of bovines at its eastern	Lake Erie	19%
Strait between Washington and Vancouver Island	Strait of Juan de Fuca	19%
Lagoon that separates Miami from Miami Beach	Biscayne Bay	18%
Lake between California and Oregon with namesake of a type of waterfowl (bird)	Goose Lake	15%
Chris McCandless crossed it	Colorado River	12%
Alaskan sound where Exxon Valdez spilled oil in 1989	Prince William Sound	10%