Statistics for Islands in History

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Ruled by Fidel Castro for more than 50 years	Cuba	99%
Struck by a potato blight in the 1840s	Ireland	94%
Before the 1500s, it was possible to walk to this island from India	Sri Lanka	92%
Turkey invaded this island in 1974 and today controls about 40% of its land	Cyprus	91%
Inhabitants built large stone faces known as "moai"	Easter Island	86%
Where Chiang Kai-shek and his army fled to in 1949	Taiwan	86%
Hadrian's Wall divided it in half in the 2nd century AD	Great Britain	85%
Mediterranean island ruled by the Knights Hospitaller from 1530–1798	Malta	85%
Formerly known as Van Diemen's Land, it joined Australia in 1901	Tasmania	84%
"Inescapable" prison island where Al Capone spent some time	Alcatraz	83%
Home to the Minoan civilization	Crete	82%
Where Rastafarian religion got its start in the 1930s	Jamaica	82%
This island's "Cosa Nostra" crime syndicate evolved from private security forces in the 19th century	Sicily	78%
This island's Colossus was a 33 meter high statue of the god Helios	Rhodes	72%
Home to the world's oldest Parliament, the Althing	Iceland	65%
The western half of this island was ruled by "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc" Duvalier	Hispaniola	64%
Dutch settlers bought this island from Native Americans for goods worth 60 guilders (about $1000 in today's money)	Manhattan	59%
Remote island in the middle of the Atlantic where Napoleon died in 1821	Saint Helena	59%
In 1819, Stamford Raffles established a British colony on this strategic site near the Strait of Malacca	Singapore	55%
A weapons ban contributed to the development of karate on this island	Okinawa	41%