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Quiz
- What is the name of the main water thoroughfare through Venice, famous for its Renaissance palaces and gondolas?
- The Panama Canal opened in which decade?
- The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct carries which Welsh canal?
- Which canal connecting London and Birmingham is the longest canal in the UK?
- Which canal running from Fort William to Inverness is Scotland's longest inland waterway?
- Which system of locks, canals, and channels in North America allows oceangoing vessels to travel from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean?
- Which city, now the fifth-largest in Egypt, was established in 1859 during the building of the Suez Canal?
- In which town in central Scotland do canal boats use the only rotating boat lift of its kind in the world?
- A 127 mile long canal crossing the Pennines links Liverpool to which city?
- In which country is the Danube–Black Sea Canal?
- Queen Victoria officially opened which canal on 21st May 1894? At its peak in 1958, the canal carried almost 20 million tons of freight.
- Which British city is home to 35 miles of canals compared to Venice's 26 miles?
- The Singel canal used to encircle which European city in the Middle Ages until the city expanded beyond it?
- Zonians are people associated with the zone around which canal?
- The Sankey Canal was opened in 1757 to transport coal from which town to Liverpool?
- Which artist in 1887, wrote to his wife: "I have to dig from 5:30 in the morning to 6 in the evening"?
Answers
- The Grand Canal
- 1910s (1914)
- Llangollen Canal
- Grand Union Canal
- The Caledonian Canal
- The St. Lawrence Seaway
- Port Said
- Falkirk (The Falkirk Wheel)
- Leeds (via The Leeds and Liverpool Canal)
- Romania
- Manchester Ship Canal
- Birmingham
- Amsterdam
- The Panama Canal
- St Helens
- Famous artist Paul Gauguin (who helped build the Panama Canal)