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Quizunderstood
Daylight Savings and Hawaii Refineries

by Jacob Shafer

November 11, 2010

1. Last Sunday, in recognition of Daylight Saving Time, clocks in 48 states were set back one hour. Hawaii is one of the states that didn’t participate; name the other.

Answer: Arizona

2. Hawaii has two oil refineries. Chevron owns one; what company owns the other?

Bonus: Texas has the most oil refineries of any state. How many does it have?

A. 26 B. 126 C. 226

Answer: Tesoro; A.

3. The Hawaiian alphabet has only 12 letters, but it isn’t the shortest in the world. That distinction belongs to the Rotokas alphabet, used on Bougainville in the Solomon Islands, which has how many letters?

A. 7 B. 9 C. 11

Answer: C.