Which European Island?

Can you name the European island described in each clue?

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Hint	Island
Largest island in the Mediterranean	Sicily
Where Napoleon was born in 1769	Corsica
Island to which Napoleon was exiled in 1814 before escaping	Elba
Island nation where roads are sometimes diverted to avoid disturbing elves	Iceland
Ancient tablets from this island written in Linear B have been deciphered. Tablets in Linear A have not.	Crete
Island just off Naples which a type of pant is named for	Capri
Island in the Seine where Notre-Dame can be found	Île de la Cité
England's largest island – in 1970 an estimated 600,000 people flocked there to see Jimi Hendrix perform	Isle of Wight
British crown dependency located halfway between Great Britain and Ireland	Isle of Man
For 200 years, the Knights Hospitaller ruled this Greek island just off the coast of Turkey	Rhodes
Cagliari and Olbia are its two largest cities	Sardinia
Island nation which is the only European country to speak a Semitic language	Malta
Appropriately, this island is about 5 times larger than its neighbor Menorca	Mallorca
Greek island, swarming with tourists, which was partially destroyed by a massive volcanic eruption around 1600 B.C.	Santorini
Croatia's most populous island, its name has 3 letters but no vowels	Krk
Odysseus was the king of this Greek island	Ithaca
Copenhagen sits on many islands, the largest of which is ...	Zealand
A U.S. state is named after this island in the English Channel	Jersey
The largest of Scotland's Inner Hebrides, the flag of this island incorporates a Viking ship and a Celtic cross	Isle of Skye
The largest island in the Baltic Sea, it is part of Sweden	Gotland

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25 Comments

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Level ∞

Oct 19, 2023

Pictured: Flag of the Isle of Man.

Remarkably, the flag of Sicily also features three legs in the same arrangement.

Level 81

Oct 19, 2023

Good quiz, didn't do very well though. Can't believe I tried Cyprus for the fourth question.

Level 57

Dec 12, 2023

I did the exact same thing.

+26

Level 92

Oct 19, 2023

This seems like it should be yellow boxed or people will just exhaust the list of European islands they know without even reading the hints.

Level 50

Oct 20, 2023

Agreed on this one, would make it play a lot harder but would be a positive.

Level 57

Dec 13, 2023

Would not have gotten Crete without it but I agree :)

Level 95

Oct 19, 2023

Great quiz, thank you.

Level 86

Oct 19, 2023

Wight is England's second largest island ...

Level ∞

Oct 19, 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_islands_of_England

Level 80

Oct 19, 2023

I think Djilas' point is that England's largest island is Britain. Of course, England being only a part of Britain makes this statement somewhat problematic, but the quoted source does mention Britain and its contextual "mainland" status as the reason for its absence from the list.

Level 74

Oct 24, 2023

I think it's pretty clear that Great Britain is the UK's largest island, not England's.

Level 65

Feb 27, 2026

It's both. It's an island, and even if we just take England's part of it, it's still much larger than any other island England owns

Level 83

Oct 20, 2023

ohhhh, *pant*. I was reading *plant* and was incredibly confused when the answer appeared

Level 68

Nov 15, 2023

Me too

Level 70

Dec 12, 2023

i read it as "paint"

Level 80

Feb 27, 2026

I did the same

Level 88

Oct 23, 2023

The Isle of Wight question wasn't just to see Hendrix. It was a multi-day festival, with a number of star musicians/groups performing.

Level 74

Oct 24, 2023

The three legs symbol is a common variant of the triskelion, an old three-pronged spiral design found especially in Celtic areas. No idea why Sicily (and the Naples coat of arms as well BTW) feature it though.

Level 82

Oct 30, 2023

Fun quiz. One quibble: just as Cyprus is (rightly) considered by Jetpunk to be Asian, owing to its position, should the same not apply to Rhodes?

Level 80

Oct 31, 2023

The entire notion of a border between Europe and Asia is cultural much more than it is geographical. For that reason, unless there's a very clear geographical feature that has to take priority, it makes sense to follow country borders. Past the Dardanelles, there's basically no border-like geographical feature at all. Placing Cyprus in geographical Asia is ultimately arbitrary but at least it doesn't defy logic, splitting Greece between the two continents is just pretty absurd.

Level 71

Feb 27, 2026

How is it absurd? Rhodes (along with Samos, Lesbos etc) are on the Asian continental shelf. If the water level sinks a bit, they'd be contiguous with Turkey while having still deep water between themselves and the Greek mainland.

Level 61

Feb 27, 2026

Yes - continents are fundamentally geological, not political. Even if the notion that they are separate continents has cultural roots, the fact that it is nonetheless about topography means that it's still a fundamentally geological question. What's absurd is ignoring geology for the sake of national borders, which are the most arbitrary part of the calculation.

Level 56

Oct 23, 2024

all these islands and still no waddeneilanden

Level 61

Mar 5, 2026

Woohoo, remembered the last one with 2 seconds left

Level 34

Apr 4, 2026

Sassari is by far the second-largest city in Sardinia, not Olbia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinia)

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