1. Great Britain is the world's ninth-biggest island, but how many times would it fit into the world's biggest island (not continent)?

   1. 5

   2. 7

   3. 10

   4. 20

2. 

   This US suspension bridge links Brooklyn with which New York island?

   1. Staten Island

   2. Long Island

   3. Manhattan

   4. Roosevelt Island

3. 

   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?

   1. Isle of Wight

   2. Isle of Mull

   3. Tresco

   4. Isle of Man

4. 

   Providence is the capital of which island state?

   1. Bermuda

   2. Nova Scotia

   3. Solomon Islands

   4. Rhode Island

5. 

   Which Mediterranean island's name is thought to come from words meaning honey-sweet?

   1. Malta

   2. Sicily

   3. Milos

   4. Zakynthos

6. Which of these islands had a GDP per capita of $115,913 in 2018?

   1. Isle of Man

   2. Bermuda

   3. Macau

   4. Singapore

7. 

   In 1821 a Spanish Navy officer tried to sell which island to a US general for "a small sloop worth $575"?

   1. Cuba

   2. Puerto Rico

   3. Key West

   4. Haiti

8. 

   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?

   1. Spain

   2. Venezuela

   3. The Netherlands

   4. France

9. 

   This handsome medieval city centre is on an island in the Trave River. What is it called?

   1. Ghent

   2. Malmö

   3. Lübeck

   4. Utrecht

10. 

    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?

    1. Corinth, Greece

    2. Tyre, Lebanon

    3. Ephesus, Turkey

    4. Syracuse, Sicily

11. One country is home to three of the world's top 10 islands by size. Which country?

    1. Indonesia

    2. Russia

    3. Canada

    4. Japan

12. Which is the biggest island in the southern hemisphere?

    1. New Zealand's South Island

    2. Borneo

    3. New Guinea

    4. Madagascar

13. What do these islands have in common? Île aux Cygnes, France; Shui Keng Teng, Hong Kong; IJburg, The Netherlands; and Uros, Peru?

    1. They are all artificial islands

    2. They all sit in fresh, not salt, water

    3. They disappear at high tide

    4. They are all privately owned

14. 

    Fort Boyard, a manmade island off France's Atlantic coast, is known for … ?

    1. The TV series of the same name

    2. The location for the 1967 film The Last Adventure

    3. Being completely useless as a fortification by the time it was completed in 1857 because of artillery developments

    4. All of the above

15. 

    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 are producers saying the new series might be filmed?

    1. Cyprus

    2. Malta

    3. Turkey

    4. The Canaries

Solutions

1:C - Greenland is 822,700 square miles to Great Britain's 80,823 but its population is just under 57,000 - about the same as Aldershot, 2:A - The Verrazzano-Narrows bridge, opened in 1964, was the world's longest suspension bridge until overtaken by the Humber Bridge in 1981, 3:D, 4:D - OK – trick question. The New England mainland state of Rhode Island was so named either: because Giovanni da Verrazzano (see Q3) thought an island off its coast looked like Rhodes, Greece; or after a Dutch description of it in 1625 as "a reddish island"., 5:A - The ancient Greeks called the island Μελίτη (Melitē), meaning 'honey-sweet', possibly for Malta's endemic honey bees, 6:C - Its casino resorts are the backbone of the econmoy, 7:C - Juan Pablo Salas tried to sell the island twice – first for a sloop valued at $575 to a General John Geddes, then to US businessman John W Simonton, for the equivalent of $2,000 in pesos in 1821, 8:C, 9:C, 10:D - The east coast city was founded by Ancient Greeks and became a powerful part of the Magna Graecia empire, 11:C - Baffin, Victoria and Ellesmere islands in Canada are all more than 75,000 square miles in size, 12:C - Spilt between Papua New Guinea and Western New Guinea, part of Indonesia, this is the world's second-largest island, 13:A - Three of them were created in the past 200 years, but Uros, a group of reed islands in Lake Titicaca, pre-dates the Inca empire, 14:D, 15:D, 16:, 17:, 18:, 19:, 20:

Scores

1. 11 and above.

   Well done: we'd offer an island in the sun – if anyone could travel

2. 0 and above.

   Where have you been marooned?

3. 6 and above.

   Not bad – but no 'treasure'