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Quiz about Hawaii FiveO  The First Season
Quiz about Hawaii FiveO  The First Season

"Hawaii Five-O": The First Season Quiz


The legendary crime drama "Hawaii Five-O" began its run on CBS in 1968. This quiz is about the first season of this great television program.

A multiple-choice quiz by cag1970. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
cag1970
Time
6 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
290,312
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Difficult
Avg Score
5 / 10
Plays
1026
Awards
Top 20% Quiz
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Question 1 of 10
1. "Cocoon", the pilot for "Hawaii Five-O", featured a number of well-known stars. Which of the following people did NOT appear in "Cocoon"? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. In the episode "Tiger By The Tail", singer Bobby George stages his own abduction in order to generate a little publicity. Who played the singer, who finds out that his little scheme might really get him killed? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. In the episode "...And They Painted Daisies On His Coffin", Gavin McLeod goes against the grain when he plays a nefarious drug dealer. What was the name of McLeod's character? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. In the episode "Samurai", Five-O chief Steve McGarrett (played by Jack Lord) and his team must protect Honolulu crime boss Leonard Tokura, who is the target of a group of Japanese assassins. Which actor played Tokura in this episode? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. The episode "Full Fathom Five" marked the first appearance of an actor who would later become a regular member of the series. Which actor made his "Hawaii Five-O" debut as Lt. Balta in this episode? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. In "King Of The Hill", the Five-O team finds itself dealing with a Vietnam vet who believes he is back on the battlefield and turns a hospital into a war zone. What well-known African-American actor played Lance Corporal John T. Auston in this powerful episode? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. In "The Box", McGarrett finds himself a hostage during an uprising at Oahu State Prison. Which actor, who would later play a cop on TV himself, played the uprising's leader, a disgruntled prisoner named Carl Swanson? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In the episode "By The Numbers", a young soldier on leave in Hawaii is caught in the middle of a deadly battle between rivals in a numbers syndicate, after his buddy is killed. Which actor, better known for his work as a child star, played U.S. Army Private Jerry Crawford in this episode? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. In the two-part episode "Once Upon A Time", McGarrett leaves Hawaii to help his sister, Mary Ann Whalen (played by Nancy Malone), deal with a quack whose trickery puts her infant son in grave danger. What mainland city does McGarrett travel to in this two-part arc? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. In "The Big Kahuna", McGarrett and the Five-O team, at the request of Hawaii's governor, investigate the claims of old friend Sam Kalakua, who believes he is being stalked by the Hawaiian fire goddess, Pele. Which actress, dressing as this mythical character, does so to try and drive Kalakua out of his home? Hint



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1. "Cocoon", the pilot for "Hawaii Five-O", featured a number of well-known stars. Which of the following people did NOT appear in "Cocoon"?

Answer: Vera Miles

A prolific actress whose motion-picture resumé includes work with directors John Ford and Alfred Hitchcock, Vera Miles also appeared in many different television shows over her career. She did appear in an episode of "Hawaii Five-O", but it wasn't "Cocoon", which originally aired September 20, 1968. Instead, she appeared in the third season episode "Dear Enemy" in 1971.
2. In the episode "Tiger By The Tail", singer Bobby George stages his own abduction in order to generate a little publicity. Who played the singer, who finds out that his little scheme might really get him killed?

Answer: Sal Mineo

In addition to Sal Mineo, who won a Golden Globe for his performance in the movie "Exodus", "Tiger By The Tail" (originally aired October 10, 1968) featured Sam Melville as George's manager, Jerry Parks, and Harold J. Stone as George's father. Melville would go on to join the good guys in the 1970s-vintage cop show "The Rookies".
3. In the episode "...And They Painted Daisies On His Coffin", Gavin McLeod goes against the grain when he plays a nefarious drug dealer. What was the name of McLeod's character?

Answer: Big Chicken

In this episode, originally aired November 7, 1968, Five-O second-in-command Danny Williams (played by James MacArthur) fights for his professional and personal life as he tries to prove that he didn't maliciously gun down a young kid. McLeod's character ends up going to prison for a different crime and confronts Five-O boss Steve McGarrett (Jack Lord) in another episode later in the first season.
4. In the episode "Samurai", Five-O chief Steve McGarrett (played by Jack Lord) and his team must protect Honolulu crime boss Leonard Tokura, who is the target of a group of Japanese assassins. Which actor played Tokura in this episode?

