Maybe this picture will help. http://www.aprendeinglessila.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/diagram-british-isles.gif This is the simple version that doesnt deal with the isle of man or channel isalnds. Baby steps ;) Dont want to throw too much info at once, or it wont stick.
Why is this something that is so difficult for people to understand? The UK is a country. Great Britain is the largest island within that country. Ireland is an island, made of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, which is part of the UK. The British Isles refer to Great Britain, Ireland, and all the other smaller islands around them.
I am pretty certain Australia most definitely counts as a country. It is part of the continent of Oceania. There's only seven continents, with India also considered as a sub-continent. Australia is not a continental landmass, it is an island country. A very large one, but still a country nevertheless.
How is it that a large island such as Sumatra, with its rich culture that is totally different from any other part of Indonesia is not a sovereign country in its own right?
Being different in culture doesn't necessarily means that it should be separated from the country it belongs. It can be seen in the way that it enrich the country's culture. Sumatrans also share a lot of similarity in history with other parts of Indonesia as well, even before colonialism took place in Indonesia.
And by the way, most people living in Sumatra also do not have intention to form their own country, with the exception of those living in Aceh, I would say (It's now still kind of unclear regarding this issue, but there haven't been any separatist movements there lately).
UK is the country, Great Britain is the island. The UK exists on two main islands, Great Britain and Ireland, that's why the full name is "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland". Accepting UK is like accepting "Indonesia" to get all their islands.
yes and all the islands on the quiz are part of a country, though a few are a country in its own right, but they are the minority. Only madagascar, iceland and sri lanka, are the countries that are the entire island and its own country at the same time. (and no NOT ireland, cause on the island of ireland there is the republic of ireland and northern ireland which belongs to the uk)
Geez, does NO ONE read comments before writing their own? At least you were a bit original with the PNG suggestion, but PNG is not an island; it's a country.
Perhaps it should be emphaised in the notes at the start that it is names of ISLANDS that are needed NOT countries. (Noting that in some cases they are the same but not necessarily all the ones you expect.) Then people could not read that as well as all the previous comments.
Of course it's also part of the name of the country Papua New Guinea and of a province in Indonesia, and is incorporated in a bunch of historical and current place-names there. But I think accepting "Papua" would be a reasonable thing to do (but not PNG).
faints... are these people serious?? one person ok... but sooo many and NONE of them apparently know how to read, not even one comment above theirs. How can you miss the previous comment !
All of the people who do nothing but complain about every little thing they disagree with should start their own quiz website to promote their illogical and unsupported opinions. These new quiz websites would undoubtedly have much more success than Jet Punk because there is too much attention to facts here. Seriously, I don't know how the webmaster can be so patient with ridiculous requests. Instead of responding with well constructed answers detailing why the users' comments are wrong, I would just answer "no".
haha, sounds like my dad. Not at ALL what he would say, but once he made his mind up, you cant change it (but sometimes he suddenly does an 180 and is as adamant about that standpoint as he was about the previous one...)
quizmaster only showed up once in this quiz, and his response wasnt the usual patient one ( but a very funny one imo :) ) all the patient/lengthy explanations came from other users.
I think quizmaster usually doesnt answer the extremely dumb questions ( anymore) the ones that get asked over and over. (england, greenland, russia, cyprus etc). But yea still must take an awfull time to sift through all the requests... let alone replying.
No. The large island is Great Britain. Britain is an ambiguous term which could refer to the island of Great Britain, the modern country also called the United Kingdom, or older kingdoms and provinces that predate the modern country. Most often I believe the term Britain is used to refer to the country as a whole, but people are often confused about the difference between England/Britain/Great Britain/The United Kingdom and end up (wrongly) using these terms interchangeably.
Mercator ruined me on this one. Had 7 left and was just spamming different spellings of the Russian Arctic islands instead! Looking at that horrible projection, you’d never guess that Sri Lanka etc were bigger than Severny and Yuzhny
Why no Afro-Eurasia? Why don't you accept "There be cold" for the Arctic Islands? I think you should include "Antilles" because if you add up all the land they're pretty big.
New Guinea is a purely Oceanic island, so it shouldn't be listed as Asia / Oceania. It belongs partly to an Asian country (Indonesia), but that doesn't make it a partly Asian island, just how Hawaii is Oceanic even though it belongs to the United States.
And by the way, most people living in Sumatra also do not have intention to form their own country, with the exception of those living in Aceh, I would say (It's now still kind of unclear regarding this issue, but there haven't been any separatist movements there lately).
Of course it's also part of the name of the country Papua New Guinea and of a province in Indonesia, and is incorporated in a bunch of historical and current place-names there. But I think accepting "Papua" would be a reasonable thing to do (but not PNG).
I think quizmaster usually doesnt answer the extremely dumb questions ( anymore) the ones that get asked over and over. (england, greenland, russia, cyprus etc). But yea still must take an awfull time to sift through all the requests... let alone replying.
31,285 km²
B)
1. Eurasia, AKA the megacontinent, which has two subcontinental peninsulas: Europe and South Asia
2. Africa
3. Antarctica
4. North America
5. South America
Australia is not an island but a dwarf continent. Oceania is a continentoidal region. Cyprus is part of Eurasia.
Hokkaido! this is easy
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(stares blankly)
oh, crap