The extremely dangerous Snaefell Mountain road circuit is used for a TT race on this island that was first run in 1907. The Moddey Dhoo is a mythological black dog that supposedly haunted this island’s Peel Castle. The (+) Tynwald, which claims to be the “oldest continuous Parliament,” meets in this island’s capital of Douglas. This island’s flag depicts a triple spiral of three white (*) legs with golden spurs on a red background. A cat breed named for this Celtic island has a mutation that naturally gives it a shortened tail. For the points, name this “Isle” in the Irish Sea.

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This island's Hotel-Dieu [[DYUH]] is the world's oldest operating hospital, and this island is one of two natural islands in its city along with Saint Louis. This island's Equestrian Statue of Henry IV is separated from Place Dauphine [[PLAHSSdoh-FAHN]] by Pont Neuf [[pohnt-NUHF]], which passes over this island while crossing the Seine [[SEHN]]. For the points, name this island which is home to the Notre Dame Cathedral.

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This archipelago's Vagar Island contains an airport served by Atlantic Airways. A 2021 "Dolphin Hunt" in this archipelago resulted in the slaughter of almost 1,500 dolphins on Eysturoy [[ESS-troy]]. This archipelago's largest island Streymoy contains its capital, Tórshavn [[TOH-sha-ohn]]. The closest inhabited islands to this archipelago are the Shetland Islands, and it maintains the free trade Hoyvík [[HOY-ah-wik]] Agreement with Iceland. For the point, name this Danish archipelago in the North Sea

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This archipelago hosts the Windsurf World Cup at Sylt, and its only non-barrier island is Heligoland. This archipelago begins north of the IJsselmeer [["EYE"-selmehr]], where it includes Texel [[TESH-ull]] and encloses the Wadden Sea before running past the mouth of the Elbe River. For the points, name this North Sea archipelago split between the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark.

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On this archipelago, the explorer Gerrit de Veer recorded the first known case of hypervitaminosis A after consuming polar bear liver. Thermal inversions cause this archipelago’s namesake “effect,” mirage in which the sun can be seen below the horizon in the form of line or hourglass shape. In 1597, the explorer Willem Barentsz died while sailing from this archipelago, where he had been stranded for a year. In 1961, Soviet authorities on this archipelago tested the (*) Tsar Bomba, the largest nuclear weapon ever detonated. For the points, name this Arctic archipelago between the Kara and Barents Seas in Russia’s Far North, whose name means “New Land.”

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This island's highest point is the Punta La Marmora, which lies in the Gennargentu Range. This island is home to many stone circular towers known as nuraghe [[noo-RAH-gay]]. This island, which is its country's second largest, has a northern coast along the Strait of Bonifacio. This island's capital and largest city is Cagliari [[kah-LYAH-ree]]. For the point, name this Italian island which lies south of Corsica and northwest of Sicily.

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The pentozali is a folk dance native to this island, whose other cultural traditions include Mantinades [[mahn-tee-NAH-dehss]] poetry and music accompanied by the lyra and the laouto. This island's port of Chania [[KAH-nee-ah]] is considered a gateway to ski tourism in the Lefka Ori, or White Mountains, which are also home to the Samaria Gorge. Archaeologist Arthur Evans discovered the Linear A and Linear B scripts while excavating this island's Palace of Knossos. Heraklion is the capital of, for the point, what Greek island, once home to the Minoan civilization?

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This island contains "The Egg," an avant-garde sculpture that holds a miniature version of the Santa Maria, and the original Café del Mar, both of which are found in this island’s town of Sant Antoni de Portmany. This island’s inhabitants speak Eivissenc [[EE-vee-senk]], (+) a dialect of Catalan, along with residents of the other Pine Island, Formentera. (*) For the points, name this Spanish island in the Mediterranean known for its tourism and nightlife, the third-largest of the Balearic Islands after Majorca and Minorca.

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This archipelago is bound on the north by the Fair Isle Channel and on the south by the Pentland Firth. This archipelago's largest island is simply named the Mainland and contains the town of Stromness and its administrative center Kirkwall. For the point, identify this Scottish archipelago located south of the Shetlands.

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This island was the site of the world's first regulated Bitcoin Investment Fund. This bailiwick is located off the coast of the Cotentin [[koh-tahn-TAN]] Peninsula, and its flag features a red St. Andrew's Cross surmounted by a Plantagenet Crown, which originated in Anjou. St. Helier [[el-YEH]] is the capital of this Crown Dependency, the southernmost part of the British Isles. For the point, name this Channel Island which names a US state governed from Trenton.

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This archipelago was the site of a summit shortly before the outbreak of the war in Iraq, which was attended by the leaders of the US, UK, and Spain. This archipelago's highest point is located on Pico Island. This archipelago includes the Formigas Reef, as well as the islands of Flores and Covo. This archipelago is located northwest of the Madeira Islands and includes the islands of Terceira and São Miguel. For the point, name this Portuguesecontrolled archipelago whose capital and largest city is Ponta Delgada.

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According to this island's folklore, blood-drinking witches regularly held meetings in its mountainous region of Anaga. La Laguna is home to a major university on this island, which is also home to an astronomical observatory on its (+) Teide Peak. This island's capital of Santa Cruz is referred to as the "Sydney of the Atlantic." Heavy fog at this island's Los Rodeos Airport led to an incident in which two Boeing aircraft (*) collided, and this island is the most populous of an archipelago located off the west coast of Morocco. For the points, name this largest of the Canary Islands.