Answer: Ricardo Montalban

Originally aired October 17, 1968, "Samurai" was the first of two appearances by Montalban on "Hawaii Five-O". Also playing a prominent role in this episode was actor Morgan White, who played Hawaii's attorney general, Walter Stewart. Montalban would appear on the show again, as race-car driver Alex Pareno, in the fifth-season episode "Death Wish On Tantalus Mountain" (originally aired September 19, 1972).
5. The episode "Full Fathom Five" marked the first appearance of an actor who would later become a regular member of the series. Which actor made his "Hawaii Five-O" debut as Lt. Balta in this episode?

Answer: Herman Wedemeyer

An outstanding running back at St. Mary's College of California, Herman Wedemeyer finished fourth in the Heisman Trophy balloting in 1945, and played two seasons in the now-defunct All-American Football Conference. The same year he made his first appearance on "Hawaii Five-O" in "Full Fathom Five" (originally aired September 26, 1968), he was elected to the Honolulu city council.

He would appear on several other episodes as different characters, before settling in to the character he's best known for, as Honolulu police sergeant (and later Five-O detective) Duke Lukela, in the fifth-season episode "Death Is A Company Policy" (originally aired September 12, 1972).
6. In "King Of The Hill", the Five-O team finds itself dealing with a Vietnam vet who believes he is back on the battlefield and turns a hospital into a war zone. What well-known African-American actor played Lance Corporal John T. Auston in this powerful episode?

Answer: Yaphet Kotto

Auston suffered an injury while he was attending a Little League baseball practice that Danno was running. The injury triggered frightening flashbacks for Auston, who believes that Danno is a Viet Cong soldier. The Five-O team works desperately to defuse the situation and get to Danno before he bleeds to death from his wounds. "King Of The Hill" originally aired January 8, 1969.
7. In "The Box", McGarrett finds himself a hostage during an uprising at Oahu State Prison. Which actor, who would later play a cop on TV himself, played the uprising's leader, a disgruntled prisoner named Carl Swanson?

Answer: Gerald S. O'Loughlin

Originally aired January 29, 1969, "The Box" marked the return of Gavin McLeod as Big Chicken, who is bound and determined to take McGarrett down for good. Swanson, unable to cope with life in prison, wants the state to build a more modern facility in which he and others will feel safe. O'Loughlin, of course, went on to star on another TV crime drama, "The Rookies", in the 1970s.
8. In the episode "By The Numbers", a young soldier on leave in Hawaii is caught in the middle of a deadly battle between rivals in a numbers syndicate, after his buddy is killed. Which actor, better known for his work as a child star, played U.S. Army Private Jerry Crawford in this episode?

Answer: Johnny Crawford

An original member of the famed Mousekeeters in 1955, Johnny Crawford was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work as Mark McCain, the son of Lucas McCain (played by Chuck Connors) in the long-running Western series "The Rifleman" in 1959. He made numerous appearances on a variety of television shows during his career, and was also a professional rodeo rider in the 1960s and 1970s. "By The Numbers" originally aired December 12, 1968.
9. In the two-part episode "Once Upon A Time", McGarrett leaves Hawaii to help his sister, Mary Ann Whalen (played by Nancy Malone), deal with a quack whose trickery puts her infant son in grave danger. What mainland city does McGarrett travel to in this two-part arc?

Answer: Los Angeles

Dr. C.L. Fremont (played by Joanne Linville) gives false hope to the Whalens, telling them that expensive treatments with a worthless machine are helping to heal their infant son's cancer. McGarrett works with the Food and Drug Administration to build his case against her, after his nephew dies. Also featured in this episode, originally aired February 19 and February 26, 1969, are veteran character actor William Schallert (as Fremont's lawyer) and Emmy Award-winning actress Beah Richards (as a woman who also fell victim to Fremont's quackery).
10. In "The Big Kahuna", McGarrett and the Five-O team, at the request of Hawaii's governor, investigate the claims of old friend Sam Kalakua, who believes he is being stalked by the Hawaiian fire goddess, Pele. Which actress, dressing as this mythical character, does so to try and drive Kalakua out of his home?

Answer: Sally Kellerman

In this episode, originally aired March 19, 1969, Kellerman plays Eleanor, the wife of Sam Kalakua's nephew George (played by Robert Colbert). Eleanor and George are in cahoots with a powerful real-estate developer who wants Kalakua's land to build on. Thanks to McGarrett and the work of his team, Kalakua keeps his home.

"The Big Kahuna" was the final episode of "Hawaii Five-O's" first season. The series would run twelve seasons altogether.
Source: Author cag1970

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