Thread: How Good is Your Geographic? [4]

Originally Posted by Breeze

Canada, Japan, Brazil, Australia. Hopefully I've got it wrong as I have no question in the hopper.

Correct.

1) Mount Logan, Canada -5,959 m
2) Mount Fuji, Japan - 3,776 m
3) Pico da Neblina, Brazil - 2,994 m
4) Mount Kosciuszko, Autralia - 2,234 m

Dammit! Ok, pulling one out of the hat, from the documentary I just watched. The Nile river has two sources. Where are they and which delivers the greater voulme?

Originally Posted by Breeze

Dammit! Ok, pulling one out of the hat, from the documentary I just watched. The Nile river has two sources. Where are they and which delivers the greater voulme?

I've always thought that Lake Victoria was the source of the Nile. Didn't realise there were two. Haven't a clue as to the second

(Good Q's recently btw, keep 'em coming )

Jeez this takes me back to elementary school
I have 3/4's of the answer. The rivers are The White Nile and The Blue Nile.
The White Nile delivers the most volume IIRC.

Thank you for taking the time to respond to our survey. The question again is where are the sources and which delivers the greater volume? Perhaps I should clarify. Where is the source of the White and Blue respectively and of course the volume thing? I think I should hold out for a complete answer. As for the source location, lake name or country will do.

The source of the White Nile is Lake Victoria. I don't know the source of the Blue Nile but I'm guessing it is in Ethiopia?!

Mr. Alcatraz I'll assume your final answer is Lake Victoria, Ethiopia and the White Nile. Two out of three ain't bad, just ask Meat Loaf, but not good enough I'm afraid.

The White Nile's is the most voluminous its source is Lake Victoria.
I don't know the source of the Blue Nile but I'm guessing it is in Ethiopia if the name of the countr is a legit source

Blue Nile - Lake Tana, Ethiopia
White Nile - Lake Victoria (but some rivers flow into Lake Victoria
Greater Volume - over a year the White Nile, at peak flow the Blue Nile

Originally Posted by D-Type

Blue Nile - Lake Tana, Ethiopia
White Nile - Lake Victoria (but some rivers flow into Lake Victoria
Greater Volume - over a year the White Nile, at peak flow the Blue Nile

Swot

Ner - it's a question of where you grew up - and I grew up in Kenya, so these things are engraved in the memory..

I don't know whether I've got the flow thing right anyway (Wikipedia is a bit vague!). I know it's the Blue Nile that causes the annual floods (or it did until they built the Aswan Dam) but I don't know which has the higher flow over a year.

So, what it comes down to is that when Burton and Speke went looking for the source of the Nile 150 years ago they got it wrong. They should have turned left at Khartoum and followed the Blue Nile or having found (and named) Lake Victoria they should have looked for rivers flowing into it.

Wikipedia is very clear on the volume. Still, best answer is still only 2/3 correct

I guess it must then be:

Originally Posted by D-Type

Blue Nile - Lake Tana, Ethiopia
White Nile - Lake Victoria (but some rivers flow into Lake Victoria

...and the Blue Nile has the greater volume.

Thank you studioe. You are correct. The sticking point was volume obviously. According to Wikipedia the Blue provides at least 56% even at low flow times.

Cool. I do have a question, but I'd like to give this turn to D-Type, if he'll take it.

Thanks! Here goes:

Which is furthest North: Indianapolis, Monza, or Suzuka?

Suzuka

Originally Posted by Lousada

Suzuka

No

Indy