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A major city on this island is home to the Trojaborg rock maze, which was built as punishment for the daughter of a merchant who dealt with pirates that preyed on Hanseatic ships. Northeast of this island is the smaller Fårö Island, where Ingmar Bergman set films like Through a Glass Darkly and Persona. For the point, name this Baltic island that speaks a dialect called Gutnish owned by Sweden with its largest city at Visby.

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A lagoon shared between Klaipėda County and Kaliningrad is named for this historical region, whose northernmost tip is occupied by Livonians south of Saaremaa [[sah-REH-mah]] Island. A pocket of Nazi forces in the Reichskommissariat [[RIKES-koh-meh-SEHR-yat]] Ostland was named for this region, and it was the site of a Duchy named for it and Semigallia. For the points, name this region in western Latvia, which forms a peninsula enclosing the Gulf of Riga.

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This island’s Stevns [[STEV-ens]] Klint, a white chalk cliff, has been a site of extensive fossil discovery and has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. This island contains the Viking fortress of Trelleborg, the remains of a 10th-century castle constructed by King Harald (+) Bluetooth. Nyhavn and the Tivoli Gardens are tourist sites on this island located between the (*) Kattegat and the Baltic Sea and separated from Sweden by the Øresund. For the points, what Danish island includes Copenhagen?

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Christopher Columbus spent time on this island’s Porto Santo, where he got married. This archipelago, which includes the Desertas and Savage Islands, was first encountered by Prince Henry the Navigator in 1419, widely considered the first discovery of the Age of Discovery. With its capital at Funchal, for the point, what is this autonomous region of Portugal?

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This region's ports include Saint-Malo and Lorient. The Ploumanac'h [[PLOOmah-nahk]] Lighthouse is located on this peninsula's Pink Granite Coast, and the Loire River empties into the Atlantic Ocean from this peninsula. Brest, Nantes, and Rennes are cities located in, for the points, what peninsula, the westernmost region of mainland France?

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This island is separated from the mainland via the Menai Strait, and the Cymyran [[ky-mih-RAHN]] Strait separates it from the busy ferry port of Holy Head. This island, known as Ynys Môn [[AH-ness MAHN]] in its native language, contains the town Llanfairpwllgwyngyll [[LAN-fire-puhl-GWIN-gill]], which has the longest place name in Europe. This largest island of the Irish Sea is visible from Snowdonia National Park.. For the points, name this largest island of Wales.

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The Provencal language of Faetar and Griko, a Greek dialect, are languages spoken in villages of this region, while a port city in the south of this region is the world's largest producer of farmed mussels. This region's Tremiti Islands, part of Gargano National Park, are administered by the province of (+) Foggia [[FOHJ-jia]]. Lecce [[LAY-cheh]] is the center of this region's agricultural industry, which has the highest vineyard acreage and olive oil production in Italy. (*) Bari is the capital of, for the points, what region of Italy, north of the Gulf of Taranto and west of the Strait of Otranto, forming the "heel" of Italy's boot?

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A letter from the bishop Severus claims one of these islands was dominated by Jews until a forced mass conversion in AD 418. Another of these islands was the home of the Xueta [sh’weh tah] community of crypto-Jews. It was home to the Jewish father-son team of Abraham and Jehuda Cresques [kres kehs], leading members in a medieval school of cartography who produced the Catalan Atlas. In 1757, John Byng was executed for losing one of these islands that Britain had gained along with Gibraltar in the War of Spanish Succession. During the Reconquista, these islands were conquered by Aragon following the siege of Palma. For the point, name these Spanish-Mediterranean islands including Minorca, Majorca, and Ibiza.

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Abandoned communities on this archipelago include Smeerenburg, whose only remains are a set of "blubber ovens," and Pyramiden [[peer-ah-MID-en]], a site projected to resist decay for centuries due to this archipelago’s extreme cold. The northernmost civilian settlement in the world, Ny-Ålesund [[nee-OH-leh-sund]], the Russian coal mining town of Barentsburg, and the Global Seed Vault in Longyearbyen are on this archipelago's island of Spitsbergen. For the point, name this Arctic Sea archipelago of Norway.

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This peninsula was the home of Europe's first anti-fascist organization, created in the region of Goriška [[goh-REESH-kah]]. The Kvarner Gulf, which includes islands such as Cres [[CHRESS]] and Krk [[KID-ik]], bounds this peninsula, traditionally represented by a goat on a national flag, along with regions like Slavonia and Dalmatia. Pula is the largest city of this peninsula. The Italian city of Trieste is found on, for the point, what largest peninsula on the Adriatic?

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François Dunan lends his name to a hospital in this territory where the Villa Cutty Sark was built with wooden crates that were used by Al Capone and others to transport whiskey during Prohibition. In 1889, Auguste Neel was executed in this territory with a guillotine shipped from (+) Martinique. An isthmus called La Dune connects one island in this territory west of the Burin peninsula to the island of Langlade. (*) For the points, name this French overseas collectivity off the coast of Newfoundland in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

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This island's largest settlement is Olonkin Town, and its two halves are linked by an isthmus that contains Nordlaguna and Sørlaguna. Gravel is the sole natural resource produced on this island which is part of Nordland County. This island contains the northern terminus of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at its volcano Beerenberg. Located 350 miles northeast of Iceland is, for the points, what Norwegian island often grouped with Svalbard?

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The Cimbri were a tribe thought to have been from this peninsula, inspiring an alternate name. This peninsula’s most populous city, nicknamed the “City of Smiles,” is Aarhus. Funen is found between this peninsula and the island of Zealand. A World War I battle fought off this peninsula saw the German navy defeated by the forces of John Jellicoe. For the point, name this peninsula shared by Germany and Denmark.

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