What's the oldest extant man-excavated body of water in America?

[taterguy]

I'm trying to cheat in a trivia contest.

It says no Googling but it doesn't say anything about not asking elsewhere.

Please provide an answer right fucking now.

Thank you.

[BlueStreak]

1. There's the Erie Canal, but surely native Americans excavated something much earlier.

[taterguy]

7. Oh FFS

Erie wasn't finished until 1825.

The Dismal Swamp Canal opened in 1805.

No native American canals are still operating.

If you're going to answer, please answer correctly.

[In_The_Wind]

2. Mother Brook in Dedham, MA.

[mokawanis]

3. Lake Superior

It took a long time but they got the job done.

[taterguy]

10. WHo the fuck excavated Lake Superior?

[MiddleFingerMom]

12. Guys who thought they were better than the guys who excavated Lake Inferior.

[taterguy]

13. Where the fuck is Lake Inferior?

[MiddleFingerMom]

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[Paulie]

26. Flawless victory

[BlueStreak]

15. Those guys make me sick. They have a real attitude in Duluth.

I believe God used his fingers to scrape out the finger lakes. That must be the first example.

[MrScorpio]

4. The C and O Canal is my guess

[taterguy]

9. Your guess is wrong

[hunter]

5. Something Native American.

North, South, or Central America.

[taterguy]

8. Sorry, "something" is not an acceptable answer.

[Ptah]

6. Huhukam

In North America, the Huhukam were the only culture to rely on irrigation canals
to water their crops, and their irrigation systems supported the largest population
in the Southwest by AD 1300. Archaeologists working at a major archaeological
dig in the 1990s in the Tucson Basin, along the Santa Cruz River, identified a culture
and people that were ancestors of the Hohokam[4] that might have occupied southern
Arizona as early as 2000 BC. This prehistoric group from the Early Agricultural Period,
grew corn, lived year round in sedentary villages and developed
sophisticated irrigation canals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohokam

[MiddleFingerMom]

11. If it's a TRICK question, I'VE been pretty dried-up due to the fluid restrictions I've been on.

[taterguy]

17. It's a completely legit inquiry

But none of the dumbasses here know the answer.

[Tom Kitten]

18. i'll just go with the obvious

Lake Meade behind the Hoover Dam

[taterguy]

19. Or you could read the thread

And figure out the answer that way

[cliffordu]

20. Lake titicaca

I said 'titi' and 'caca'

I win. Period.

[taterguy]

21. You must be very proud

[cliffordu]

22. Thank you.

Do I get extra credit for 'period'?

[taterguy]

23. How much credit do you need?

[cliffordu]

24. About a buck fitty.

The bank keeps telling me to fuck myself.

[taterguy]

25. Let me check my couch cushions

Oh wait, I don't have a couch.

You're screwn.

[cliffordu]

30. Oh, FFS. You AND the bank??!!

My luck just keeps auguring into the ground. Pfthhhh

[trof]

27. The Rio Grande River. Pecos Bill did it with a stick.

Pecos lost his way while traveling on the desert...
It was ninety miles across the burning sand...
He knew he'd never reach the border
If he didn't get some water
So he got a stick and dug the Rio Grande

yer welcome

[taterguy]

28. Thank you

[struggle4progress]

29. The Salem Ditch. It was excavated for the original regatta, The Salem Ditch Trials

[taterguy]

31. I was asking about waterways, not ditches