Q 01/05

The Three Gorges Dam spans which river?

A) The Yangtze

B) The Pearl River

C) The Yellow River

D) The Mekong

Answer · why

A) The Yangtze

The Yangtze. China built the dam partly to tame floods on Asia's longest river, which are thought to have killed some 300,000 people in the 20th centu...

Q 02/05

In which central Chinese province does the Three Gorges Dam stand?

A) Sichuan

B) Hunan

C) Hubei

D) Yunnan

Answer · why

C) Hubei

Hubei. The dam stands near the city of Yichang, and the reservoir that backs up behind it drowned well over a thousand towns and villages upstream.

Q 03/05

Which dam on the Brazil–Paraguay border did the Three Gorges Dam overtake as the world's largest hydroelectric plant?

A) Itaipu

B) Guri

C) Tucuruí

D) Belo Monte

Answer · why

A) Itaipu

Itaipu has under two-thirds of the Chinese dam's capacity, yet for years it generated about as much electricity, because the river at the Three Gorges...

Q 04/05

The Three Gorges Dam site at Sandouping was chosen partly because the bedrock there is which kind of rock?

A) Limestone

B) Sandstone

C) Basalt

D) Granite

Answer · why

D) Granite

Granite. Limestone lines much of the gorges, but at Sandouping the river crosses hard granite, a far sounder footing for a concrete wall more than two...

Q 05/05

China broke ground in 2025 on a hydropower project set to generate three times the Three Gorges Dam's electricity in which region?

A) Xinjiang

B) Tibet

C) Yunnan

D) Inner Mongolia

Answer · why

B) Tibet

Tibet. The Medog project taps a bend where the Yarlung Tsangpo drops about 2,000 metres in 50 km, and it has alarmed India and Bangladesh, which lie d...