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Islands A-Z

For each letter A-Z, name the island.
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First submittedSeptember 10, 2013
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Clue
Island
A
Prison island in San Francisco Bay
Alcatraz
B
Denpasar is its capital
Bali
C
Biggest in the Caribbean
Cuba
D
Roseau is the capital of this
Caribbean nation
Dominica
E
Able was Napoleon ere he saw it
Elba
F
Indonesian island. Its name
means "flowers" in Portuguese
Flores
G
World's biggest island
Greenland
H
Main island of Japan
Honshu
I
The Emerald Isle
Ireland
J
World's most populous island
Java
K
Island in the Florida Keys where
Hemingway sojourned
Key West
L
Main island of the Philippines
Luzon
M
One of the five boroughs of NYC
Manhattan
N
One of New Zealand's
two main islands
North Island
O
Where Honolulu is situated
Oahu
P
Someday the 51st U.S. state?
Puerto Rico
Q
Iran's largest island
Qeshm
R
Greek island once home to a Colossus
Rhodes
S
Italian island - biggest in
the Mediterranean
Sicily
T
Island country coveted by China
Taiwan
U
Samoa's most populous island
Upolu
V
Biggest island in British Columbia
Vancouver
W
Biggest in the English Channel
Wight
X
 
 
Y
Island in San Francisco Bay
whose name means "good herb"
Yerba Buena
Z
Island off the coast of Tanzania
Zanzibar
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101 Recent Comments
OldSailor
+1
Level 92
Oct 21, 2013
Q - Qatar. Island nation on the southern end of the Persian Gulf
PjotrL
+4
Level 78
Nov 1, 2020
Qatar is connected to Saudiarabia, not an island. Bahrain would be an island though (although some argue the Causeway connection is making it an peninsula)
JerseyzFinest
+3
Level 60
Oct 21, 2013
You should accept White for Wight
ruudsje
+43
Level 68
Dec 15, 2015
You're joking wight?
MarcusStone
+1
Level 20
Dec 16, 2015
Oh I get it, ha ha.
BlackLab
+1
Level 66
Sep 22, 2017
Not unless it's too dim
ander217
+3
Level 73
Feb 15, 2015
I read Tanzania as Tasmania and couldn't figure any answer which would work. I even thought of Zanzibar, then discarded it because it was in Africa. Face-smack.
bowlwoman
+2
Level 67
Dec 15, 2015
Yeah, I first read it as Tasmania too. Apples and trees? :)
drayen
+7
Level 72
Oct 6, 2015
Q = Qeshm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qeshm. Iran's largest island. 576 square miles with over 100,000 inhabitants, shouldn't be an unknown to everyone.
Thorvald
+2
Level 73
Dec 15, 2015
I know it thanks to Europa Universalis II ;)
xyzzy
+3
Level 72
Dec 15, 2015
Puerto Rico (the territory) is a chain of islands. The main island is called Puerto Rico.
Tecumseh94
+2
Level 47
Dec 15, 2015
Quadra Island! But than probably not too many people would know it.
tshalla
+1
Level 78
Jan 8, 2018
Humpbacks and hippies.
mikemosz
+2
Level 82
Dec 15, 2015
These are archipelagos, not islands, but the Queen Charlotte and Queen Elizabeth Islands in Canada are pretty famous
Dontforget
+1
Level 76
Dec 10, 2025
Queen Charlottes would be under H for Haida Gwaii now lol
Roger77024
+2
Level 56
Dec 15, 2015
For Y, how about Yuzhny (southern island of Novaya Zemlya archipelago) or Yell (a noisy Shetland island)?
xxz
+2
Level 21
Dec 14, 2019
yerba buena is more well known
Asterlan
+3
Level 57
Oct 20, 2020
I think yuzhny would be more well known if spelling was lenient.
Elan
+1
Level 66
Dec 15, 2015
Very creative quiz idea.
Cyclonus
+2
Level 88
Dec 15, 2015
There are islands for every missing letter in the Zhoushan prefecture in China, depending on how obscure you want to get...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhoushan#Geography

bocoker
+5
Level 83
Dec 15, 2015
The "Z" was pretty easy, but misleading since Zanzibar is part of Tanzania, hence not "off the coast." (OK, so this would sound awkward, but perhaps "group of islands forming part of Tanzania"?)
IsleAuHaulte
+1
Level 92
Jul 8, 2018
Catalina is an island off the coast of California, of which it is an integral part. Correct?
Ian1979
+1
Level 71
Dec 17, 2015
This was a fun quiz, and some of the questions were certainly challenging. The thing I moat liked about it, though, was the way the interesting facts were inserted into the questions so that - regardless of whether you knew the answer or not - you felt as if you were learning interesting new facts as I went along. Thanks.
AlfieJMD
+2
Level 39
Dec 23, 2015
Never even heard of Alcatraz and it's the most guessed, and the Isle of wight was the the first one I guessed, and its only 37% guessed!

