From the Hebrides to Antipodes … how are you on islands, isles and islets – archipelago-go-go or just no-no-no?
Great Britain is the world’s ninth-biggest island, but how many times would it fit into the world’s biggest island (not continent)?
5
7
10
20
Eelam is an indigenous name for which popular holiday island?
Isle of Man
Sri Lanka
Bali
Mauritius
This US suspension bridge links Brooklyn with which New York island?
Staten Island
Long Island
Manhattan
Roosevelt Island
Not every islander leaves gifts on this ‘Fairy Bridge’ but few ever cross it without discreetly greeting the ‘little people’. Which island is it found on?
Isle of Wight
Isle of Mull
Tresco
Isle of Man
Providence is the capital of which island state?
Bermuda
Nova Scotia
Solomon Islands
Rhode Island
Which Mediterranean island’s name is thought to come from words meaning honey-sweet?
Malta
Sicily
Milos
Zakynthos
In 1821 a Spanish Navy officer tried to sell which island to a US general for “a small sloop worth $575”?
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Key West
Haiti
These houses are in the capital of Aruba, an island visited by nearly 2 million US tourists every year. But which country does it belong to?
Spain
Venezuela
The Netherlands
France
This handsome medieval city centre is on an island in the Trave River. What is it called?
Ghent
Malmö
Lübeck
Utrecht
Ortygia island is the oldest part of a city visited by Plato, Pindar and Cicero, and home to the great mathematician and bath-lover Archimedes. Which city?
Corinth, Greece
Tyre, Lebanon
Ephesus, Turkey
Syracuse, Sicily
One country is home to three of the world’s top 10 islands by size. Which country?
Indonesia
Russia
Canada
Japan
Which is the biggest island in the southern hemisphere?
New Zealand’s South Island
Borneo
New Guinea
Madagascar
What do these islands have in common? Île aux Cygnes, France; Shui Keng Teng, Hong Kong; IJburg, The Netherlands; and Uros, Peru?
They are all artificial islands
They all sit in fresh, not salt, water
They disappear at high tide
They are all privately owned
Fort Boyard, a manmade island off France’s Atlantic coast, is known for … ?
The TV series of the same name
The location for the 1967 film The Last Adventure
Being completely useless as a fortification by the time it was completed in 1857 because of artillery developments
All of the above
Sex and sunshine reality show Love Island looks set for an autumn revival, but given that Mallorca can be a bit chilly by then, where might the new series be filmed?
Cyprus
Malta
Turkey
The Canaries
11 and above.
Well done: we’d offer an island in the sun – if anyone could travel
0 and above.
Where have you been marooned?
6 and above.
Not bad – but no ‘treasure’
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Source: Gaurdian