Q 01/05

Honolulu sits on the southeast coast of which Hawaiian island?

A) Oahu

B) Kauai

C) Molokai

D) Maui

Answer · why

A) Oahu

Oahu. City and county are a single government covering the whole island, so the mayor of Honolulu is also in charge of the country towns on the far No...

Q 02/05

What does the name Honolulu mean in Hawaiian?

A) Rising sun

B) Gathering place

C) Place of chiefs

D) Sheltered harbour

Answer · why

D) Sheltered harbour

Sheltered harbour, from hono, a port, and lulu, calm. Captain Cook and other early explorers overlooked the anchorage behind its reef, and no foreign ...

Q 03/05

Which trade made Honolulu's port boom in the 1840s?

A) Pineapple canning

B) Whaling

C) Pearl diving

D) Coffee growing

Answer · why

B) Whaling

Whaling. Hundreds of whaleships a year put in at Hawaiian ports in the 1840s to rest their crews and restock, and for about 40 years supplying them wa...

Q 04/05

Kamehameha III moved the kingdom's capital to Honolulu from which town?

A) Hilo

B) Kaneohe

C) Lahaina

D) Kailua-Kona

Answer · why

C) Lahaina

Lahaina. Trade and foreign shipping had been shifting to Honolulu for years, and in 1845 the king moved his government from the Maui town to follow th...

Q 05/05

In 1935, which pilot became the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to the US mainland?

A) Charles Lindbergh

B) Amelia Earhart

C) Howard Hughes

D) Wiley Post

Answer · why

B) Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart. The crossing had a deadly record, with lives lost in a 1927 air race over the same water, yet her own flight to Oakland was mainly rou...