91 The Great Lakes Of North America Trivia Questions with Answers
91 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which river connects Lake Erie with Lake Ontario in the Great Lakes system?
Answer
Niagara River
Which Great Lake is the only one named after a U.S. state?
Answer
Lake Michigan
Which Great Lake is the easternmost?
Answer
Lake Ontario
What are the three waterfalls that make up Niagara Falls?
Answer
Horseshoe, American, Bridal Veil
Which ice sheet helped carve the basins of North America’s Great Lakes?
Answer
Laurentide Ice Sheet
Which Great Lake is the warmest on average?
Answer
Lake Erie
What is the largest city on the shores of the Great Lakes?
Answer
Toronto
Which Great Lake is connected to Lake Superior by the St. Marys River?
Answer
Lake Huron
What is the lowest natural point on the Great Lakes water surface?
Answer
Lake Ontario
Who commanded the American fleet to victory at the 1813 Battle of Lake Erie?
Answer
Oliver Hazard Perry
Which bridge crosses the Straits of Mackinac between Lakes Michigan and Huron?
Answer
Mackinac Bridge
Which Great Lake has the city of Cleveland on its southern shore?
Answer
Lake Erie
Which Great Lake did the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sink in during 1975?
Answer
Lake Superior
Which Great Lake is the shallowest overall?
Answer
Lake Erie
Which Indigenous people gave Lake Erie its name?
Answer
Erie people
Which of North America’s Great Lakes has the greatest surface area?
Answer
Lake Superior
Which Great Lake drains into the Atlantic Ocean through the St. Lawrence River?
Answer
Lake Ontario
What is the name of the channel that links Lake Huron and Lake Michigan?
Answer
Straits of Mackinac
Which agreement, signed in 1972, began formal U.S.–Canadian cooperation to protect Great Lakes water quality?
Answer
Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement
At approximately what elevation above sea level is Lake Erie’s surface?
Answer
174 metres
Which treaty established the basic international boundary rules for the Great Lakes?
Answer
Boundary Waters Treaty of 1909
What dam regulates Lake Ontario’s outflow into the St. Lawrence River?
Answer
Moses-Saunders Power Dam
Which Great Lake contains the North American Great Lakes’ largest bay?
Answer
Lake Huron
Which Great Lake has the largest watershed?
Answer
Lake Huron
Which Great Lake has the largest freshwater dune system in the world?
Answer
Lake Michigan
Which Great Lake is known by the Ojibwe-derived name meaning “great lake”?
Answer
Lake Michigan
What is the approximate surface area of Lake Huron?
Answer
23,000 square miles
What is the name of Lake Michigan’s deepest basin?
Answer
Chippewa Basin
Which river connects Lake Erie with Lake St. Clair?
Answer
Detroit River
Which U.S. national park is located on islands in Lake Superior?
Answer
Isle Royale National Park
How many U.S. states border at least one Great Lake?
Answer
Eight
What is the largest island in Lake Huron?
Answer
Manitoulin Island
Which Great Lake is most vulnerable to winter ice cover?
Answer
Lake Erie