It's a pretty good quiz. Very interesting in my opinion. Unfortunately it's quite focussed on US state borders. Hence it's almost impossible for anyone living outside the USA. A little bit more international and this quiz would get from good to great.
I'd be careful what you wish for. There are surprisingly few well known international border rivers (apart from the obvious ones like the Congo or Senegal, which are no fun). The American ones make it much easier.
Yes thank you for pointing out yet again that it's absolutely impossible for anyone to know anything about US geography or culture. We all know that the United States is a black hole from which no knowledge ever escapes. It's quite literally impossible to learn something about it if you don't live there.
yikes the oder river haha bet its smelly ;) yeah as an american its definitely too us oriented. However, i still missed some in the us...i can only hold so much information in my head i guess...
@bogomir, I was going to say something similar with the caveat that I don't know how many borders are defined by rivers so QM may well have been limited in his/her options. Interesting quiz, but a lot tricker for those of us not from North America.
Surely Niagara should be accepted as a correct answer for the New York - Ontario question? I am sure I was in Ontario looking across the Niagara River to a part of New York State just a few weeks ago....
I agree. Being European I honestly had no idea about the river, just knew Niagara Falls was on the border, hence tried Niagara river. Wikipedia tells me this river exists and forms the border between New York and Ontario. I feel robbed.
The St. Lawrence Seaway is not anywhere near Niagra Falls. NY state is bordered by the Province of Ontario to its northwest, where Niagara falls is found, and by Quebec to the northeast. The nearest part of NY to Montreal is actually closer than the nearest part of it to Toronto. The St. Lawrence River is that border, and is different than Niagara. MOST of NY's border with Canada is found in Lake Ontario of the US Great Lakes, not by a river.
Guess what? The majority here is not American. I think we all agree that non-americans have to take state capital quizzes or stuff because frankly, no one outside the US cares about those, but in a quiz titled rivers on borders I think you can expect more than US states
Yes, I'm with you. I didn't know hardly any of the American ones (I guessed Mississippi and St Lawrence must be somewhere!) but we can all read the quiz before trying it. Maybe I'll make one about rivers forming borders between English counties... or maybe I won't.
Using the yellow boxes might be useful here? I got one or two "right" by entering rivers that turned out to be answers to different questions to the ones I was trying to answer.
I know you ask for the longest river but I really feel like "Neisse" should be accepted for the border between Poland and Germany. After all, it makes up for the longest part of the border with 198 km, opposed to the Oder's 162 km.
Had trouble with the New Jersey/Pennsylvania one until I remembered my Revolutionary War history and thought of Washington sneaking his men across the icy river on Christmas night to sock it to the Hessians.
I got oder and zambezi, but nothing from jordan and down. And I guessed yellow, but apparently should ve guessed red and orange (never heard of them, or any of the others I missed actually, besides jordan and mekong)
In my opinion, this quiz should be split in two parts. One for US states, and the other one for regular countries. People outside of US do not know many rivers in US, except maybe Mississippi, Missouri, Colorado, Rio Grande...
Niagara is quite short. Well that happened to me too .
I agree that it is somewhat US heavy, a little more international borders would make it even better. Suggestions: Paraná, Orinoco
-St. Clair River
-Detroit River
-Niagra River