# Rivers and cities (a quiz) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 2, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330 "2002-04-02T03:28:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/1 "2002-04-02T03:28:57Z")
Rivers, the ancient highways of communication and source of life-sustaining water, were ideal places to found cities. Identify the major city on each of these rivers. Looking at reference work is cheating. Easiest first, then harder. (Yes, I’m procrastinating from homework.) Thames Seine Hudson Potomac Moskva Mississippi Nile Danube St. Lawrence Tiber Plata Vistula Mississippi (another answer) Danube (another answer) Main Spree Fraser Rhone Mersey Mississippi (a third answer) Tagus St. Lawrence (another answer) Nile (another answer) Manzanares Danube (a third answer) Guadalquivir Mississippi (a fourth answer) Tyne Nervion Seine (another answer) Red ---
**Author:** ![randomlyblanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@randomlyblanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomlyblanks)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/2 "2002-04-02T03:37:29Z")
Thames-London Seine-Paris Hudson-New York City Potomac-Washington DC Moskva-Moskow Mississippi- New Orleans Nile-Cairo Danube-Vienna St. Lawrence-Montreal Tiber-Rome Danube-Budapest? Nile-Khartoum Danube-Prague? ---
**Author:** ![randomlyblanks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71c47a/32.png) [@randomlyblanks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/randomlyblanks)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/3 "2002-04-02T03:39:57Z")
Rhone-Nice? Marseille? ---
**Author:** ![Bearflag70](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Bearflag70](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bearflag70)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/4 "2002-04-02T03:40:51Z")
Thames - LONDON Seine Hudson - NEW YORK Potomac - WASHINGTON DC Moskva Mississippi - ST. LOUIS Nile - CAIRO Danube - BERLIN??? St. Lawrence - MONTREAL Tiber Plata Vistula Mississippi (another answer) - NEW ORLEANS Danube (another answer) - BONN??? Main Spree Fraser Rhone Mersey Mississippi (a third answer) - MEMPHIS Tagus St. Lawrence (another answer) - TORONTO??? Nile (another answer) Manzanares Danube (a third answer) Guadalquivir Mississippi (a fourth answer) - MINNEAPOLIS/ST.PAUL Tyne Nervion Seine (another answer) Red - WICHITA FALLS??? OKLAHOMA CITY??? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/5 "2002-04-02T03:46:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by poogas21 \* > \*\*Danube-Prague? \*\* Nope. > [@](#): > > Rhone-Nice? Marseille? Nope and nope. > [@](#): > > Danube - BERLIN??? Nope. > [@](#): > > Danube (another answer) - BONN??? Nope. > [@](#): > > St. Lawrence (another answer) - TORONTO??? Nope. > [@](#): > > Red - WICHITA FALLS??? OKLAHOMA CITY?? Don’t believe so. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/6 "2002-04-02T03:59:20Z")
[QUOTE] Thames Seine - PARIS, ROUEN Hudson Potomac Moskva Mississippi - MINNEAPOLIS, ST. PAUL Nile Danube - VIENNA St. Lawrence Tiber Plata - MONTEVIDEO Vistula Mississippi (another answer) Danube (another answer) Main - FRANKFURT Spree Fraser Rhone - LYON(?) Mersey Mississippi (a third answer) Tagus - LISBON(?) St. Lawrence (another answer) Nile (another answer) - ASWAN Manzanares Danube (a third answer) Guadalquivir Mississippi (a fourth answer) Tyne Nervion Seine (another answer) Red - FARGO, MOORHEAD ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/7 "2002-04-02T04:17:13Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by David Simmons \* \*\* > [@](#): > > Plata - MONTEVIDEO > Nile (another answer) - ASWAN > Red - FARGO, MOORHEAD \*\* All correct, but think bigger… ---
**Author:** ![robinc308](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@robinc308](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robinc308)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/8 "2002-04-02T04:26:48Z")
Danube - Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade. And Bogen, in Bavaria, Germany (IIRC - it’s been a while), but I don’t think it’s big enough to count. Although it is Stadt Bogen, so technically, it is a city… Main - Frankfurt ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/9 "2002-04-02T04:42:37Z")
I haven’t peeked at anybody else’s answers yet: Thames - London, of course Seine - Paris Hudson - New York, Albany Potomac - Washington Moskva - Moscow Mississippi - N’Yawleans Nile - Cairo Danube - Budapest St. Lawrence - Montréal Tiber - Genoa? Plata - ??? Vistula - ??? Mississippi (another answer) - St. Louis Danube (another answer) - Vienna? Main - Cologne? Spree - ??? Fraser - ??? Rhône - Lyon, Geneva Mersey - ??? Mississippi (a third answer) - Minneapolis Tagus - ??? St. Lawrence (another answer) - Québec City Nile (another answer) - Khartoum Manzanares - ??? Danube (a third answer) - Belgrade Guadalquivir - ??? Mississippi (a fourth answer) - Baton Rouge Tyne - ??? Nervion - ??? Seine (another answer) - Cherbourg? Red - ??? ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/10 "2002-04-02T04:51:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\*Red - FARGO, MOORHEAD > All correct, but think bigger… \*\* Winnipeg? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/11 "2002-04-02T04:57:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Palve \* > Tiber - Genoa? Nope. > [@](#): > > Seine (another answer) - Cherbourg?\*\* Nope. Ones that still haven’t been answered (or \*been given as large a city as possible as an answer): Plata\* Vistula Spree Fraser Mersey Manzanares Guadalquivir Tyne Nervion Red To which I will add, out of sheer bloodymindedness: Po Bosna IJ Scheldt Yangtze Kiang ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/12 "2002-04-02T05:03:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by chique \* > \*\*Winnipeg? \*\* Yup. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/13 "2002-04-02T05:03:39Z")
Po - Milan? Bosna - ??? IJ - ??? Scheldt - ??? Yangtze Kiang - Wuhan ---
**Author:** ![Palve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a698b9/32.png) [@Palve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palve)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/14 "2002-04-02T05:04:51Z")
Ah, of course! Bosna - Sarajevo? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/15 "2002-04-02T05:16:42Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Palve \* > Po - Milan? Nope. > [@](#): > > Yangtze Kiang - Wuhan \*\* You are thinking too hard. Gear down a notch. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![LindyHopper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ebca7d/32.png) [@LindyHopper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LindyHopper)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/16 "2002-04-02T05:17:57Z")
Plata: Rio de Janeiro? Vistula: Helsinki? Mersey: Liverpool Tyne: Newcastle? Yangtze: Beijing? ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/17 "2002-04-02T05:26:01Z")
Plata: Buenos Airies Fraser: Vancouver I know nothing else. Perhaps not even that. ---
**Author:** ![CBEscapee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@CBEscapee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBEscapee)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/18 "2002-04-02T05:28:31Z")
Frase: Vancover Guadalquiver: Madrid ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/19 "2002-04-02T05:29:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by LindyHopper \* > \*\*Plata: Rio de Janeiro? > Vistula: Helsinki? > Yangtze: Beijing? \*\* Nope. > [@](#): > > Bosna - Sarajevo? > Mersey: Liverpool > Tyne: Newcastle? Yep. 🙂 A few more: Dniepr Tigris Congo (two answers) ---
**Author:** ![StephenG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7feea3/32.png) [@StephenG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StephenG)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/20 "2002-04-02T05:39:43Z")
A few to add: St. Lawrence - Montréal, Kingston! Tiber - Rome Vistula - Warsaw Mississippi (another answer) - Memphis Seine (another answer) - Dijon? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330.md?page=2)