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  • Question of

    The curved metal bar connecting a narrowboat’s the rudder to its’ tiller, goes by what name?

    • Frog’s Leg
    • Pike’s Fin
    • Swan’s Neck
  • Question of

    Which British city has the longest network of canals?

    • Birmingham
    • Manchester
    • London
  • Question of

    Name the astronomer, with a famous observatory named in his honour, who fuelled the once popular myth that canals made by intelligent beings existed on Mars, with his 1906 publication, Mars and Its’ Canals.

    • Edwin Hubble
    • Percival Lowell
    • King Fredrick II of Denmark
  • Question of

    Singel is a famous canal running through which city?

    • Amsterdam
    • St. Petersburg
    • Venice
  • Question of

    What do you call an unpowered narrowboat towed behind another?

    • Butty
    • Dolly
    • Fiddle
  • Question of

    Which country’s Grand Canal is the longest artificial river in the world?

    • China
    • Russia
    • USA
  • Question of

    And in which millennium did the engineer Qiao Weiyue create the first pound locks?

    • 1st BC/BCE
    • 1st AD/CE
    • 2nd AD/CE
  • Question of

    Select the only one of the following canals to have locks.

    • Corinth
    • Panama
    • Suez
  • Question of

    ‘Klong’ is a local word used to describe canals in which city of waterways?

    • Bangkok
    • Stockholm
    • Bruges.
  • Question of

    Completed in 1591, name the main crossing point of Venice’s Grand Canal?

    • Ponte dei Sospiri (Bridge of Sighs)
    • Rialto Bridge
    • Ponte dei Gondolas e Cornettos

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