American Lakes

Question 1

This Florida lake bears a Hitchiti name that means “big water”

Answer 1

Lake Okeechobee

Question 2

This type of shrimp named for its salty habitat has been called the most numerous inhabitant of the Great Salt Lake

Answer 2

brine shrimp

Question 3

This lake in Upstate New York was named in 1755 to honor the then-current British monarch

Answer 3

Lake George

Question 4

The name of this resort island in Lake Huron used to have “Michili- “ in front of it

Answer 4

Mackinac

Question 5

In the 19th c., this 22-mile-long lake in the Sierra Nevada lost most of the forest around it, used for timber in the Comstock mines

Answer 5

Lake Tahoe

Question 6

Due to its serpentine curves, this large reservoir in central Missouri has been called “the Magic Dragon”

Answer 6

The Lake of the Ozarks

Question 7

It’s the smallest of the Great Lakes by surface area & the one farthest east

Answer 7

Ontario

Question 8

U.S. Coast Guard units based in Cleveland, Ohio are known as the “Guardians of” these bodies of water

Answer 8

The Great Lakes

Question 9

Drought has depleted this lake, the USA’s largest man-made reservoir & a major source of Las Vegas’ water

Answer 9

Lake Mead

Question 10

Millard Fillimore was born in this state’s Finger Lakes region in 1800; in 1830 he moved to Buffalo

Answer 10

New York

Question 11

These “form the world’s largest freshwater body (in surface area)”

Answer 11

The Great Lakes

Question 12

Of the 5 Great Lakes, it’s the highest above sea level

Answer 12

Lake Superior

Question 13

This bloodsucking eel-like fish arrived in Lake Erie around 1920; within 25 years all the Great Lakes were infested

Answer 13

Lamprey

Question 14

Tonka Toys got their name from this lake, one of the largest in the Land of 10,000 Lakes

Answer 14

Minnetoba

Question 15

Legend says his footprints & those of his blue ox, Babe, created Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes

Answer 15

Paul Bunyan

Question 16

One of the world’s biggest artificially created lakes, the Lake of the Ozarks in this state has a shoreline of more than 1,000 miles

Answer 16

Missouri

Question 17

French name of the canals between Lakes Superior & Huron that handle about 10,000 vessel passages a year

Answer 17

Soo Locks

Question 18

22 miles long & 6,225 feet up, this lake on the California-Nevada border is the USA’s biggest Alpine lake

Answer 18

Lake Tahoe

Question 19

Lake McConaughy, this state’s largest lake, is a reservoir created by the Kingsley Dam on the North Platte River

Answer 19

Nebraska

Question 20

38 miles long & 3 miles wide at its broadest point, Seneca is the largest of this “body part” group of lakes

Answer 20

Finger Lakes

Question 21

A narrow passage called the Rigolets connects this Louisiana Lake to Lake Borgne & the Gulf of Mexico

Answer 21

Lake Pontchartrain

Question 22

In 1699 Sieur d’Iberville saw Okwata, a vast lake near the Gulf of Mexico, & renamed it this

Answer 22

Lake Pontchartrain

Question 23

The Chicago River flows out of this Great Lake

Answer 23

Lake Michigan

Question 24

In surface area this one of the 5 Great Lakes is the largest body of fresh water in the world

Answer 24

Lake Superior

Question 25

This lake in Oregon is the second-deepest lake in North America

Answer 25

Crater Lake

Question 26

Large rivers that enter this lake include the St. Joseph, Muskegon & Kalamazoo

Answer 26

Lake Michigan

Question 27

The Soo Canals at the twin cities of Sault Ste Marie in Michigan & Ontario allow ships to pass between these two Great Lakes

Answer 27

Superior and Huron

Question 28

Between 1913 & 1932 Canada dug a new & deeper version of the Welland Canal that connects these 2 Great Lakes

Answer 28

Erie and Ontario

Question 29

The shallowest of the Great Lakes, it was the site of a U.S. naval victory in 1813

Answer 29

Erie

Question 30

At about 1,700 square miles, this saline lake is one of the largest lakes in the world with no outlet