Because I'm British no doubt :/

Malbaby
+2
Level 70
Nov 20, 2016
It is wonderful to know that there are people in the Western World who have never heard of Alcatraz.
Shade9099
+2
Level 68
Nov 20, 2018
Uh.... he's British
Sifhraven
+9
Level 76
May 25, 2019
since when is british not the western world... really???
xxz
+1
Level 21
Dec 14, 2019
wth
Ekzo
+1
Level 48
Oct 4, 2016
Y: Yakushima - Biggest of the Osumi islands.

Great quiz by the way!

xxz
+2
Level 21
Dec 14, 2019
yerba buena is more well known
fortoj
+1
Level 68
Oct 26, 2016
Y: Yell, In the Shetland isles above scotland
xxz
+1
Level 21
Dec 14, 2019
yerba buena is more well known
Sifhraven
+3
Level 76
Jan 17, 2020
To you apparently since you are spamming the same comment over and over and over. I doubt the accuracy of it though.. More well known to americans perhaps, but to the rest of the world? Dont think so.
TurkeyCookTime
+2
Level 85
Feb 29, 2020
I'm an American and I haven't even heard of it before this quiz. I feel like Yuzhny would be more well known
LyRiKH
+1
Level 51
Nov 20, 2016
2.18 left
Zefyrinus
+4
Level 74
May 8, 2017
X: Mandarin name for Hong Kong - Xiang Gang
divantilya
+1
Level 36
Aug 10, 2017
When I was in school (and before all this silly political correctness became the vogue in a misguided attempt not to offend anyone and which succeeds in offending virtually everyone) there were five continents America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
sillie
+8
Level 75
Jan 8, 2018
We had 7. North America, South America, Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and ANTARCTICA.
Dblingah
+6
Level 79
Oct 3, 2018
I'm so sick of pc culture always talking about the inclusion of Antarctica and that there's "more than one America" !!!
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
May 25, 2019
I really cant remember if I learned north and south america, well we learned them seperatly, but cant remember if they were referred to as one or two continents, but pretty sure were learned that antartica was one. And 7 continents rings a bell..
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
May 25, 2019
btw I think for a while when i was 9 or something I might ve thought russia was a continent, cause noone had clearly told me where it belonged to, asia europe or neither. I guess decades later people still dont know haha.
johnnyrdnck
+1
Level 48
May 15, 2020
in hispanic laguages there are 5/6, in all the other languages there are 7. it differs by culture. but you can definetly say that antarctica is a continental landmass, given that its bigger than australia
tzhg
+4
Level 58
Aug 7, 2020
"Continents" are arbitrary and have no objective definition. They're a matter of convention, and it's not even like everyone agrees on the same convention. Some people were taught that there are 7 continents while I was taught that there are only 5 (North America and South America being counted as one, and Antarctica not being counted at all). Some people were taught that Australia is a continent, while I was taught that it is an island part of a continent called Oceania. There's no right or wrong, just different conventions.
tzhg
+4
Level 58
Aug 7, 2020
Also, the definition of continents has nothing to do with political correctness, not sure why you brought that up. And political correctness isn't a recent thing. It always existed, even though the things that are considered politically correct weren't necessarily the same as today.
WhiskyPedia
+1
Level 43
Jul 25, 2024
The quiz is in english and they mostly speak cantonese in hong kong this doesn't make sense
azhfandak
+1
Level 78
Sep 21, 2017
you can add Qeshm island as the largest Iranian island and also the largest in the Persian gulf. it has an area about 1400 km2 or over two times of Bahrain.
mf3
+3
Level 90
Jan 8, 2018
You should also accept Qushm. There is no specific vowel between the ق ("q") and the ش ("sh"); by definition, any vowel would work in the transliteration (so e.g. Qishm would also work). I've seen it all 3 ways.
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 8, 2018
Okay
TurkeyCookTime
+1
Level 85
Feb 13, 2020
If that's true would Qshm also work?
stevediverse
+2
Level 86
Jan 8, 2018
Xiushan is an island in China, off the shore SE of Shanghai. It's maybe 8 sq mi / 20 sq km.
WolfCam
+2
Level 67
Jan 8, 2018
P and Q are out of Order
Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jan 9, 2018
Fixed
ReyFer
+2
Level 67
Jan 9, 2018
you missed an opportunity to include the ABC islands
Willfm24
+1
Level 85
Mar 18, 2018
Xiushan of China?
MarcoH
+1
Level 63
Nov 20, 2018
X - Xianggang - chinese name for Hong Kong
Kazinator16
+2
Level 38
Nov 20, 2018
Australia is bigger than Greenland
xxz
+1
Level 21
Dec 14, 2019
yeah but it is not an island, it's a continent
tzhg
+1
Level 58
Aug 7, 2020
Depends on who you ask.
joez
+14
Level 77
Nov 20, 2018
Xiamen, formerly known as Amoy.
PjotrL
+9
Level 78
Nov 20, 2018
X = Xiamen: totally agree. A good addition and a relatively well known place, although not many will realize it's an island (like Abu Dhabi)
barmanitan
+1
Level 84
Mar 23, 2020
Or Mumbai, or Vancouver, or Montreal were other ones I didn't know were islands
Loyal
+2
Level 67
Nov 20, 2018
so weird seeing it called just "North Island"

In almost every context you'd say "the North Island".

