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Islands Trivia: 40 Walking Statues, Time-Swapping Borders & Alien Archipelagos

Forget basic beach postcards—explore 40 wild stories behind mutineer hideouts, six-month island time-shares, crab migrations, and the planet's most extraordinary islands.

Which ice-covered landmass is officially the largest non-continental island on Earth?

Question 1 of 40Easy

1.Which ice-covered landmass is officially the largest non-continental island on Earth?

Which Indonesian island packs over 156 million people, outpopulating all of Russia?

Question 2 of 40Easy

2.Which Indonesian island packs over 156 million people, outpopulating all of Russia?

What animal actually gave the Canary Islands their ancient Roman name?

Question 3 of 40Medium

3.What animal actually gave the Canary Islands their ancient Roman name?

Which giant Asian island is shared by three separate sovereign nations?

Question 4 of 40Easy

4.Which giant Asian island is shared by three separate sovereign nations?

How do France and Spain peacefully share tiny Pheasant Island every year?

Question 5 of 40Medium

5.How do France and Spain peacefully share tiny Pheasant Island every year?

Why can you walk from yesterday into tomorrow between the Diomede Islands?

Question 6 of 40Easy

6.Why can you walk from yesterday into tomorrow between the Diomede Islands?

Which country tops every world ranking with roughly 267,570 total islands?

Question 7 of 40Medium

7.Which country tops every world ranking with roughly 267,570 total islands?

What oozes from Yemen's umbrella-shaped Socotra island trees when their bark breaks?

Question 8 of 40Medium

8.What oozes from Yemen's umbrella-shaped Socotra island trees when their bark breaks?

How did Rapa Nui islanders say Easter Island's giant moai statues moved?

Question 9 of 40Easy

9.How did Rapa Nui islanders say Easter Island's giant moai statues moved?

Why has Brazil outlawed civilian landings on Ilha da Queimada Grande?

Question 10 of 40Easy

10.Why has Brazil outlawed civilian landings on Ilha da Queimada Grande?

Which island's fifty residents mostly descend from 1789 HMS Bounty mutineers?

Question 11 of 40Medium

11.Which island's fifty residents mostly descend from 1789 HMS Bounty mutineers?

What shuts down roads and bridges across Australia's Christmas Island each autumn?

Question 12 of 40Easy

12.What shuts down roads and bridges across Australia's Christmas Island each autumn?

Why does NASA test Mars rovers and spacesuits on Canada's Devon Island?

Question 13 of 40Hard

13.Why does NASA test Mars rovers and spacesuits on Canada's Devon Island?

Which Lake Huron giant is the largest freshwater lake island on Earth?

Question 14 of 40Medium

14.Which Lake Huron giant is the largest freshwater lake island on Earth?

What giant currency still sits beside village paths on Micronesia's Yap Island?

Question 15 of 40Medium

15.What giant currency still sits beside village paths on Micronesia's Yap Island?

Why has nobody set foot on India's North Sentinel Island for decades?

Question 16 of 40Easy

16.Why has nobody set foot on India's North Sentinel Island for decades?

Which island birthed a volcanic lake holding a crater lake island inside?

Question 17 of 40Hard

17.Which island birthed a volcanic lake holding a crater lake island inside?

What caused the volcanic island of Surtsey to appear off Iceland in 1963?

Question 18 of 40Medium

18.What caused the volcanic island of Surtsey to appear off Iceland in 1963?

Which island's marooned Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe?

Question 19 of 40Medium

19.Which island's marooned Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk inspired the novel Robinson Crusoe?

Which Atlantic volcano is the most remote inhabited archipelago on planet Earth?

Question 20 of 40Medium

20.Which Atlantic volcano is the most remote inhabited archipelago on planet Earth?

What animal inspired Spanish sailors to name the Galapagos Islands in 1535?

Question 21 of 40Easy

21.What animal inspired Spanish sailors to name the Galapagos Islands in 1535?

What did eccentric caretaker Brendon Grimshaw spend forty years planting on Moyenne Island?

Question 22 of 40Hard

22.What did eccentric caretaker Brendon Grimshaw spend forty years planting on Moyenne Island?

Why is it legally forbidden to die or bury anyone on Svalbard?

Question 23 of 40Medium

23.Why is it legally forbidden to die or bury anyone on Svalbard?

Which Canadian shipwreck sandbar is famous for five hundred wild marooned horses?

Question 24 of 40Medium

24.Which Canadian shipwreck sandbar is famous for five hundred wild marooned horses?

Why did Denmark and Canada leave whiskey bottles on Arctic Hans Island?

Question 25 of 40Easy

25.Why did Denmark and Canada leave whiskey bottles on Arctic Hans Island?

Which island's 1883 volcanic explosion was heard three thousand miles away?

Question 26 of 40Easy

26.Which island's 1883 volcanic explosion was heard three thousand miles away?

What outnumbers human residents six to one on Japan's Aoshima Island?

Question 27 of 40Easy

27.What outnumbers human residents six to one on Japan's Aoshima Island?

Why did ninety percent of Madagascar's wild plants and animals evolve uniquely?

Question 28 of 40Easy

28.Why did ninety percent of Madagascar's wild plants and animals evolve uniquely?

What creates the illusion of an underwater waterfall off Mauritius Island's coast?

Question 29 of 40Medium

29.What creates the illusion of an underwater waterfall off Mauritius Island's coast?

Why was Venice built atop 118 muddy lagoon islands in the fifth century?

Question 30 of 40Medium

30.Why was Venice built atop 118 muddy lagoon islands in the fifth century?

Which island holds Puncak Jaya, the highest island mountain peak on Earth?

Question 31 of 40Medium

31.Which island holds Puncak Jaya, the highest island mountain peak on Earth?

What did Japanese engineers build Kansai International Airport on in Osaka Bay?

Question 32 of 40Medium

32.What did Japanese engineers build Kansai International Airport on in Osaka Bay?

Which tiny Kenyan island packs 6,500 residents onto two car-free football fields?

Question 33 of 40Hard

33.Which tiny Kenyan island packs 6,500 residents onto two car-free football fields?

What turned Japan's former World War II poison-gas island Okunoshima into a tourist magnet?

Question 34 of 40Easy

34.What turned Japan's former World War II poison-gas island Okunoshima into a tourist magnet?

What hexagonal rock columns link Scotland's Staffa Island to Ireland's Giant's Causeway?

Question 35 of 40Medium

35.What hexagonal rock columns link Scotland's Staffa Island to Ireland's Giant's Causeway?

Why does Saba Island hold the shortest commercial airport runway on Earth?

Question 36 of 40Medium

36.Why does Saba Island hold the shortest commercial airport runway on Earth?

Which island group was named the Friendly Islands by Captain James Cook?

Question 37 of 40Medium

37.Which island group was named the Friendly Islands by Captain James Cook?

What covers the desert island of Nauru after a century of mining?

Question 38 of 40Hard

38.What covers the desert island of Nauru after a century of mining?

Which Dutch island chain lets hikers walk between islands across mudflats at low tide?

Question 39 of 40Hard

39.Which Dutch island chain lets hikers walk between islands across mudflats at low tide?

Why do Okinawa islanders enjoy the highest centenarian longevity rate on Earth?

Question 40 of 40Easy

40.Why do Okinawa islanders enjoy the highest centenarian longevity rate on Earth?