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cpgatbyu
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level 75
Oct 16, 2013
There are several "North Island"s.
wolfcat95
+3
level 51
Oct 29, 2013
That may be, but the one in New Zealand is one of the 15 largest islands on the planet and should be known by geographical scholars everywhere. I used to live in San Diego; I wouldn't expect someone in the geography department at Cairo University to know of North Island Naval Air Station, but if they didn't know of North Island, New Zealand, I would question their credentials.
joesoap
+2
level 31
Dec 5, 2013
I've heard Tasmanians refer to mainland Australia as 'The North Island"!
samiamco
+1
level 70
May 18, 2016
That would be really odd, since it's off the south of Australia.
Findlay
+2
level 69
Aug 4, 2016
I think you misread the previous statement. Tasmanians refer to the Australian mainland - which is north of Tasmania - as the north island. I've heard this too, though it's rare and very much tongue in cheek.
Jerry928
+3
level 71
Sep 13, 2016
A favorite T-shirt in New Zealand shows an outline of the country with a microscopic Australia to the side, with the labels North Island, South Island and West Island.
seokeunshichae
+2
level 71
Nov 3, 2013
weird...same percentage of people got sahkalin correct as curacao and mindano...would have thought the latter two were more recognizable...only got sahkalin right because i lived there
kalbahamut
+1
level 75
Jan 30, 2014
I got Sakhalin probably because I've memorized it for other island-related quizzes on the site. I got Mindanao because I spend a lot of time in the Philippines and have been there before, though actually I think I had heard of it before my first trip. Curacao I knew was a famous cruise stop in the Caribbean but that one actually took me the longest to get. I knew that the Dutch had some islands there so got it on my 3rd or 4th guess I think.
kiwiquizzer
+1
level 60
Sep 13, 2016
I learned Sakhalin from lots of island Jetpunk quizes I've done (and the world map on my toilet wall), and when a Russian person started at my workplace (in New Zealand) I asked whereabouts she was from and was very excited when she said Sakhalin. She was very surprised I knew where it was.
travelfan
+1
level 71
Apr 23, 2014
I had never heard of Sakhalin before, but the name had a clear Russian sound to it so it was an easy guess.
tshalla
+1
level 67
May 14, 2016
Telly Savalas in Sakhalin??? Now that's some random falseness!
Findlay
+1
level 69
Aug 4, 2016
That is a surprisingly random, completely incorrect fact.
Bonzo007
+2
level 62
Sep 13, 2016
Savalas was born in New York, of Greek parents. I doubt he ever even holidayed in Sakhalin.
DonTheLamplighter
+1
level 70
Sep 13, 2016
Telly Savalas was of Greek ancestry, but was born in the USA. Do you mean Yul Brynner? He was born in Far Eastern Russia, though I believe in Vladivostok, not Sakhalin.
JoeCrouchMMA
+1
level 61
Sep 13, 2016
Telly Savalas born in NY. He lied about being born in Sakhalin!
eliaz55
+1
level 21
Dec 6, 2013
Hong Kong is only partly an island - the "original" Hong Kong was just the island, but it's not nowadays (Kowloon and New Territories are on mainland China). It's also questionable if Hong Kong fully belongs to China - it was a british crown colony, and is classified as a Special Administrive Region.
(sorry for long text chunk lol)
plattitude
+1
level 82
Jan 22, 2014
All true, but the island upon which Central, Wan Chai, Aberdeen, etc. reside is still called Hong Kong (though Hong Kong (transliterated (badly) from 香港) actually means 'fragrant harbor' (don't ask what fragrance) and so doesn't refer to any 'land' at all). Although it is an autonomous region, it fully belongs to China, and people of Chinese descent born in Hong Kong (before or after the transition) are considered by China as Chinese nationals.
kalbahamut
+1
level 75
Jan 30, 2014
^what he said
Tramp
+1
level 68
Jan 30, 2014
"All true, but the island upon which Central, Wan Chai, Aberdeen, etc. reside is still called Hong Kong"
The full name is actually Hong Kong Island, so yeah, the quiz is fine.
Gyrenaica
+1
level 34
Jan 30, 2014
Lol only got Sakhalin cuz it sounds like stalin.
Carry
+2
level 60
Feb 14, 2014
Majorca bugs me. I remember that from last time I took this quiz. I know it's the correct English spelling but I don't like it. In Spanish it's Mallorca and the ll is basically pronounced like j. In Germany we call it Mallorca too. Some people pronounce the ll as a ll though. Which is annoying too but less than an actual j in the spelling. If that makes any sense. XD
Findlay
+1
level 69
Aug 4, 2016
Yeah, and I suspect the 'j' is used in English because it is intended to be pronounced like an English 'j', but people, knowing the place is in Spain pronounce it as a Spanish 'j', which actually takes you further from the proper pronunciation. Much easier to just use the proper spelling.
GeogBoy
+1
level 17
Nov 4, 2015
That was interesting.
CringeDragon
+1
level 65
Dec 28, 2015
Zealand should be in New Zealand, not Denmark!!!!
rocamorar
+1
level 67
Mar 2, 2016
Sure. And New York should be in the UK, and New Orleans in France.
mushroomsteve
+2
level 49
Sep 14, 2016
Actually, by the logic presented in saying that Zealand should be in New Zealand, it SHOULD follow that York and Orleans should be in the United States.
samiamco
+1
level 70
May 18, 2016
To further confuse the matter, New Zealand wasn't even named after the Danish island of Zealand, but rather a totally different Zealand: a province in the Netherlands! And there's even a Zealand in Canada; for all I know at this point, it could be named after a mountain in Senegal.
Findlay
+1
level 69
Aug 4, 2016
Notably the Dutch one is Zeeland, not Zealand, but despite being named after a place in the Netherlands, the spelling of a place in Denmark is used.
Ramster
+1
level 66
Sep 13, 2016
You can thank one of Captain James Cook's cartographers for that typo
kiwiquizzer
+1
level 60
Sep 13, 2016
Thanks for the typo, Jim.
torny81
+1
level 65
Sep 13, 2016
No one in Italy would ever consider Venice as an island. 117 islands are part of the city, but the city itself seats on the mainland. Would you ever consider the whole Italy as an island?!!?
Sonicfanrs
+1
level 33
Sep 16, 2016
Phuket, Thailand was Final Jeopardy answer on September 12, 2016. "Phuket, the largeset island of this country, has regained its tourism industry after a natural disaster in 2004". :D :D :D
Jarl5
+3
level 57
May 24, 2017
Still had several left, but I was like "Phuket".
jandjandlemur
+1
level 47
May 30, 2017
Curacao is an independent country according to Wikipedia and the webpage cause I searched it up
divantilya
+2
level 38
Jun 29, 2017
Not sovereign. And only semi-independent (Netherlands still responsible for national defense and foreign policy to a great extent)
Malbaby
+1
level 67
Dec 11, 2017
jandjandlemur..........Where did you search to get such wrong information?.......
Guam
+1
level 62
Jun 14, 2018
Quizmaster, I'm using your name in a logic puzzle, I hope you're okay with that.
Lithuanian
+1
level 21
Jan 28, 2019
:)
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