Islands 2 by FlaxmanR

Champion(s):

SirolaD


Runner(s)-Up:

thorsleyd


Quiz Description

The sequel to my Islands quiz from last year's LLamadan, for this year's LLabor Day hiatus. Warning: I think it's tougher than the original.

Full Results:

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1 SirolaD 504 98 15
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2 thorsleyd 470 94 15
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3 PerryS 454 91 15
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4 grimesr 443 87 15
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5 WeikleB 408 84 15
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6 Dynomutt 386 81 00
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7 FryedBetaKappa 380 77 00
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8 Vicun-YAH 343 74 15
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9 EtebariM 332 70 15
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10 CooperJ 310 67 15
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11 creedofhubris 308 63 00
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12 JordanG 302 60 00
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13 MeyerS 296 56 00
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14 RalliP 280 53 15
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15 Mollmw 267 50 00
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18 MercureT 234 39 15
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19 RichmondJ 201 36 00
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20 GrahamJ 189 32 15
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21 JohnD 178 29 00
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22 minarik15 174 25 00
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24 GoodmanDL 128 18 00
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26 ConnorA 57 10 00
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Questions:

One the capital of an overseas region of France and one the capital of a sovereign nation, what two Caribbean cities are separated by just 112 miles and one hyphen?

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Basseterre, Saint Kitts and Nevis / Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe

Home to only around 5,000 people, what island has seen tens of thousands of African migrants arrive on its shores in the last decade-plus, many smuggled across by traffickers taking advantage of the island’s location as the closest part of the European Union to Libya?

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Lampedusa

On what island would you find this (slightly redacted) sign?

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Isle of Man

People living in northern Hokkaido might actually be able to see Russia from their houses, as the southernmost islands in a disputed chain lie just a few miles offshore. Name the Russian-controlled island chain stretching between Hokkaido and Kamchatka, the southern islands of which Japan claims as its “Northern Territories.”

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Kuril Islands

He almost certainly never set foot on the island that was eventually renamed for him; the island on which he lived for several years was, however, renamed after the literary character he is believed to have inspired. Name this Scottish sailor who spent more than four years, from 1704 to 1709, alone on the now-Chilean island known, until 1966, as Más a Tierra.

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Alexander Selkirk

Three related languages, often known by a single name, are still spoken by half a million people on a group of islands in the North Sea usually referred to by the same name. What is this language group, containing the closest living linguistic relatives to the Anglic languages of English and Scots?

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Frisian

A February 25, 2007 match of five-a-side football won Inis Mor the right to associate itself with a fictional island, while its smaller neighbor Inis Oirr lost out. The name of what fictional island, home to an eponymous parish house, was at stake in this match?

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Craggy Island

The conifer pictured here, Araucaria heterophylla, is more commonly known by what name based on the island to which it is endemic?

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Norfolk Island Pine

In 2010, a particular North American island group was officially renamed Haida Gwaii after the native people. Before that, the islands were named after what historical figure?

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Queen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Somewhat blandly known as the British Indian Ocean Territory since 1965, the islands of what archipelago (of which Diego Garcia is the largest) have been used almost exclusively for military purposes since the native population was forcibly removed in the late 1960s and early 1970s?

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Chagos Archipelago

These glyphs, which may have been inscribed with obsidian or shark teeth, are part of what is believed to be a writing system, though it has yet to be successfully deciphered. Give the standard name for this system of writing, taken from a word meaning “to recite” or “to chant” in the language supposedly being written.

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Rongorongo

Scotsman Nick Hancock spent 45 days on this island in 2014, impressive considering it is uninhabited and only about 85,000 square feet in area. Nevertheless, multiple countries are interested in claiming it in the hope of securing rights to the surrounding waters. What is this isolated skerry, generally assigned to the UK but also variously claimed by Ireland, Iceland, and Denmark?

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Rockall