Q 01/05

Which famously winding Maui road do visitors drive to reach Haleakalā National Park's coastal district?

A) Kahekili Highway

B) Hāna Highway

C) Honoapiʻilani Highway

D) Kula Highway

Answer · why

B) Hāna Highway

Hāna Highway carries visitors past Hāna town to the coastal entrance; no road inside the park links that district to the summit.

Q 02/05

What does the name Haleakalā mean in Hawaiian?

A) Path of the sun

B) House of the sun

C) Home of the gods

D) Eye of the sky

Answer · why

B) House of the sun

House of the sun: hale means house and lā sun. In legend the demigod Māui hid near the summit and roped the sun's rays one by one as it rose.

Q 03/05

In legend, why did the demigod Māui lasso the sun from Haleakalā's summit?

A) To steal fire from it

B) To stop it scorching his crops

C) To slow it and lengthen the day

D) To win a bet

Answer · why

C) To slow it and lengthen the day

To slow it and lengthen the day: in the best-known telling his mother Hina's bark cloth would not dry, and the beaten sun agreed to cross the sky slow...

Q 04/05

In the Hawaiian legend, which relative showed Māui how to snare the sun on Haleakalā?

A) His eldest brother

B) His grandmother

C) His father

D) His sister

Answer · why

B) His grandmother

His grandmother, in the best-known telling, cooked bananas for the sun in the crater; once Māui stole them she gave him a stone axe and a hiding place...

Q 05/05

Which of these Hawaiian peaks rises higher than Haleakalā's 10,023-foot summit?

A) Hualālai

B) Kohala

C) Mauna Kea

D) Kīlauea

Answer · why

C) Mauna Kea

Mauna Kea and its neighbour Mauna Loa are the state's only higher peaks; measured from its base on the sea floor, Mauna Kea is taller than Mount Evere...