Answer 30

Salt Lake

Question 31

The smallest of the Great Lakes in area

Answer 31

Ontario

Question 32

2 answers please: the smallest & the largest of the Great Lakes

Answer 32

Ontario and Superior

Question 33

Yellowstone Lake

Answer 33

Wyoming

Question 34

Grand Lake O' the Cherokees

Answer 34

Oklahoma

Question 35

Lake Shasta

Answer 35

California

Question 36

Sam Rayburn Lake

Answer 36

Texas

Question 37

Lake Peekskill

Answer 37

New York

Question 38

The northern tip of this long lake on the border between Vermont & New York extends into Quebec

Answer 38

Lake Champlain

Question 39

The Straits of Mackinac separate the Upper & Lower Peninsulas & connect these two Great Lakes

Answer 39

Huron and Michigan

Question 40

The last house where Kurt Cobain lived was by this lake with a presidential name

Answer 40

Lake Washington (Seattle)

Question 41

Grande Isle & Isle La Motte are in this, the fourth-largest freshwater lake entirely in the U.S.

Answer 41

Lake Champlain

Question 42

Halalii Lake

Answer 42

Hawaii

Question 43

Lake Tahoe

Answer 43

Nevada and California

Question 44

Coeur d'Alene Lake (pronounced Core-duh-lane)

Answer 44

Idaho

Question 45

Lake Kissimmee

Answer 45

Florida

Question 46

Chickamauga Lake

Answer 46

Tennessee

Question 47

Despite Minnesota's claim as the Land of 10,000 Lakes, this U.S. state has the most, with more than 3 million

Answer 47

Alaska

Question 48

Oregon is in deep with this body of water on its state quarter

Answer 48

Crater Lake

Question 49

John C. Fremont named this Nevada lake seen here for its tufa or rock formation

Answer 49

Pyramid Lake

Question 50

This large Louisiana lake is named for Louis XIV's marine minister

Answer 50

Lake Pontchartrain

Question 51

This lake whose French name means "heart of an awl" is at the heart of a beautiful resort area in Idaho

Answer 51

Lake Coeur d'Alene

Question 52

Pend Oreille is the largest of the thousands of lakes in this "Gem State"

Answer 52

Idaho

Question 53

A memorial on an island in this Great Lake honors Oliver Hazard Perry's victory there during the War of 1812

Answer 53

Erie

Question 54

About 116 square miles in area, Moosehead is the largest lake in this "Pine Tree State"

Answer 54

Maine

Question 55

This lake in the Western U.S. has a specific gravity that is 10-22% higher than that of fresh water

Answer 55

Great Salt Lake

Question 56

This largest Florida lake covers about 700 square miles, but its greatest depth is only about 15 feet

Answer 56

Lake Okeechobee

Question 57

J. Strom Thurmond Lake, which has more than 100 small islands, lies on this state's border with Georgia

Answer 57

South Carolina

Question 58

The 2nd-largest freshwater lake totally within the U.S., this state's Lake Iliamna is the spawning ground for red salmon

Answer 58

Alaska

Question 59

Hawaii's Lake Waiau lies at 13,020 feet, atop this dormant volcano on the Big Island

Answer 59

Mauna Kea

Question 60

Lake Mead straddles the border between these 2 states

Answer 60

Arizona and Nevada

Question 61

Lobster Lake

Answer 61

Maine

Question 62

The Straits of Mackinac connect these 2 Great Lakes

Answer 62

Lake Michigan and Huron

Question 63

The city of Provo is just east of the lake that shares its name with this state in which Provo is located

Answer 63

Utah

Question 64

Grosse Pointe, a suburb of this metropolis, lies on the shores of Lake St. Clair

Answer 64

Detroit

Question 65

Rather than Lake Sallier, Louisianans took a settler's first name & called their city this

Answer 65

Lake Charles

Question 66

Fed by the Kissimmee River, it's the largest freshwater lake in the southern United States

Answer 66

Lake Okeechobee

Question 67

This lake in Manitoba, Ontario & Minnesota is a remnant of an extinct glacial lake

Answer 67

Lake of the Woods