Q 01/05

What does the Five-O in Hawaii Five-O refer to, a distinction the islands had held for only nine years?

A) Having five counties

B) Being the 50th state

C) A 50-mile coastal zone

D) Hosting five army bases

Answer · why

B) Being the 50th state

Being the 50th state gave the islands' police drama its name, because statehood had come only in 1959. The Five-O unit itself is an invention of the s...

Q 02/05

Which Hawaii Five-O detective's nickname ends Steve McGarrett's famous command to book the arrested suspects?

A) Danno

B) Duke

C) Chin

D) Truck

Answer · why

A) Danno

Danno is McGarrett's deputy, and the command became the show's catchphrase after its first use in the first-season episode Twenty-Four Karat Kill. Man...

Q 03/05

Which star of the rodeo drama Stoney Burke played Steve McGarrett in all twelve seasons of Hawaii Five-O?

A) Robert Stack

B) Mike Connors

C) Jack Lord

D) Clint Walker

Answer · why

C) Jack Lord

Jack Lord was cast at the last moment, reading for the part on a Wednesday and standing before the cameras the following Monday. He later became the s...

Q 04/05

Wo Fat, the master spy who is Steve McGarrett's nemesis in Hawaii Five-O, is a rogue agent of which country?

A) Vietnam

B) Taiwan

C) Mongolia

D) China

Answer · why

D) China

China is the homeland Wo Fat serves, though the series paints him as a rogue officer. He first appears in the 1968 pilot and was still scheming in the...

Q 05/05

Hawaii Five-O was America's longest-running police procedural until which series took the record in 2002?

A) Hill Street Blues

B) Law & Order

C) NYPD Blue

D) Cagney & Lacey

Answer · why

B) Law & Order

Law & Order finally outlasted it. Hawaii Five-O had been the first American police procedural to enjoy an uninterrupted run of more than a decade.