Rotating Quiz #293 - Islands

[Calvin]

Hello Punters

I present RQ293 for your edification and enjoyment. Below is a list of the 16 most inhabited (i.e. largest human population) islands in the world, along with their population and a clue as to their location. Just name the island.

Note that Australia is a continent, so NOT among the answers.

1 141,370,000  Indonesia
2 104,000,000 Northern hemisphere
3 62,600,000 Northern hemisphere
4 53,336,134  Philippines
5 50,180,000  Indonesia
6 25,571,000 Southern hemisphere
7 25,537,691  Philippines
8 23,461,708 Northern hemisphere
9 21,258,000 >1 country
10 21,203,000 Northern hemisphere
11 21,107,000 Caribbean
12 18,455,058  Indonesia
13 15,111,974  India
14 13,200,000  Japan
15 11,818,000 >1 country
16 11,167,325 Caribbean

Answers here please:

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16

Good luck!

cheers,
calvin

[Dan Blum]

Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Punters

> I present RQ293 for your edification and enjoyment. Below is a list of the 16 most inhabited (i.e. largest human population) islands in the world, along with their population and a clue as to their location. Just name the island.

> Note that Australia is a continent, so NOT among the answers.

> 1 141,370,000 ??Indonesia

> 2 104,000,000 Northern hemisphere
> 3 62,600,000 Northern hemisphere

> 4 53,336,134 ??Philippines
> 5 50,180,000 ??Indonesia
> 6 25,571,000 Southern hemisphere
> 7 25,537,691 ??Philippines

> 8 23,461,708 Northern hemisphere
> 9 21,258,000 >1 country
> 10 21,203,000 Northern hemisphere
> 11 21,107,000 Caribbean

> 12 18,455,058 ??Indonesia
> 13 15,111,974 ??India
> 14 13,200,000 ??Japan

> 15 11,818,000 >1 country
> 16 11,167,325 Caribbean

> Answers here please:

> 1

Java

> 2

Honshu

> 3

Britain

> 4

Luzon

> 5

Sulawesi

> 6

New Guinea

> 7

Luzon

> 8

Taiwan

> 9

Borneo

> 10

Shikoku

> 11

Cuba

> 12

Sulawesi

> 13

Sri Lanka

> 14

Hokkaido

> 15

Ireland

> 16

Jamaica

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[Mark Brader]

Calvin:

> 1 Sumatra
> 2 Honshu
> 3 Great Britain
> 4 Luzon
> 5 Java
> 6 Madagascar
> 7 Luzon
> 8 Sri Lanka
> 9 Borneo
> 10 Kyushu
> 11 Cuba
> 12 Java
> 13 Mumbai
> 14 Hokkaido
> 15 Hispaniola
> 16 Jamaica

I was sure Great Britain was around 40-50 million, but that's not
a possibility. It would be interesting to see where the most populous
islands of North America rank -- I presume they are Long Island and
Montreal Island, but both below 10 million.
--
Mark Brader, Toronto | "It is difficult to make predictions,
m...@vex.net | especially about the future." --Danish saying

[Dan Tilque]

> 1 Sumatra
> 2 Honshu
> 3 Great Britain
> 4 Luzon
> 5 Java
> 6 Madagascar

> 7 Mindanao

> 8 Sri Lanka
> 9 Borneo

> 10 Hong Kong
> 11 Hispanola
> 12
> 13
> 14
> 15 Timor
> 16 Cuba


--
Dan Tilque

[Peter Smyth]

> 1 Java
> 2 Hokkaido
> 3 Great Britain
> 4
> 5 Sumatra
> 6 Sri Lanka
> 7
> 8
> 9 New Guinea
> 10
> 11 Cuba
> 12
> 13
> 14 Honshu
> 15 Hispaniola
> 16 Jamaica

Peter Smyth

[Erland Sommarskog]

1 Java

2 Honshu
3 Great Britain
4 Luzon

5 Sumatra
6 Madagascar
7 Mindanao
8 Taiwan
9 Borneo
10 Ceylon
11 Cuba
12 Bali
13
14 Kyushu
15 Dominica
16 Jamaica

[Pete Gayde]

Calvin <334...@gmail.com> wrote in
news:0134f0cc-d318-4e80...@googlegroups.com:

> 1 Sumatra
> 2 Great Britain
> 3 Taiwan

> 4 Luzon
> 5 Java
> 6 Madagascar
> 7

> 8 Ireland
> 9 Hispaniola
> 10 Taiwan
> 11 Cuba
> 12

> 13 Sri Lanka
> 14 Hokkaido

> 15 Borneo
> 16 Puerto Rico
>
> Good luck!
>
> cheers,
> calvin
>

Pete Gayde

[Calvin]

> 1 Java
> 2 Honshu
> 3 [Great] Britain
> 4 Luzon
> 5 Sumatra
> 6 Madagascar
> 7 Mindanao
> 8 Taiwan
> 9 Borneo

> 10 Sri Lanka (I accepted Ceylon]
> 11 Hispaniola
> 12 Sulawesi
> 13 Salsette [I accepted Mumbai]
> 14 Kyushu
> 15 New Guinea - this is the only question that no-one got correct.
> 16 Cuba


Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 TOTAL TB RQ293
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 11 34 Erland S
0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 26 Dan Tilque
1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 7 25 Dan Blum
0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 23 Mark Brader
1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 11 Peter Smyth
1 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 13 Pete Gayde
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- ----------
4 4 5 5 2 4 2 2 4 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 38 40%


Congratulations Erland! You win hosting rights for RQ#294.

