# 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:** 2
**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, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/21 "2002-04-02T05:45:34Z")
A few to add: St. Lawrence - Montréal, Kingston! Tiber - Rome Vistula - Warsaw Mississippi (another answer) - Memphis Seine (another answer) - Dijon? ---
**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, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/22 "2002-04-02T05:49:43Z")
Plata: Buenos Airies Fraser: Vancouver I know nothing else. Perhaps not even that. ---
**Author:** ![tsarina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@tsarina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsarina)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/23 "2002-04-02T14:11:25Z")
Spree - Berlin Po - Venice IJ - Amsterdam Yangtze Kiang - Shanghai? Dniepr - Kiev? Tigris - Baghdad? Congo - Kinshasa? ---
**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, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/24 "2002-04-02T14:15:56Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by various hands_ > \*\*Guadalquiver: Madrid > Seine (another answer) - Dijon? > Po - Venice \*\* Nope. If I don’t respond to you specifically, it means you’re right 🙂 Ones remaining: Manzanares Guadalquivir Nervion Po Scheldt To which I’ll add: Bow Charles ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/25 "2002-04-02T14:19:17Z")
Red: Hanoi ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/26 "2002-04-02T14:45:05Z")
Po - Florence, Italy Charles - Boston, MA Thames - what, nobody has mentioned the bustling metropolis of New London, CT? Why, those Brits can’t even pronounce it right! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![missbunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@missbunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missbunny)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/27 "2002-04-02T14:48:33Z")
Although I must add: New London is not the major city on the Thames - Groton is. (Not that either one is really “major” in the grand scheme of things.) But Groton has been mysteriously maligned for years. Even the DoD identifies its base as Naval Submarine Base New London - and it’s NOT in New London at all. Now, back to your regular programming. ---
**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, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/28 "2002-04-02T15:06:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by matt\_mcl \* > \*\* > > Nope. > > If I don’t respond to you specifically, it means you’re right 🙂 > > Ones remaining: > > Manzanares - MADRID > Guadalquivir - SEVILLE > Nervion - BILBAO > Po - TURIN > Scheldt - ANTWERP > > To which I’ll add: > > Bow > Charles - BOSTON, MA \*\* ---
**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, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/29 "2002-04-02T20:20:56Z")
> [@](#): > > Po - Florence, Italy Nope… > [@](#): > > Manzanares - MADRID > Guadalquivir - SEVILLE > Nervion - BILBAO > Po - TURIN > Scheldt - ANTWERP Thank you! We’re still missing the Bow and a city on the Congo. ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2002, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/30 "2002-04-02T20:47:25Z")
Congo- Brazzaville Bow- (WAG) Sydney?? ---
**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 3, 2002, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/31 "2002-04-03T04:58:28Z")
> [@](#): > > Congo- Brazzaville Yup! > [@](#): > > Bow- (WAG) Sydney?? Nope. C’mon, I know there are dopers who even LIVE in this city… ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/32 "2002-04-03T05:22:55Z")
Bow - Calgary Us Canadian Dopers have to stick together, **matt\_mcl**. ---
**Author:** ![BalmainBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6a8cbe/32.png) [@BalmainBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BalmainBoy)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/33 "2002-04-03T07:29:18Z")
Sydney’s river is the **Parramatta** ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2002, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/34 "2002-04-03T08:45:54Z")
Why did everyone at first say New Orleans for the Mississippi? And thanks for the later nod to my hometown, Memphis, but neither one of those is the largest city on the Muddy, which is St. Louis. Unless the Twin Cities (Mineapolis/St. Paul, where the curious among us, like myself, can go to see Lock & Dam #1) count as one, in which case… St. Louis is probably still bigger than both of them, actually. That’s my two cents. Oh yeah, and how about the Chattahoochee? St. Johns? Willamette? Raccoon? (These are all American rivers.) Beuhler? ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/35 "2002-04-05T07:29:28Z")
Willamette - Portland, OR ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 7:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/36 "2002-04-05T07:51:48Z")
Chattahoochee - Atlanta? ---
**Author:** ![Great\_Dave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/46a35a/32.png) [@Great\_Dave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Dave)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2002, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/37 "2002-04-05T08:18:16Z")
Chattahoochee sounds more like Orlando or Tallahasee. How about 4 on the Rio Grande? Or one on the Grand River? or the San Joaquin? ---
**Author:** ![meyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ccd318/32.png) [@meyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meyer)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/38 "2002-04-06T03:02:34Z")
Rio Grande - El Paso Albuquerque Alright, I cheated a little by asking a friend who knew the area a little, so sue me. ---
**Author:** ![ijustdontcare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c57346/32.png) [@ijustdontcare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ijustdontcare)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/39 "2002-04-06T03:08:03Z")
You forgot the easiest answer of all. What city is located on the Detroit River? ---
**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330/40 "2002-04-06T05:07:17Z")
> [@](#): > > What city is located on the Detroit River? Off the top of my head: Windsor, Ontario Amherst, Ontario Grosse Pte., MI Grosse Pte. Park, MI Delray, MI Dearborn, MI Allen Park, MI ? Lincoln Park, MI Wyandotte, MI Grosse Isle, MI Flat Rock, MI ? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rivers-and-cities-a-quiz/101330.md?page=3)