Q 01/05

The Five-O of Hawaii Five-O marks which milestone, reached by the islands nine years before the 1968 premiere?

A) Becoming the 50th state

B) Fifty years as a territory

C) Its 500,000th resident

D) Fifty years of US rule

Answer · why

A) Becoming the 50th state

Becoming the 50th state in 1959 is what the name salutes, and five-O has since become American slang for the police.

Q 02/05

Which Canberra-born actor plays task-force leader Steve McGarrett in the Hawaii Five-0 reboot?

A) Simon Baker

B) Anthony LaPaglia

C) Alex O'Loughlin

D) Ryan Kwanten

Answer · why

C) Alex O'Loughlin

Alex O'Loughlin trained at Sydney's National Institute of Dramatic Art before leading the reboot. One of his first acting jobs was as an extra playing...

Q 03/05

A CBS insider said the reboot Hawaii Five-0 traded its title's letter O for a zero to improve what?

A) Trademark protection

B) Search engine results

C) Closed-caption accuracy

D) Overseas title dubbing

Answer · why

B) Search engine results

Search engine results were the worry: a zero set the new show apart from the more than 1.7 million pages Google already listed under the original's sp...

Q 04/05

Which detective series was created to keep using the costly production facilities built for Hawaii Five-O?

A) Jake and the Fatman

B) Simon & Simon

C) Hawaiian Heat

D) Magnum, P.I.

Answer · why

D) Magnum, P.I.

Magnum, P.I. arrived on CBS months after the older show ended, and its first episodes even refer to Five-O as if both share one world.

Q 05/05

Which actor, the first Felix Leiter of the James Bond films, played McGarrett in the original Hawaii Five-O?

A) Robert Stack

B) Mike Connors

C) Jack Lord

D) Peter Graves

Answer · why

C) Jack Lord

Jack Lord played Leiter in Dr. No in 1962, then McGarrett for twelve seasons. A CGI recreation of him even shares a scene with the reboot's McGarrett ...