I was wondering what to quiz about today, and I was thinking how entertaining the “Jerm’s Corner” Hawaiian trivia segments on the Miss Information podcast have been this year. (I’m finally almost caught up after going through the whole back catalog. Listen to Julia and Lauren, everybody. They’re the bomb.)
Then, I logged onto the computer today and the first story I see is about Hawaiian coral reefs. Et voila, a mini-quiz topic was decided.
As Wayne and Garth would say: Pass the poi, Mahalo.
Questions:
- The island of Hawaii is the largest of the archipelago and fittingly called “The Big Island.” Of the eight primary islands of Hawaii, what is the second largest?
- Elvis Presley’s movie career took him to Hawaii to film a picture three times: first in 1961 for “Blue Hawaii” and again in 1962 and 1965 for what two films?
- Formerly known as Lydia Kamaka’eha, what was the regnal name taken by the queen of Hawaii upon her ascension in 1891? She would be Hawaii’s last sovereign monarch, as her reign ended two years later in a coup d’etat (to protect American interests) that led to the annexation of Hawaii by the United States.
- The modern Hawaiian alphabet has 13 letters: five vowels and eight consonants, including a diacritical mark represented by an apostrophe that indicates a glottal stop. What is that mark, considered a consonant, called?
- Designated H-1, H-2 and H-3 and all located on Oahu, the three main highways in Hawaii are actually part of what, despite Hawaii not being part of the continental U.S.?
Answers up after one of the best scenes from Hawaiian-set “Lilo and Stitch,” in which the hero of a Disney movie, after explaining why she can’t feed a tuna fish sandwich to her fish friend, jumps on top of a rude classmate and straight socks her in her stupid nose.
Answers:
- Maui
- “Girls! Girls! Girls!” and “Paradise, Hawaiian Style”
- Liliuokalani
- Okina
- Interstate System
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