THIS N THAT

 Today I'll make it like a quiz.

The largest countries in the world by population are in order; China, India and the United States.   What country is in fourth place?  Wrong!  It's aisenodnI  (backwards).

How many islands make up the country of Indonesia?  Five, six or seventeen?  Wrong!  The answer is seventeen thousand, five hundred and eight.  Yikes!  Six thousand are mostly uninhabited.

In one of the all time great songs, released in 1962 and brought to the US in 1963 by Rolf Harris, name all the animals that the dying stockman asked his friends to take care of when he died.   I know, you have no idea what I'm asking about.  They are:  Kangaroo, Wallaby, Cockatoo, Koala and Platypus.  The Abos that he wanted let loose were Aborigine slaves - that line is left out of modern versions.   Go to YouTube and listen to "Tie me kangaroo down, Sport."  You'll love it. 

It seems I'm stuck on islands, today.  Greenland is the largest island country.  Australia is an island continent.  Antarctica is also a continent.  It seems to me that Antarctica is also an island.  It is bordered by water on all sides; the Pacific, Atlantic and Indian Oceans.  Antarctica is larger than Australia.  So, what is the largest island continent?  

By the way, in one of the great advertising ploys of all time; Greenland is mostly icy and Iceland is mostly green.  Lesson:  choose what you name your business quickly and wisely.