The Blue Danube

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1. In which German state is the source of the river Danube? Bavaria Thuringia Saxony Baden Württemberg

2. What is the German name for the River Danube? Danubius Donau Danubach Main

3. Name the major river which joins the Danube at the city of Passau? Answer: (One word, this river gives its name to the capital of the Austrian Tirol)

4. Apart from Vienna through which major Austrian city does the Danube flow? Radstadt Salzburg Linz Graz

5. What is the name of the large lake on the Austrian Hungarian border which lies about 30km south east of Vienna ? Lipno Bodensee Neusiedler See Lake Constance

6. The Danube flows through the Slovakian capital Bratislava, what is the German name for Bratislava? Pressburg Mailand Bratsburg Oststein

7. Recently Slovakia has completed a major hydroelectric project on the Danube, what is the name of the project? Komarno Bratislava Gabickovo Slovakomagyar

8. The Hungarian capital Budapest was formed by the joining of two cities on opposite banks of the Danube , what were the names of these two cities? Answer: (Two Words)

9. The Danube receives water from lake Balaton via which tributary? Drava Sio Tisza Raab

10. The Danube flows through the Vojvodina agricultural region of Yugoslavia, which of these is a city of this region? Nis Novi Sad Pirot Split

11. At Belgrade the Danube is joined by the River Sava, in which country is the source of the Sava located? Austria Macedonia Bosnia Slovenia

12. What is the name of the narrow gorge through which the Danube flows to enter Romania? Iron Gates Gorge of Nis Velke Reka Srbska Udol

13. Only one bridge crosses the Danube between Romania and Bulgaria. At which Bulgarian town is this bridge found? Sofia Calafat Varna Ruse

14. Seagoing ships may navigate the Danube as far upstream as which Romanian town? Brasov Galati Bucharest Constanta

15. What is the name of the only Ukranian port on the river Danube? Ismail Sevastopol Odessa Lvov