It's kinda sad we don't use the cooler sounding Maori names, instead literally just calling them North and South.

Sifhraven
+3
Level 76
May 25, 2019
I get what you mean, but many places names originally are simple and not really a name, like place by the sea, or tree area or woodland etc. ( atleast in europe, not sure about america, besides that they have many place names that allready previously excisted). Places have mainly been named after their surroundings/specefic feature (barren or green) their location in relation to other places, and groups of people known for the area.
jtjerue
+2
Level 55
Nov 24, 2018
Don't know where I got Yerba Buena from.
xxz
+1
Level 21
Dec 14, 2019
I got it from watchdogs 2
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Sep 14, 2023
I got it from the hint.
SAFETYFIIIRST
+6
Level 47
Nov 29, 2018
Why is there no X?

You could have Xiamen Island in China.

divantilya
+2
Level 36
Apr 19, 2019
Yerba (or Hierba) is translated from Spanish into English as Grass, not herb.
barmanitan
+2
Level 84
Mar 23, 2020
Google Translate (the most notoriously reliable translator on the web) gives grass first for hierba, then herb, and for yerba only gives herb.
Yeeee123
+1
Level 40
May 28, 2019
There's an island called Xiushan in China.
JackintheBox
+1
Level 82
Nov 5, 2019
I didn't know the Isle of Wight was in the English Channel
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 79
Feb 13, 2020
Got 17. I'm sure I tried flores and similar words like several times.
Geo1296
+2
Level 46
Aug 27, 2020
I haven't heard of like half of the islands but i still got a good score
Geo1296
+1
Level 46
Aug 27, 2020
Great quiz though
sikh
+1
Level 27
Dec 14, 2020
gg
Yeoryios
+2
Level 71
Jan 4, 2021
Shouldn't it be the island off the coast of Tanganika? Tanzania is Tanganika and Zanzibar combined.
plattitude
+3
Level 94
Mar 23, 2021
And yet, if you go to the coast of Tanzania, it is still the island you'll find.
IlikeLuigi
+2
Level 73
May 30, 2021
Isn't it called ''the Isle of Wight'' ?
EvanAviator
+1
Level 61
Dec 27, 2021
yes... it is an island
Noahspott
+2
Level 36
Aug 4, 2021
Surprised they didnt go with Madagascar for M
Cyclonus
+1
Level 88
Sep 24, 2021
X - Xiushan - Island with a theme park in the Chinese city of Zhoushan.

It's difficult, but perhaps no more so than Qeshm or Upolu...

stromae
+1
Level 70
Dec 2, 2021
I think you should change the 'A' question so it's not San Francisco centric lmao. There are many 'A' islands
Jeanettemartin
+1
Level 58
Mar 20, 2022
i just wanted to comment comment number 104....
sussybakas123
+2
Level 18
Apr 4, 2022
Because the earth is made of 70% water, it basically means whatever place in the world that is land it is an island
ezzzz
+1
Level 44
Jul 3, 2022
X could be Xiamen Island? Probably wouldn't be totally unknown since its in the center of a big city.
abracadabrant
+1
Level 54
Jan 30, 2023
Xiamen island should definitely be added. it's one of the biggest cities in China
MfundoNkambule
+1
Level 35
Mar 29, 2023
Add UK

UK: Island

England,Scotland,Ireland,N.Ireland: Countries

goofycritter
+1
Level 29
Mar 29, 2023
Xiamen island
blahblahblahblak
+1
Level 27
May 8, 2023
What about Xiamen island? Sure, it is connected by bridges and stuff but it is not connected with any other land so it should be added.
Wincent
+3
Level 51
Jul 10, 2023
I know Taiwan is considered as a country on this website because this is US centric. But I feel the description "island country coveted by China" is too offensive to Chinese people.
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Sep 14, 2023
I get your second sentence. But Taiwan is not considered a country because the website is US centric—the US doesn't even officially recognize Taiwan. It's because it has all of the elements of a country besides recognition—government, culture, etc.
BettyToo
+1
Level 39
Mar 19, 2026
agree. 'coveted' comes off as ignorant of the history involved; you could nod to that by saying 'once a Portuguese colony known as Formosa; since 1949, aka Republic of China.
enis2016
+2
Level 16
Feb 10, 2024
i cheated
LadyBella
+2
Level 46
Mar 5, 2024
Tried putting Kokomo for the island in the Florida Keys!
GlassMonkeyOLD
+1
Level 69
Aug 13, 2024
That's where you wanna go, to get away from it all...
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 64
May 25, 2025
How come Rhodes is an island but Rhode Island isn't?
BettyToo
+1
Level 39
Mar 19, 2026
great question.
Joheemah
+1
Level 65
Oct 29, 2025
I really tried yerbo bueno instead lol.
Sigmapatipum
+1
Level 26
Nov 18, 2025
easy
imveerysilly
+1
Level 37
Dec 6, 2025
missed wight island, thought it was jersey or guernsey due to 'technicality'
BettyToo
+1
Level 39
Mar 19, 2026
overall, an interesting quiz.
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