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Islands & Archipelagos Quiz

Islands & Archipelagos · Medium

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Islands are landmasses completely surrounded by water, ranging from tiny coral atolls to vast landmasses like Greenland and Australia. Archipelagos are chains or clusters of island...

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All 20 questions in this Islands & Archipelagos quiz
  1. Which Scottish archipelago includes the islands of Mainland Hoy and South Ronaldsay?

    • A. Inner Hebrides
    • B. Shetland Islands
    • C. Orkney Islands
    • D. Outer Hebrides
  2. What is the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and to which country do they belong?

    • A. An independent island nation in the Bay of Bengal
    • B. A British Overseas Territory in the Indian Ocean
    • C. A Myanmarese territory in the Andaman Sea
    • D. An archipelago belonging to India located in the Bay of Bengal that was used as a penal colony during British rule and is home to some of the world's last uncontacted indigenous tribes
  3. What is Borneo and which countries share it?

    • A. The third largest island in the world shared between Indonesia Malaysia and Brunei
    • B. An island in the Indian Ocean shared between India and Sri Lanka
    • C. A Pacific island belonging to Japan
    • D. An island belonging entirely to Indonesia
  4. Which island is the only home of the 'Aye-aye' lemur?

    • A. Madagascar
    • B. Sumatra
    • C. Tasmania
    • D. Borneo
  5. What is the name of the volcanic archipelago in the Pacific that forms the nation of Vanuatu?

    • A. Melanesian Islands
    • B. Vanuatu Archipelago
    • C. New Hebrides
    • D. Solomon Chain
  6. What is the name of the group of volcanic islands in the Pacific known as the Galapagos of the Indian Ocean due to their unique wildlife?

    • A. Aldabra Atoll
    • B. Zanzibar
    • C. Comoros
    • D. Socotra
  7. What is the island of Tierra del Fuego and between which two countries is it divided?

    • A. An Australian island divided between Australia and New Zealand
    • B. A Chilean island with no international border
    • C. A UK Overseas Territory near the Falkland Islands
    • D. The southernmost major island on Earth divided between Chile and Argentina at the southern tip of South America
  8. Which Pacific island nation gained independence from Britain in 1978 and is famous for its WWII naval history?

    • A. Nauru
    • B. Solomon Islands
    • C. Tonga
    • D. Palau
  9. What is the name of the chain of islands including Trinidad and Tobago and what sea do they border?

    • A. The Greater Antilles bordering the Gulf of Mexico
    • B. The Lesser Antilles forming the eastern border of the Caribbean Sea
    • C. The ABC Islands bordering the Caribbean
    • D. The Bahamas bordering the Atlantic
  10. Which island is known as the Pearl of the Orient Seas?

    • A. Luzon
    • B. Philippines
    • C. Bali
    • D. Ceylon
  11. What is the name of the island state in Southeast Asia that is one of the world's smallest and wealthiest countries due to oil and gas?

    • A. Singapore
    • B. East Timor
    • C. Maldives
    • D. Brunei
  12. What is the name of the island nation in the Indian Ocean famous for its vanilla and ylang-ylang production?

    • A. Seychelles
    • B. Mayotte
    • C. Comoros
    • D. Runion
  13. Which country consists of over 17,000 islands?

    • A. Maldives
    • B. Philippines
    • C. Japan
    • D. Indonesia
  14. Which is the world's largest island country?

    • A. Madagascar
    • B. Indonesia
    • C. United Kingdom
    • D. Japan
  15. Which is the largest island?

    • A. Borneo
    • B. Greenland
    • C. New Guinea
    • D. Australia
  16. The Marsupial 'Quokka' is famous for living on Rottnest Island in which country?

    • A. Australia
    • B. New Zealand
    • C. Indonesia
    • D. Fiji
  17. Which island nation in the Pacific was the site of the world's largest nuclear tests?

    • A. Tonga
    • B. Samoa
    • C. Marshall Islands
    • D. Palau
  18. What are the Cyclades and where are they located?

    • A. A group of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea arranged in a rough circle around the sacred island of Delos
    • B. A chain of Albanian islands in the Adriatic
    • C. A chain of Turkish islands in the Black Sea
    • D. An Italian archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea
  19. Which island is the largest in the Mediterranean Sea?

    • A. Sicily
    • B. Sardinia
    • C. Crete
    • D. Cyprus
  20. What is the name of the group of islands in the Indian Ocean that includes Mauritius and has a colonial history involving the dodo?

    • A. Chagos Islands
    • B. Lakshadweep
    • C. Mascarene Islands
    • D. Seychelles