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Hawaii Quiz: Test Your Knowledge of the Aloha State

This quiz tests your knowledge about Hawaii, including its geography, history, and popular culture references from the TV series 'Hawaii'.

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1 What is the largest city of Hawaii?

2 Who played Kaleo in the TV series Hawaii?

3 Who played Charles Bromley in the TV series Hawaii?

4 Who played Capt. Rafer Hoxworth in the TV series Hawaii?

5 In terms of elevation, what is the lowest place in Hawaii?

6 Hawaii represents the northernmost extension of the vast Polynesian triangle of the south and central ______.

7 What is Hawaii's nickname?

8 Who played Jerusha Bromley in the TV series Hawaii?

9 The Provisional Government of Hawaii ended on July 4, 1894, replaced by the ______.

10 What role did Elizabeth Logue play in the TV series Hawaii?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • more than $200 million in US currency was burned at both a crematorium and the Aiea Sugar Mill in Hawaii, due to being redeemed for HAWAII Overprint Notes ($20 Note pictured).
  • in three days of nearly non-stop negotiations, Nathan Feinsinger mediated an end to a 1947 pineapple workers' strike which threatened the entire Hawaiian economy.
  • only three of the largest islands of the United States — the Big Island of Hawaii, Kodiak Island, and Puerto Rico — are greater than 3,000 square miles (8,000 km²) in size.
  • the crematory at the Oahu Cemetery in Hawaii was used to burn $200 million in U.S. bank notes after the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
  • the Hawaiian settlement Kainaliu was named after an ancient canoe bailer who worked for King Keawenuiaʻumi in the 16th century.
  • in 1967, the M139 bomblet (interior pictured) was tested in Hawaii using live Sarin nerve agent.
  • former Spanish sailor Don Francisco de Paula Marín (1774–1837) introduced many crops such as pineapple to Hawaii.
  • a blister beetle was introduced in Hawaii to trim the wood-boring Sonoran carpenter bee population, but the beetle failed to survive in the islands.
  • an attempted Russian conquest of Hawaii in 1815–1817 was led by a German physician.
  • because actor Alan Dale was unable to go to Hawaii to appear on ABC's Lost as Charles Widmore, the camera crew moved to London to include him on the show anyway.
  • exhibits at the Bailey House Museum on Maui include a 33 feet (10 m) fishing boat, a collection of snail shells, a unique wooden statue of a Hawaiian demi-god, and 19th century Maui landscapes (pictured).
  • the Pali Lookout in Hawaii was originally the site of the bloody Battle of Nu'uanu, where 400 warriors were driven over a cliff by Kamehameha I.
  • the USS Mount Vernon, a control ship in the cleanup of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, was destroyed off the coast of Hawaii in 2005.
  • the old Honolulu Police Station in Hawaii's Merchant Street Historic District was designed by American architect Louis Davis in the Mission Revival Style.
  • the second deepest spot in the world, the HMRG Deep, was discovered by a team of scientists from Hawaii even though it is located by Guam.
  • the steel beams of Opaekaa Road Bridge, in Kapa'a, Hawaii were forged in 1890 in Motherwell, Scotland.
  • the unmanned Apollo VI space capsule was recovered by the USS Okinawa (LPH-3) 380 miles north of Kauai, Hawaii.
  • the last two buildings used by the Makawao Union Church were built atop the foundation of a 19th-century sugarcane mill in Maui, Hawaii.
  • the first newspaper in Hawaii was printed by students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834, on a printing press brought to the islands in 1820.
  • the bluestripe snapper (pictured) was introduced to Hawaii in the 1950s as a sport fish, and now outcompetes native fish for space and food.
  • the frangipani (or plumeria), which is used to make leis (pictured) in Hawaii, is native to Central and northern South America.
  • the western yellowjacket, an invasive species in Hawaii, can be baited with poisoned catfood.
  • the first Hawaii showing of From Here to Eternity premiered at the Iao Theater.
  • Thyrocopa is a genus of flightless moth endemic to Hawaii.
  • Pleistodontes froggatti, the fig wasp that pollinates the Moreton Bay fig, was intentionally introduced into Hawaii in 1921.
  • Ben Finney, one of the Polynesian Voyaging Society founders who designed, built, and sailed the Hokulea on its first voyage from Hawaii to Tahiti, wrote his thesis on surfing for his M.A. degree.
  • Betsey Stockton, the first unmarried female foreign missionary, was a manumitted slave who established schools in Hawaii and Canada.
  • Cross Seamount, a landform arising from the ocean floor southwest of Hawaii, is used by the NOAA to study tuna migratory patterns.
  • Eduardo Malapit, mayor of Kauai, Hawaii, from 1974 to 1982, was the first mayor of Filipino descent in the United States.
  • Ah Jook Ku, a journalist and writer based in Hawaii, was the first Asian American reporter for the Associated Press, as well as the first Asian American female reporter for the Honolulu Star-Bulletin.
  • AMiBA (pictured) is a radio telescope located on Mauna Loa in Hawaii that is being used to observe the Cosmic Microwave Background and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect in clusters of galaxies.
  • Dave Burrell's operatic live jazz album Windward Passages was his response to land development in Hawaii during the late 1970's.
  • Hawaii's Chain of Craters Road has been blocked repeatedly by lava flows from Kīlauea volcano (pictured) since it was built in 1928.
  • hula master George Na'ope was designated a "Living Golden Treasure" by the state of Hawaii.
  • 'Opaeka'a Falls (pictured) on the Hawaiian island of Kauai is named after the native freshwater shrimp ("rolling shrimp" in Hawaiian) that "roll" down the falls.
  • George Lycurgus (pictured), who developed two historic hotels in Hawaii, was arrested and imprisoned for treason after the failed 1895 counter-revolution.
  • Harry Endo had been filmed in a commercial for the bank in Hawaii where he worked when he was asked to play the role of "Che Fong", an original cast member of the television series Hawaii Five-O.
  • Kona lows bring severe weather to Hawaii two to three times each year between October and April.
  • Lee Embree took the first air-to-air photographs of the 1941 Attack on Pearl Harbor from an unarmed B-17 Flying Fortress, which arrived in Hawaii 30 minutes after the beginning of the attack.
  • mahi-mahi fishing in Hawaii has been done from kites flown from cliff tops.
  • Duranta erecta, a widely cultivated ornamental plant, has been identified as an invasive species in Fiji, French Polynesia and Hawaii.
  • Kawaiahao Church is known as the Westminster Abbey of Hawaii.
  • Johnny Noble was the first Hawaiian composer to be inducted into the ASCAP.
  • Hawaii House Bill 444 would allow civil unions in the state of Hawaii.
  • Herbert K. Pililaau was the first person from Hawaii to receive the Medal of Honor.
  • Hurricane Cosme in 2007 helped relieve a persistent drought in Hawaii.
  • Hurricane Fico caused significant damage in Hawaii without making landfall.
  • 2005's Hurricane Kenneth (pictured) brought heavy rainfall to Oahu and Kauai in Hawaii, enough for its name to be considered for retirement.
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