Q 01/05
A) Oahu
B) Kauai
C) Maui
D) Molokai
Answer · why
The volcano it is named for makes up more than three-quarters of the island; the West Maui Mountains are the rest.
Q 02/05
A) Mountain of fire
B) House of the sun
C) Home of the gods
D) Eye of the sky
Answer · why
In legend the demigod Māui snared the sun from its summit to make the days longer.
Q 03/05
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 with his brothers
Answer · why
His mother Hina complained her bark cloth would not dry in the short days; the sun agreed to long summer days and short winter ones.
Q 04/05
A) His sister's hair
B) Coconut fibre
C) Shark sinew
D) Vines from a wiliwili tree
Answer · why
In one version his blind grandmother helped him after he stole her bananas one by one; the constellation Scorpius is his fishhook.
Q 05/05
A) 8,650 feet
B) 9,400 feet
C) 12,100 feet
D) 10,023 feet
Answer · why
Puʻu ʻUlaʻula means Red Hill; the volcano may once have topped 12,000 feet before erosion carved its valleys.
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