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Islands in History - Statistics
General Stats
- This quiz has been taken 38,433 times
- The average score is 15 of 20
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Ruled by Fidel Castro for more than 50 years | Cuba | 99%
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| Struck by a potato blight in the 1840s | Ireland | 94%
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| Before the 1500s, it was possible to walk to this island from India | Sri Lanka | 91%
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| Turkey invaded this island in 1974 and today controls about 40% of its land | Cyprus | 90%
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| Inhabitants built large stone faces known as "moai" | Easter Island | 86%
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| Where Chiang Kai-shek and his army fled to in 1949 | Taiwan | 85%
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| Hadrian's Wall divided it in half in the 2nd century AD | Great Britain | 84%
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| Mediterranean island ruled by the Knights Hospitaller from 1530–1798 | Malta | 84%
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| "Inescapable" prison island where Al Capone spent some time | Alcatraz | 82%
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| Home to the Minoan civilization | Crete | 81%
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| Where Rastafarian religion got its start in the 1930s | Jamaica | 81%
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| This island's "Cosa Nostra" crime syndicate evolved from private security forces in the 19th century | Sicily | 77%
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| As a British colony, it was known as Van Diemen's Land | Tasmania | 73%
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| This island's Colossus was a 33 meter high statue of the god Helios | Rhodes | 71%
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| The western half of this island was ruled by "Papa Doc" and "Baby Doc" Duvalier | Hispaniola | 62%
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| Home to the world's oldest Parliament, the Althing | Iceland | 62%
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| Dutch settlers bought this island from Native Americans for goods worth 60 guilders (about $1000 in today's money) | Manhattan | 58%
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| Remote island in the middle of the Atlantic where Napoleon died in 1821 | Saint Helena | 58%
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| In 1819, Stamford Raffles established a British colony on this strategic site near the Strait of Malacca | Singapore | 53%
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| A weapons ban contributed to the development of karate on this island | Okinawa | 39%
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