Islands that Never Really Were, 4th Archipelago Quiz

Answer: The Island of Dr. Moreau

Wells' story of "The Island of Doctor Moreau" has been filmed at least a dozen times with various inflections. The original was a contribution to the fin de siècle conversation about the morality of vivisection. The location of the island is never disclosed; it is said not to be on any chart.

Answer: Fibber Island

According to John Flansburgh, who sings this song on the album "No! TMBG Clock Radio," it is the proposed national anthem of Fibber Island. The island is/was located just to the east of Nantucket, Massachusetts. It was the retirement home and preferred vacation spot for CIA spies and black ops agents until its attempt to gain independence from the United States in the 1960s.

The secession attempt prompted President Lyndon B. Johnson and the FBI to make the island disappear.

Answer: Pala

Huxley apparently set out to create some balance to his earlier work by positing a society part way between Utopia and primitive savagery. "Island" is a book about what might be called Utilitarian sanity. The author took a world tour in 1925. He was exposed to diverse cultures and locales. Pala is perhaps drawn from the islands of the Indonesian Archipelago.

Answer: Spoon Island

The mansion (and the island) is owned by the Cassadine Family, as it has been since 1996. The castle is an attractive location for all manner of interesting activity: secret passages, underground tunnels, a ballroom, a parapet, a stable, and catacombs.

Answer: "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was an Anglo-Irish author and clergyman who became the Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. He wrote a book entitled "Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels." The first voyage describes his trip to Lilliput where the people are six inches tall. Blefuscu is a neighbouring island nation with which the Lilliputians are at war.

Answer: Kirrin Island

Enid Blyton wrote 21 book-length adventures of the children in the Famous Five -- Julian, Dick, Anne and Georgina (George) and George's dog Timmy. Over 100 million have been sold worldwide. Kirrin Island is patterned on Corfe Castle which stands on the Isle of Purbeck (not really an island but rather a peninsula) in Dorset.

Answer: R'lyeh

According to several of Lovecraft's stories, Cthulhu and his minions await in green slimy vaults far under the sea on a sunken island called R'lyeh. There is a city there but it was built using non-Euclidean geometry, which produces a bizarre effect. On those rare occasions when R'lyeh arises, only a single gigantic building in which Cthulhu is lain breaks the surface.

The island is located somewhere near the oceanic pole of inaccessibility (48°52.6'S 123°23.6'W).

Answer: Lincoln Island

There are numerous connections between "The Mysterious Island" and "Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea." At the time of the American Civil War, five Union prisoners escape Richmond in a balloon. They land days later on an uncharted island at 34°57'S 150°30'W (East of New Zealand).

They name their new home Lincoln Island in honour of the president who they served. The computer game "Myst" (1993) was inspired by this Jules Verne novel.

Answer: San Lorenzo

The Republic of San Lorenzo occupies the entirety of San Lorenzo Island in the vicinity of Puerto Rico. It is a poor country with too few natural resources and too many people. The topography is rocky, the roads are dirt and the economy is subsistence.

Answer: Amity Island

Roy Scheider, as the chief of the Amity Island Police Department, Robert Shaw as a professional shark hunter, and Richard Dreyfuss as an oceanographer search Atlantic waters for the great white shark which is eating swimmers and profits in the coastal community.

The film was shot primarily on location on Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. John Williams' score became instantly recognizable. And the film begat numerous sequels ... none of them as good as the original.