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This is a toughie. I have to assume that "watershed" applies to any tiny brook that might cross the Canadian border, and feeds into a bigger river, and all the rest of them downstream. If so, that eliminates the Missouri River and the Mississippi River that the Missouri flows into. I am also going to assume that "watersheds" don't flow upstream, so I think I have a very good guess. It has to be the Ohio River.

(No Googling on this one. I reasoned it out all by myself, which most likely means that I am probably wrong again.)

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Darn! I was going to start breeding Calico Cats. I thought I would make a fortune from cat ladies.

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Frank

Frank, we're on rivers now. The cats are old business...

Put your thinking cap on, and go with the flow. I've already claimed the Ohio River for myself, but there a lot of other rivers out there, and someone's wild ass guess will nail it. It might as well be your wild ass guess that turns out to be right as anyone's. So put those calicos aside, and start rollin' on the river...

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Not the Ohio River. Watershed is synonymous with "drainage area." And while the Ohio River's drainage area is entirely in the US, there are longer rivers that also qualify.

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The Florida Everglades.

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Frank

No.

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two questions.

1) does the name of the river have a state in the name?

2) Missouri river?

Well, that is certainly true as far as love, war, and patent law goes, but I'm not sure it is the best model for understanding history. The natural inclination of many people often seems to be to give the entire credit pot to a single individual, which reinforces an often false (and sometimes almost teleological) belief in the idea of a series of "lone geniuses" bringing advances. Acknowledging the Elisha Grays, and the Joseph Swans, and the Cooks and Wheatstones, and the Leibnizes (etc.) along with the Bells, the Edisons, the Morses, and the Newtons (etc.) acts as a corrective on that tendency and demonstrates larger processes that were often at work in these areas.

Besides, this is a trivia forum, and if Elisha Gray doesn't qualify as trivia, I don't know who does.

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Not the Missouri as part of its drainage area extend into Canada.

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No, but it's a good guess (as was Ohio from Cloudy.) There is a river about 400 miles longer than the Snake whose drainage area is entirely in the US.

-- RWM

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How about the Red River (of the South)?

Not that one either. There is one qualifying river that is longer, by about 300 miles.

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Colorado?

Not a qualifying river as it flows into Mexico. And it's not the Colorado River within Texas either.

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At this point 24 hours have passed. If nobody gets the correct answer within the next 24 hours, Noles will get to ask the next question, as he named the second-longest river whose drainage area is entirely in the US.

I am not giving out clues.

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The Arkansas River is pretty long.
Fairly sure it's in the 1400s at least.
Given the Snake River is about a 1000 miles and your previous reference to distance, let's just say I like my chances.
I'm curious why the Mississippi River doesn't count.

The Mississippi doesn't count because its drainage area includes that of all its tributaries, including the Missouri River, whose drainage area extends into Canada. The correct answer is the Arkansas River, so you get the next question.

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The Ohio River is nearly 1,000 miles long. How could it lose...? I guess the Arkansas river includes little streams and creeks upstream that someone decided to consider as part of it. The Ohio River is a real river all of the way.

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The Arkansas River is about 1,450 miles long, and is the 6th-longest US river. How you define a "real" river is up to you.

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Nothing against your question, which is understood and fine in and of itself, but I guess my real issue here is that I've always had a bit of an ax to grind with the inconsistent tomfoolery with the completely arbitrary geological standards for water systems.
Why does the Atlantic separate the US and France for purposes of border but the Ohio River is not considered separating Indiana and Kentucky? If Indiana borders Kentucky then I say the US borders France.
I also say the Harlem River is the Harlem Strait.
And why are Lakes Michigan and Huron considered two lakes?
Why isn't there some system to consider the Mississippi, or any river that merges, by itself alone?
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"Did you ever notice that when rain clouds form in other countries and then come over and rain into the Arkansas River, it still gets credit as only draining American water? Did you ever notice that Spotes gripes too much about insignificant issues that only he really gives a crap about?"

In honor of my boy ANON, what unique trait do the movies The Racket and Seventh Heaven share?

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In my opinion, a "real" river must be able to allow a steamboat or a towboat pushing ten barges full of coal to navigate it from one end to the other. Any small stream that one can wade across, should be considered a tributary of the "real" river, and not part of it.

Hell, I'm just kidding you. You are absolutely correct. Good question, ZOG.

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Do you mean apart from them both being silent pictures being remade into sound versions? If so, which version of these films are we comparing?

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