USA Border Rivers Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ohio

Due to its flow towards the West, the Ohio river was used by early settlers for westward expansion. It also formed the southern border of the Northwest Territory and was the dividing line between slave and free territory.

Answer: Missouri

The Missouri River flows through three state capitals, Bismarck, North Dakota; Pierre, South Dakota; and Jefferson City, Missouri. After joining the Mississippi, that same water will continue on through one more state capital (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) before ending up in the Gulf of Mexico.

Answer: Snake

Along the Oregon/Idaho border, the Snake River flows through Hell's Canyon, the deepest river-carved gorge in North America. Evel Knievel's jump wasn't as successful as he had planned. Before he could land on the other side of the canyon, he was blown backwards and ended up 600ft down and on the same side of the river he jumped from.

Answer: Columbia

Lewis and Clark completed their journey west at Fort Clatsop in Oregon after paddling down the Snake and Columbia Rivers. The Columbia River Gorge is one of the most popular places in the world for windsurfing, but Lewis and Clark probably finished their journey the old fashioned way.

Answer: Wabash

With a 411 mile stretch between Huntington, Indiana and the confluence with the Ohio River, the Wabash River flows freely for longer than any other river east of the Mississippi. The Wabash River flows through Wabash, Indiana; which was the first electrically lighted city in America.

Answer: Delaware

The Battle of Trenton had two future US Presidents involved. George Washington and James Monroe, who was badly injured in the battle. The Delaware River also flows through the first capital of the United States of America, Philadelphia.

Answer: Chattahoochee

The name Chattahoochee means "painted rock". The Chattahoochee is known as the Apalachicola River after it enters Florida. According to the Alan Jackson song, "it gets hotter than a hoochie coochie".

Answer: Mississippi

The Mississippi is the fourth longest river in the world behind the Nile, Amazon, and Yangtze. Although you will find many dams and locks on the Mississippi, Mark Twain showed how well he knew the river when he said,
"The Mississippi River will always have its own way; no engineering skill can persuade it to do otherwise".

Answer: North Dakota and Minnesota

It is sometimes called the Red River North, so it's not confused with the one that separates Oklahoma and Texas. This Red River flows into Lake Manitoba and into the Hudson Bay in Canada, while the other Red River ends up in the Mississippi and then the Gulf of Mexico.

The Universities of Texas and Oklahoma football teams share the "Red River Rivalry", but the University of North Dakota Fighting Sioux and Minnesota Golden Gophers have a pretty good, although less popular, rivalry of their own in hockey.

Answer: Connecticut

The Connecticut River flows through Springfield, Massachusetts, the birthplace of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. After separating New Hampshire and Vermont, Connecticut is divided in half by this river before it ends up in the Long Island Sound.