Can you name the world's major bodies of water?

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World Bodies of Water Quiz

by davidr

Created Jul 27, 2009 in Geography
Featured Jul 27, 2009
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	hindu1225:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 04:57 GMT		47 points
	wow this is a great and challenging quiz

	Klingsta:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 04:57 GMT		44 points
	I'm wet this quiz is so good.

	brianc:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 04:58 GMT		17 points
	wow this was a lot harder than i thought it would be. i thought the gulf of tonkin would be on here but i guess it's too small? or is it an alternate name (in which case it should count also). sargasso sea was confusing too.

	AStue:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:02 GMT		31 points
	wow davidr, great quiz! a new thing for the geography nerds like me to memorize thank you

	GeoExpert:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:07 GMT		31 points
	Definitely one of the better Sporcles. But I spent forever typing in Bosporus thinking I had spelled it wrong.

	springmom:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:13 GMT		0 points
	Awesome quiz! I love it and I feel slightly stupid. I got 48 on my first try and I used all the time. I've got some studying to do!

	GeoExpert:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:22 GMT		4 points
	How come it says "special thanks to Sporcle user: davidr" instead of "this game was contributed by..."

	Abhit:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:22 GMT		45 points
	I know it's incredibly immature, but even though I'm older now, I can't help but giggle every time I hear "Lake Titicaca."

	cottb128:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:23 GMT		38 points
	Ah Lake Titicaca, making 7th grade geography class funny for the past few decades

	pete:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:23 GMT		19 points
	I would like to see more bodies of water quizzes - why not break it out by type of body. E.g., straits, gulfs, bays, inland seas. I know some local quizzes already exist (meditteranean, arabian) but these kinds of specialized quizzes would be more likely to reward me for typing Bay of Fundy and Straits of Magellan a million times, like I did in this quiz.

	Jordan117:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:28 GMT		10 points
	Great quiz -- very nice "learning curve". And I've got a suggestion: The Great Australian Bight (the very large bay formed by the southern edge of the continent).

	mungar:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:29 GMT		1 point
	Definitely easier than I thought it would be... but also still lots to learn. It helps living in Canada, gave me a quick 12 off the bat lol

	MovieDynamic:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:32 GMT		10 points
	Oh wow lol. I thought this was just gonna be Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic... haha boy was I wrong!

	pdu:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:52 GMT		1 point
	I'm missing the Adriatic Sea.

	xander:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:54 GMT		10 points
	Another one of those epic geopgraphy quizes! That was great and a fresh idea, it was interesting though to see some of the answers to "largest bodies of water' quiz missing (Maracaibo comes to mind) Also what exactly is the Sargasso sea?

	ForPony:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 05:59 GMT		11 points
	Excellent. EXCELLENT!!!! I've been waiting for a worldwide bodies of water quiz for so long. Thanks for a great game, Sporcle! (If I may make a tiny suggestion, the Ligurian Sea is missing). Still, fantastic quiz!

	raisingfear101:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 06:08 GMT		18 points
	I'm not that great a swimmer.

	squid_pro_quo:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 06:15 GMT		3 points
	awesome quiz!

	TeganX7:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 06:30 GMT		6 points
	Great quiz! I would also (Jordan117) have added the Great Australian Bight ... but exceptional work!

	IHateRegistering:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 06:52 GMT		5 points
	The box on the left should have an indicator of which area it represents.

	upa:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 07:06 GMT		16 points
	what about the dead sea?

	davidr:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 07:48 GMT		8 points
	GeoExpert: I was writing a quiz of the world's oceans and seas (as recognized by the International Hydrographic Organization) but had stalled on it because there are so many between Europe and Africa and around Indonesia. The Sporcle admins got bored of waiting for my quiz — it had been over six months — so they used some of what I'd done and some of their own ideas to make this quiz.

	davidr:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 08:01 GMT		4 points
	@ForPony: By my count, the IHO recognizes 107 different oceans and seas so there are about forty not included in this quiz.

