Hi All,
I spoke to the Windward Oahu Rotary club this week about my book, "The Companies We Keep," and gave them a quiz entitled: How Well do you know Windward Oahu?
I was reading HawaiiThreads tonight and thought this group might also be interested in the quiz. Here’s part one of two. I’ll post the correct answers in 7 days. Have fun!
Bob Sigall
How Well do you know Windward Oahu?
1. Which Windward restaurant is named for a Las Vegas Hotel?
2. What was the first school on the windward side? It got its start near Kaneohe 150 years ago as Ahuimanu College, but it has since moved to Honolulu.
3. This man managed the Lanikai Store before opening Hawaii’s first supermarket in 1948. He later brought the first McDonalds to Hawaii.
4. Which chain of 9 numbered, ethnic restaurants began in Kaneohe in 1972?
5. Who lives in Harold K.L. Castle’s former mansion, Paliku? James B. Castle’s estate in Waikiki has given a Kailua school its name. What is it?
6. This place was originally called Moku O Lo’e and was used as a base for shepherds and local fishermen and was owned by Bernice Pauahi Bishop. The next owner built a bowling alley, a shooting gallery, and a small zoo that included a giraffe, monkeys and a baby elephant. Edwin Pauley bought it and hosted famous guests, such as: Harry Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Red Skelton, Jackie Onassis, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. John Wayne filmed a movie there. What do we call this place today?
7. Which two companies were named for dairies that preceded them? One’s a store in Kahaluu and the other a restaurant chain.
8. This man was the cannery superintendent at Dole, and was fired when the first attempt to make their own cans failed. He left for the automotive business in Kaneohe. He was still surfing at age 90.
9. This is the oldest elementary school in the Kaneohe area, built in 1925 as a high school. Name it.
10. This was established in 1968 to commemorate the first Japanese immigrants to Hawaii. It is modeled after a 950 year-old building in Uji, Japan.
Answers, and part two will be posted next week.
I spoke to the Windward Oahu Rotary club this week about my book, "The Companies We Keep," and gave them a quiz entitled: How Well do you know Windward Oahu?
I was reading HawaiiThreads tonight and thought this group might also be interested in the quiz. Here’s part one of two. I’ll post the correct answers in 7 days. Have fun!
Bob Sigall
How Well do you know Windward Oahu?
1. Which Windward restaurant is named for a Las Vegas Hotel?
2. What was the first school on the windward side? It got its start near Kaneohe 150 years ago as Ahuimanu College, but it has since moved to Honolulu.
3. This man managed the Lanikai Store before opening Hawaii’s first supermarket in 1948. He later brought the first McDonalds to Hawaii.
4. Which chain of 9 numbered, ethnic restaurants began in Kaneohe in 1972?
5. Who lives in Harold K.L. Castle’s former mansion, Paliku? James B. Castle’s estate in Waikiki has given a Kailua school its name. What is it?
6. This place was originally called Moku O Lo’e and was used as a base for shepherds and local fishermen and was owned by Bernice Pauahi Bishop. The next owner built a bowling alley, a shooting gallery, and a small zoo that included a giraffe, monkeys and a baby elephant. Edwin Pauley bought it and hosted famous guests, such as: Harry Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson, Red Skelton, Jackie Onassis, Richard Nixon, and Ronald Reagan. John Wayne filmed a movie there. What do we call this place today?
7. Which two companies were named for dairies that preceded them? One’s a store in Kahaluu and the other a restaurant chain.
8. This man was the cannery superintendent at Dole, and was fired when the first attempt to make their own cans failed. He left for the automotive business in Kaneohe. He was still surfing at age 90.
9. This is the oldest elementary school in the Kaneohe area, built in 1925 as a high school. Name it.
10. This was established in 1968 to commemorate the first Japanese immigrants to Hawaii. It is modeled after a 950 year-old building in Uji, Japan.
Answers, and part two will be posted next week.
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