How it works
These island trivia questions and answers run in four rounds: how islands are made, life on islands, the voyagers, archipelagos and tropical islands of the Pacific, and Greenland, the largest island of all.
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Trivia questions about tropical islands
The third round sails the warm Pacific: the Polynesians who reached Fiji, Samoa, Tahiti and Easter Island, the settling of New Zealand, and Guam under Spain. Life on islands adds rafting iguanas, island gigantism and Darwin's year in the Galápagos.
A cold round to finish
Greenland asks Nuuk, Hans Island, the Treaty of Kiel and Gunnbjørn Fjeld. Tap a choice to check it; the reason shows with the answer. Population counts and present-day politics are left out.
Questions and answers
What are some easy island trivia questions?
What is the capital of Greenland? Who were the first people to colonize distant oceanic islands? What is the study of island culture called? The answers are Nuuk, the Polynesians and island studies.
Which islands are in the pack?
Hawaii, Tahiti, Fiji, Samoa, Easter Island, New Zealand, Guam, Anguilla, the Galápagos and Greenland, among others, with the archipelagos of Finland and Scotland.
How were the answers checked?
Each was read on October 3, 2026 in the English Wikipedia article Island, Archipelago or Greenland, linked under the question. That Greenland is the largest island is not asked, because other packs of this site ask it.