"The Nile, the Indus, the Yellow and Yangtze
Kiang, these all flow through the hearts of our race's
first civilizations. In their floods, they raised the
bricks of Babylon, the pyramids of Egypt, and the very
empire of China."
Yeah, but how many quiz bowlers
know the name of the longest river in Burundi because
of its symbolic or mythic significance? They know it
because at some point they looked on a map.
Doug