Today's Bing Quiz

Stuck on a question in today's Bing quiz on African islands? Today's Bing quiz covers how Madagascar ranks among the world's biggest islands, a group of primates found on just one island, the country that governs a famous spice archipelago, a lost flightless bird of the Indian Ocean, an Atlantic nation's colonial past, the owner of a volcanic chain off northwest Africa, the island that holds a mainland country's capital, a palm with the largest seed on Earth, an emperor's final exile and a French island with one of the world's most active volcanoes. Open a clue for a gentle nudge. The clues never give away the correct answer — full answers and explanations appear on your results screen.

Questions updated: November 13, 2026

1. Madagascar, the largest island in Africa, ranks where among the largest islands in the world?Clue: It is bigger than Canada's Baffin Island and Indonesia's Sumatra, but smaller than Borneo.
2. Madagascar is the only natural home of which group of primates?Clue: The best-known species has a black-and-white ringed tail and sunbathes with its arms spread wide.
3. The Zanzibar Archipelago, famous for its clove and spice trade, is part of which country?Clue: The same country is home to Mount Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti.
4. Which flightless bird, extinct since the late 1600s, lived only on the island of Mauritius?Clue: Its closest living relatives are pigeons, and its name has become shorthand for anything extinct.
5. The Atlantic island nation of Cabo Verde, off West Africa, was a colony of which European country until 1975?Clue: Cabo Verde's official language is also the main language of Brazil.
6. The Canary Islands, about 100 kilometers off the coast of Morocco, belong to which country?Clue: Its mainland capital is Madrid.
7. Malabo, the capital of Equatorial Guinea, sits on which island in the Gulf of Guinea?Clue: This island was known as Fernando Pó during the colonial era.
8. Which palm native to the Seychelles produces the largest seed in the plant kingdom?Clue: Sailors once believed it grew on underwater trees because they found its huge nuts floating in the Indian Ocean.
9. Napoleon Bonaparte spent his final exile, and died in 1821, on which remote South Atlantic island?Clue: It is a British Overseas Territory nearly 2,000 kilometers west of Angola.
10. Piton de la Fournaise, one of the world's most active volcanoes, is on which Indian Ocean island that is part of France?Clue: It lies about 175 kilometers southwest of Mauritius.