Four famous rivers, four plausible-sounding seas. Only two of the four pairings actually hold up.
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Four Rivers, Checked Against Their Real Mouths
- The Volga genuinely empties into the Caspian Sea, the world’s largest inland body of water.
- The Zambezi genuinely empties into the Indian Ocean, on Mozambique’s coast.
- The Mekong does not empty into the Andaman Sea. It flows through Vietnam’s Mekong Delta into the South China Sea.
- The Thames does not empty into the Irish Sea. It flows east through London into the North Sea.
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Two Correct Pairs, Two Wrong
- Correct pairs Volga–Caspian Sea and Zambezi–Indian Ocean both hold up.
- Wrong pairs Mekong actually reaches the South China Sea, and Thames actually reaches the North Sea.
- Answer: (c) 3 and 4 only.
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