2010-09-30 Columns

Quizunderstood

Hawaiian Princes and Coconut Classifications

September 30, 2010 | 01:06 PM

1. The inaugural Maui County Fair was held in 1918. What baseball team won the World Series that September, and then went on to endure an 86-year championship drought?

2. Kauai's Princeville is named after what young Hawaiian royal (pictured), who died at age four in the summer of 1862?
A. Sunstroke
B. Poisoning
C. Appendicitis

Bonus: In 1994, Dr. Alfred Morris offered a "retrospective diagnosis" of the prince's cause of death. What was his conclusion?

3. According to botanists, the coconut is not a nut at all. What is it?

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1. Boston Redsox

2. Prince Albert Edward Kauikeaouli Kaleiopapa a Kamehameha; C.

3. A drupe

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