A little history/geography quiz

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Which Lake Holds the most Freshwater

Lake Superior is biggest by surface area, but there is a lake in Siberia that is a lot deeper and has more water. I forget the name though.

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Wrong continent, clue it feeds the Congo, River that is.

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OK, I did a little research, I would never have guessed your lake. So I won't mention the name yet. What's your source by the way?

Hmmm, we might have a disagreement here. My sources say Lake Baikal in Siberia has more water, about 4,500,000 cubic metres more than yours.

List of lakes by volume - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Largest Lake in the World - Largest in the United States - GEOLOGY.COM

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National Geograthic program I watched the secret is its depth as I remember, got that wrong

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Well, we learned something about lakes this question anway. Tanganyika still has more water than Superior.

OK new question.

This man was nominated before his death, but is the only person to actually win the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.

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Love this thread

This man was nominated before his death, but is the only person to actually win the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.

Probably not the right answer, but my guess would be Yitzhak Rabin? At least he was assasinated not that long after winning the prize, if memory serves me right (but it was probably after though).

[Mikkel_K]

This man was nominated before his death, but is the only person to actually win the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.

Probably not the right answer, but my guess would be Yitzhak Rabin? At least he was assasinated not that long after winning the prize, if memory serves me right (but it was probably after though).

Hmm, looked it up and Rabin got the prize in (December) 1994 and was murdered (damn extremist bastards!) November 4th 1995. So that was not the correct answer,I guess.

Also, I did find the correct answer, but will not write it here, as it would be cheating. Most likely it wont be much of a hint to anyone, but as a bonus info I can say that the American embassy here in Copenhagen is located on a major street named after him (not far from where I live btw). Also, the person is one of only two people from Scandinavia to receive the accolade post-WWII.

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Well, we learned something about lakes this question anway. Tanganyika still has more water than Superior.

OK new question.

This man was nominated before his death, but is the only person to actually win the Nobel Peace Prize posthumously.

No Idea, but I thought the question should be bumped. I love this thread.

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I didn't know this at all, so I have to admit that I did cheat and look this one up.


"In 1961, the prize was awarded to the second Secretary General of the UN, Dag Hammarskjöld, for strengthening the organization. Hammarskjöld is the only person to have received the prize posthumously, a few months after his death in a plane crash in the Congo; the Nobel statutes were later changed to make a posthumous prize virtually impossible."