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quiz time? Name some of the biggest islands in the world. I'll say what rank they are. -- nm

Posted by Beryllium (aka grayman) Jul 29 '17, 10:53

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Has no one said Long Island yet? Just to see where it is on the list. -- (edited) - con_carne Jul 29, 11:56 2
- Right?? What took so long. Answer: #149 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:58 1
  - Sweet. Now what ranking is it when we include Brooklyn and Queens :) -- nm - con_carne Jul 29, 12:07
Sumatra, Sulawesi, Mindanao, Davao, Great Brtain -- nm - Roger More Jul 29, 11:27 6
- #6 (not counting the giant rat), #11, #19, n/a (not an island?), #9 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:44 3
  - Did you mean a different name than Davao? Because you're in the proximity of one. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 12:00 2
    - Oh, I got mixed up. Luzon. -- nm - Roger More Jul 29, 12:19 1
      - #15 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 12:28
- Sakhalin -- nm - Roger More Jul 29, 11:28 1
  - #23 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:46
Prince Edward Island? -- nm - mara Jul 29, 11:14 3
- #104 (and yet, it gets to be a province and Vancouver Island doesn't. Go figure.) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:16 2
  - for vast and interesting historical reasons! - Reagen Jul 29, 11:20 1
    - Hey, they got a tv show about them, I guess. The reasons are sort of interesting. - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:21
Banks, Prince of Wales, Southampton - Reagen Jul 29, 11:12 1
- #24, #40, #34 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:15
Sri Lanka -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:10 1
- #25 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:11
Baffin, Ellesmere, Victoria, Vancouver, Newfoundland -- nm* - Reagen Jul 29, 11:08 1
- #5, #10 (Ellesmere), #8, #43, #16 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:11
New Guinea -- nm - Marlowe Jul 29, 11:06 1
- #2 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:08
Can you tell me where (if at all) Singapore is on this list? That will let me calibrate what size we're talking about here. -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:01 4
- Singapore is under 300 square miles, the list bottoms out at 390. -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:07 1
  - Thanks! -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:08
- Doesn't Greenland being #1 calibrate it? -- nm - mara Jul 29, 11:06 1
  - No? It tells me what the biggest is. It doesn't give me an idea of what's too small to be on the list. -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:06
Java -- nm - Dano Jul 29, 11:01 1
- #13 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:03
Taiwan? -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 11:00 1
- #38 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:03
The two islands that make up New Zealand, whatever they are called. -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:59 2
- South #12, North #14 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:02 1
  - Well that's not very original! -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 11:04
Hispaniola? -- nm - Marlowe Jul 29, 10:59 1
- #22 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:00
Cuba? -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 10:59 1
- #17 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:01
Honshu (I think that's the main island of Japan?) -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:58 1
- #7 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 11:00
Borneo? -- nm - Marlowe Jul 29, 10:58 1
- #3 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:59
Ireland -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:56 1
- #20 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:57
Madagascar -- nm - ty97 Jul 29, 10:56 1
- #4 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:57
Hawaii? - ty97 Jul 29, 10:56 1
- #75 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:56
Australia -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 10:54 5
- Think smaller ... :) -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:55 4
  - Greenland -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 10:55 3
    - Great Britain. -- nm - Krusty Jul 29, 10:56 1
      - #9 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:56
    - #1 -- nm - Beryllium Jul 29, 10:56

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