	Yurian:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 08:02 GMT		-4 points
	Oh my god. I got 26 and half was one of the most gotten and half was way out there. How'd I do that, barely heard most of the ones of I got o.o

	Kitnaz:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 08:21 GMT		29 points
	English Channel?

	Kazbar:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 08:40 GMT		17 points
	No Great Salt Lake? Come on! That's nearly all we have!

	Onno:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 09:16 GMT		6 points
	Awesome. This quiz will keep me occupied for a couple of tries.

	speedbird007:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 09:39 GMT		-3 points
	channel? but apart from that gr8!!!

	mercian:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 09:57 GMT		47 points
	Sorry, the Celtic Sea might exist for geographers but in my 50 years in the UK I have never heard it used. It is not even the name of a sea area in the shipping forecast (which are in sporcle somewhere). And is the Aral Sea still in existence or fully dried up?

	darth_shrimper:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 10:12 GMT		22 points
	Totally agree with mercian there. I have never heard of any body of water around the British Isles called 'The Celtic Sea'

	gushuss32:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 10:35 GMT		4 points
	aaaaand i feel stupid.

	WCRoentgen:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 10:38 GMT		10 points
	I've never had a satisfactory answer to this: What body of water separates the southern coast of Australia from Antarctica? Is it all Indian Ocean? Is part of it the Pacific? Australian Bight? Southern Ocean? Thanks for great quiz!

	davidr:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 10:43 GMT		0 points
	@mercian: `North Sea', `English Channel' and `Atlantic Ocean' aren't names in the shipping forecast, either... The Celtic Sea is covered by the Shannon, Fastnet, Lundy, Plymouth and Sole areas, plus small parts of Fitzroy and Biscay. The name isn't used much by the general public but it's quite widely used in marine science and industry, as far as I can see.

	davidr:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 10:58 GMT		3 points
	@WCRoentgen: The International Hydrographic Organization has a map at http://www.iho.shom.fr/publicat/free/files/S23_Ed3_Sheet_1_Small.jpg The captions are illegible but can be found in http://www.iho.shom.fr/publicat/free/files/S23_1953.pdf 45 is the Indian Ocean, 61 is the Pacific and 62 is the Great Australian Bight. So, the area immediately south of Australia (between the south-west corner of the mainland and the southern tip of Tasmania) is the Great Australian Bight. The area immediately to the south of that is the Indian Ocean, and the areas west of Tasmania's southern point are the Pacific. The Southern Ocean doesn't appear on that map because the IHO has changed its mind about whether it exists or not. They didn't believe in it when the map I linked was drafted, but they did before then and they do again, now. They define it to run south of 60°S, which is the lowest line of latitude on the IHO map — a long way south of Australia.

	rockgolf:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 12:33 GMT		11 points
	I tried this but I was all at sea. ;-)

	Greg_:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 13:10 GMT		11 points
	At Davidr and Mercian: I'm a marine scientist and use the Celtic Sea as a reference on a daily basis.

	Catherine_F:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 13:31 GMT		-3 points
	I didn't notice the box representing the Mediterranean until the last minute! It would probably be helpful if it was labelled (not with the name of the sea, obviously, but perhaps the countries) or if there was just some indication of where on the world map it lies.

	tequila_sammer:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 13:40 GMT		7 points
	davidr - great quiz - didn't realise just how many bodies of water there are! but I'm a little confuddled that the English Channel isn't on the list - it's not a huge body of water, but it sure is an important one! Where else can you party on a cross channel ferry??? And I live right by the side of it too.....sniff

	Evan:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 13:55 GMT		2 points
	good quiz, but like a lot of people, I wish there had been a clarification of what it was looking for. e.g, Why was great bear lake listed and not great salt lake?

	jUNKIEd:	Jul 27th, 2009 at 14:10 GMT		2 points
	Russian spellings and siberian answers get me on all these geo quizzes. Still did better than I thought I would. If you have Lake Nicaragua I would expect to see some other lakes as well (Great Salt, Tonle Sap, Lake Eyre, etc.)