Statistics for Canal Knowledge

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Question	Answer	% Correct
Which Italian city is also known as the City of Canals?	Venice	99%
Which European capital features canals built in concentric semicircles?	Amsterdam	91%
What is used for lowering and raising boats between different levels of a canal?	A lock	88%
Which is the longest canal in the world?	Grand Canal, China	83%
Which canal helped New York City beat Philadelphia as the USA's busiest port?	Erie Canal	78%
Which of these is a French canal and UNESCO World Heritage Site?	Canal du Midi	70%
What was the name of the container ship that blocked the Suez canal in 2021?	Ever Given	70%
Which British city contains the longest network of canals?	Birmingham	66%
Which vessels are built for Britain's limited width canal systems?	Narrowboats	66%
And what were they originally powered by?	Horse	61%
Which major canal is being planned in Turkey to bypass the Bosporus?	The Istanbul Canal	61%
How many fixed road bridges cross the Suez canal?	One	59%
By how much did the Panama canal shorten a New York to Seattle voyage?	7,800 miles (12,550 km) shorter	55%
Pacific to Atlantic travel on the Panama canal is in which general direction?	Northwest	30%
Which canal first enabled boat travel from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean?	Canal of the Pharaohs, Ancient Egypt	16%