Lake Victoria in Africa is the source of which river?
- A.The Blue Nile
- B.The White Nile
- C.The Congo
- D.The Zambezi
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the White Nile. The White Nile leaves Lake Victoria at Jinja in Uganda and flows north through Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert to meet the Blue Nile at Khartoum, where the Nile proper begins. Option A is wrong because the Blue Nile rises from Lake Tana in the Ethiopian highlands and supplies most of the flood water that once gave Egypt its annual inundation. Option C is wrong because the Congo rises in the highlands south of Lake Tanganyika, as the Lualaba, and reaches the Atlantic after crossing the equator twice. Option D is wrong because the Zambezi rises in north western Zambia, carries the Victoria Falls and empties into the Indian Ocean in Mozambique. In exams the pairing to hold is Lake Victoria with the White Nile and Lake Tana with the Blue Nile, the two streams that join at Khartoum.
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- B.Lake Baikal
- C.Caspian Sea
- D.Lake Superior
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- C.Caspian Sea
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- B.Venezuela
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- D.Norway
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- A.Niger
- B.Orange
- C.Zambezi
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- D.Lake Ontario and Lake Michigan
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