Flood trivia quiz questions with answers
What is the term for a sudden flood caused by heavy
rainfall?
Answer: Flash flood.
What is the largest flood recorded in history?
Answer: The Yellow River flood of 1931, which killed an estimated 1-4
million people.
What is the name of the device used to measure
floodwater depth?
Answer: A staff gauge.
What is the term for a type of flood that occurs when
water overflows from a river or other body of water?
Answer: Riverine flood.
What is the term for a type of flood caused by a
hurricane or tropical storm?
Answer: Coastal flood.
What is the highest flood stage for a river?
Answer: Major flood stage.
What is the name of the process that causes flooding in
low-lying areas during high tide?
Answer: Tidal flooding.
What is the name of the world's largest river by
volume?
Answer: The Amazon River.
What is the name of the floodplain area that extends
from Illinois to Louisiana in the United States?
Answer: The Mississippi River Delta.
What is the name of the flood-control system that
protects the Netherlands from flooding?
Answer: The Delta Works.
What is the name of the agency responsible for managing
flood risk in the United States?
Answer: The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
What is the name of the flood protection system that
protects Venice, Italy?
Answer: The MOSE Project.
What is the name of the river that flows through Paris,
France?
Answer: The Seine River.
What is the name of the 1997 flood that devastated
Grand Forks, North Dakota?
Answer: The Red River Flood.
What is the term for a type of flood caused by a dam or
levee failure?
Answer: Dam or levee failure flood.
What is the name of the floodplain area that extends
from New York to Virginia in the United States?
Answer: The Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
What is the name of the 2011 flood that devastated
Bangkok, Thailand?
Answer: The 2011 Thailand Floods.
What is the name of the river that flows through
London, England?
Answer: The Thames River.
What is the name of the 1993 flood that devastated the
Midwest region of the United States?
Answer: The Great Flood of 1993.
What is the name of the flood-control system that
protects the city of New Orleans, Louisiana?
Answer: The Hurricane and Storm Damage Risk Reduction System.
What is the name of the river that flows through Rome,
Italy?
Answer: The Tiber River.
What is the name of the floodplain area that extends
from Texas to Louisiana in the United States?
Answer: The Gulf Coast Plain.
What is the name of the flood that devastated New
Orleans in 2005?
Answer: Hurricane Katrina.
What is the name of the river that flows through
Berlin, Germany?
Answer: The Spree River.
What is the name of the floodplain area that extends
from Nebraska to Texas in the United States?
Answer: The Great Plains.
What is the name of the flood-control system that
protects Tokyo, Japan?
Answer: The Tokyo Metropolitan Area Outer Underground Discharge Channel.
What is the name of the river that flows through
Budapest, Hungary?
Answer: The Danube River.
What is the name of the floodplain area that extends
from Maine to Virginia in the United States?
Answer: The Atlantic Coastal Plain.
What is the name of the 1998 flood that devastated
southern China?
Answer: The 1998 Yangtze River Flood.
