I Can't Sea Trivia Quiz

Answer:

A sea, by definition, is a division of an ocean. As such, some bodies of water carrying the name sea are not actually "proper" seas. The Dead Sea and Aral Sea are both large lakes. The Caspian Sea is also one such body, but is considered a full-fledged sea in some circles.

The famous Mediterranean Sea itself has several, also well-known, seas branching off from parts of its waters. They include the Aegean and Adriatic Seas, as well as more marginal seas like the Levantine Sea and Ionian Sea.

The Americas have a Mediterranean Sea, too! The American Mediterranean Sea (a scientific, rather geographic, moniker) is the name given to the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea taken together as one encompassing body of water.

The only sea in the world without any land borders is the Sargasso Sea. Named after a type of seaweed, its boundaries are dictated by ocean currents. Its location is off the eastern coast of the United States, northwest from the Bahamas and just west of Bermuda.

There are four color seas in the world: the Black Sea, White Sea, Red Sea, and Yellow Sea. The Red Sea is between Africa and the Arabian peninsula, the White Sea is in the northwest of Russia, the Yellow Sea is between China and the Korean peninsula, and the Black Sea is north of Turkey and south of Ukraine, forming part of the Europe/Asia boundary.

As for the non-sea named options, some were called such before. The Bay of Bengal was one of the seven seas to the Arabic world, as well as the Persian Gulf. Many bays, like the Hudson Bay, are considered marginal seas, as they are part of a bigger sea.

Some of the wrong answers were simply made up (American Sea, East Sea), but a few others aren't even on Earth. The Sea of Tranquility is on the Moon, and is where the Apollo 11 mission landed. The Sea of Sighs is from George R.R. Martin's " A Song of Ice and Fire" series of books. Other wrong answers aren't seas at all, but inland bodies of water, like the Sea of Galilee.