In retrospect I should hive given more clues as we went down the list and it gets harder to distinguish between places with only small differences in population.

Also it was a tough one to mark since correct answers were often given for the wrong question, so please let me know if there are any errors.

Thanks for playing.

cheers,
calvin

[Mark Brader]

"Calvin":

> Also it was a tough one to mark since correct answers were often given
> for the wrong question,

I was hoping for part marks for answers placed close to the right line.
Oh well.

> so please let me know if there are any errors.

Only one, on the first question, and it only affects 5th vs. 6th place.
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Toronto | that show up at the point of need exactly when they
m...@vex.net | need them, but..." --Michelle Eichelberger et al.

[Erland Sommarskog]

> Congratulations Erland! You win hosting rights for RQ#294.
>

Thanks! It was embarrassing that I confused the name of Hispaniola. As
it turned out, it did not matter, since the hint ">1 country" was
misleading.

I will try to have RQ 294 up tomorrow. It will be, well, a little
different from other RQs. You are warned.

[Mark Brader]

Erland Sommarskog:

> It was embarrassing that I confused the name of Hispaniola.

Huh? You did not any answer that looked like a confusion of "Hispaniola".

> As it turned out, it did not matter, since the hint ">1 country" was
> misleading.

Is it turned out, that was not a hint for Hispaniola. How was it misleading?
--
Mark Brader | ...roll the imaginary 60-meter sphere across the landscape
Toronto | (for safety reasons, do not use a real sphere).
m...@vex.net | --Randall Munroe

[Erland Sommarskog]

Mark Brader (m...@vex.net) writes:
> Erland Sommarskog:
>> It was embarrassing that I confused the name of Hispaniola.
>
> Huh? You did not any answer that looked like a confusion of "Hispaniola".
>

See! That is how embarrassing it was! (I entered Dominica.)

>> As it turned out, it did not matter, since the hint ">1 country" was
>> misleading.
>
> Is it turned out, that was not a hint for Hispaniola. How was it
> misleading?

With ">1 country" appearing twice, you would think that remaining entries
would be single-country islands.

[Mark Brader]

Erland Sommarskog:
>>> It was embarrassing that I confused the name of Hispaniola.

Mark Brader:

>> Huh? You did not any answer that looked like a confusion of "Hispaniola".

Erland Sommarskog:

> See! That is how embarrassing it was! (I entered Dominica.)

Ah!

>>> As it turned out, it did not matter, since the hint ">1 country" was

>>> misleading...

> With ">1 country" appearing twice, you would think that remaining entries
> would be single-country islands.

Oh. Well, I didn't, so I didn't think of that.
--
Mark Brader "I think [they] wanted ... us ... to try [them] out
Toronto and then tell the world how good they are, and
m...@vex.net it's tempting to do just that." -- Steve Summit

My text in this article is in the public domain.

[Calvin]

On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 1:10:59 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:
> "Calvin":

> > so please let me know if there are any errors.
>
> Only one, on the first question, and it only affects 5th vs. 6th place.

Thanks for spotting it- now corrected.

Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Q6 Q7 Q8 Q9 Q10 Q11 Q12 Q13 Q14 Q15 Q16 TOTAL TB RQ293

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 11 33 Erland S

0 1 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 8 26 Dan Tilque

1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 7 24 Dan Blum

0 1 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 6 23 Mark Brader

1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 10 Peter Smyth
0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 9 Pete Gayde

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - --- ----------

3 4 5 5 2 4 2 2 4 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 37 39%

[Calvin]

On Monday, June 11, 2018 at 1:10:59 PM UTC+10, Mark Brader wrote:

> "Calvin":
> > Also it was a tough one to mark since correct answers were often given
> > for the wrong question,
>
> I was hoping for part marks for answers placed close to the right line.

Nice try :-)

cheers,
calvin

[Calvin]

On Tuesday, June 12, 2018 at 5:00:29 PM UTC+10, Erland Sommarskog wrote:

> With ">1 country" appearing twice, you would think that remaining entries
> would be single-country islands.

I realised when marking that some entrants had interpreted it that way. Apologies, but OTOH since there was only one clue each time other interpretations were equally valid.

cheers,
calvin