Can you name the countries with jurisdiction over each of these islands?

Island(s)	Country
Guam
Faeroe Islands
Aruba
Diego Garcia
Easter Island
Norfolk Island
Iwo Jima
The Azores
Socotra
Canary Islands
Prince Edward Islands (Indian Ocean)
Baffin Island
Cozumel
Sardinia
Corfu

Island(s)	Country
Andaman Islands
Franz Josef Land
Gotland
Sulawesi
Chatham Island
Luzon
Saipan
Guadeloupe
South Sandwich Islands
Trindade and Martim Vaz
Barbuda
Phuket
Galapagos Islands
Svalbard
New Caledonia

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Island Possessions Quiz

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Created by: Booger -
Contributed: December 7th, 2009
Published: December 8th, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 55,190

Tags: Country Quizzes, possession, jurisdiction, island

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	nerdo:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:19 GMT	13 points
	Aruba, Jamaica..... the Beach Boys have steered me wrong.

	rockhopperlad:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:19 GMT	36 points
	A lot of people missed Barbuda. Perhaps they thought it was owned by Antigua.

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	wilsonhubbell:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:24 GMT	63 points
	i don't know any of these! aw, Phuket.

	PumpkinBomb:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:25 GMT	58 points
	Raise your hand if you were sure Franz Josef land belonged to either Austria or Hungary.

	notamotua:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:25 GMT	6 points
	Great quiz, but I just have to nitpick (spoilers) While the Philippines does have jurisdiction over Luzon, it's not an auxiliary island like say Guam, the Canary Islands, or Cozumel. The capital of the Philippines and pretty much the whole central government is in Luzon, which is I'd say about the size of whole state of Florida. So I don't think it really belongs on this quiz. That aside, it really was a fun quiz.

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	greebles:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:28 GMT	14 points
	Great quiz! Quite a lot of these islands are deceptively named language-wise!

	HolgerDanske:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:35 GMT	4 points
	I agree with notamotua, a better island for the Philippines would Mindanao or something like that

Rhys:

Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:39 GMT

10 points

Surprised how few people knew the Galapagos and Macau answers. Good quiz, enjoyed it.

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	biondelliot:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 04:59 GMT	-1 points
	i was terrible at this!

	caramba:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 05:03 GMT	4 points
	I like the island quizzes! Didn't have to double up a couple of countries, though! Guess who owns Heligoland? Isle of Pines? Penang? Oh, I know - the sequel!

	Chromatos:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 05:19 GMT	6 points
	I would suggest changing it to "Chatham Islands" plural.

	adamnvillani:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 05:33 GMT	2 points
	I had to make about a dozen guesses on the Prince Edward Islands before I got them right.

	NoVan:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 05:46 GMT	14 points
	Looking forward to the first nationalist seeking inclusion of the Falklands.

	BluntDiplomat:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 06:32 GMT	2 points
	@caramba: I definitely agree - a sequel to this quiz would be most blissful. :) Thanks Booger for another exceptionally conceived quiz.

	BamaRainbow:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 06:43 GMT	10 points
	@notomotua: Unless the quiz changed its title, the use of Luzon is perfectly acceptable, since the Philippines has "jurisdiction" over that island in the very same fashion that the US has "jurisdiction" of the Florida Keys. Just because Luzon is where the capital is located doesn't invalidate the definition of "jurisdiction." If you think about it like this, the island of Great Britain is under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom every bit as much as the Inner and Outer Hebrides, the Shetland Island, the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands; the fact that the national capital is located on that particular island doesn't alter the jurisdiction aspect. @HolgerDanske: Why would Mindinao be better than Luzon? Both islands are part of the Republic of the Philippines (just as Sulawesi is part of Indonesia).

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	Rzeziol:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 10:08 GMT	0 points
	Got only 10, but was in 5,9% that got Socotra.

	abanazerb:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 10:17 GMT	14 points
	Excellent quiz... although having to put in "Antigua and Barbuda" for who owns Barbuda... come on!

	kingstony:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 11:02 GMT	7 points
	I love these geography quizzes.

	Ribhump:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 11:26 GMT	9 points
	whoops, somehow i came to the assumption you wouldn't have a country appear more than once (as this was the case with the ones i knew), scuppered that attempt...:(

	Scuba_Steve:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 12:28 GMT	26 points
	anyone else find themseelves guessing UK for every single island they didn'y know the answer to?

	juusosieni:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 12:59 GMT	-1 points
	I found.. Easter Island is owned by Chile?

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	Onno:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 14:43 GMT	0 points
	I'm surprised by the % guessed numbers. It really depends on where you're from I guess. I got Cozumel and Iwo Jima by random guess, but I have known the Andaman Islands, Prince Edward Islands and Socotra for a long time.

	JC3:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 14:56 GMT	-3 points
	How about "Falklands" Answer "UK" Followed by "Malvinas" Answer "Call them what you like their still ours!"

	icing:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 15:04 GMT	-3 points
	Another great one, Booger! (that just doesn't sound right ...) I do think, though, that the Barbuda question was a little off base. How many "island nation" quizzes have we all taken on sporcle that drill Antigua and Barbuda into our heads? The rest of this quiz made me think about "colonial powers" and which countries used to "own" which islands. Therefore, when Barbuda showed up, I was still trying to think of a colonizer. Also, sorry all you politically correct folks out there, but I find it sadly and disturbingly ironic that so many U.S. Marines died for the sake of Iwo Jima, and it ended up in Japanese hands anyway.

	Stairway:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 15:13 GMT	1 point
	Bermuda would be a nice addition.

	johnkilantrose:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 15:51 GMT	12 points
	How good are the sandwiches on the South Sandwich Islands?

	orangehawk42:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 17:06 GMT	2 points
	why is antigua and barbuda on here? its part of its own country. seems confusing...

	lewistpb:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 17:07 GMT	5 points
	I didn't know there was another Prince Edward Island! Well, we had the name first.

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	newenglander:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:13 GMT	3 points
	i was shocked by the low percents of people guessing them for many of these islands

	davidr:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:41 GMT	9 points
	@notamotua: Sorry but I just don't understand why you think that Barbuda and Luzon don't belong in a quiz of `Which country is this island in?' They're both islands; they're both parts of countries.

	kidcanada:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 20:46 GMT	-1 points
	Anyone in their early 20s who doesn't visit the Pink Palace in Corfu is seriously missing out on some good old fashioned hedonism.

	fred_D_pancakes:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 21:23 GMT	1 point
	for the record my comment was directed towards one ignorant commenter who has since gotten his comment deleted, not the creator