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Btw, Robert Louis Stevenson has a series of novels about Hawaii, and some of them mention leprosy. I didn't even heard about that disease before reading his books...
 
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Excuse me but I believe question 9 is incorrect, the Hawaiian Department of Health ordered the lepers sent to Molokai. Nowhere did I see it was business owners that decreed them exiled, but I saw multiple links saying the Department of Health was responsible.
 
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blackwandpowder said:
Excuse me but I believe question 9 is incorrect, the Hawaiian Department of Health ordered the lepers sent to Molokai. Nowhere did I see it was business owners that decreed them exiled, but I saw multiple links saying the Department of Health was responsible.
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I'd like a source for this one too, though with the hint in mind ("Leprosy scares the tourists and the profits"), "Business owners" does seem to be the only appliccable answer.
Unfortunately, because of the pressure of time, I answered "Royalty" due to not being able to find anything noteworthy while looking the hint up; the closest thing I could find (and thus noted down) was "leprosy stigma", which doesn't exactly relate all that well to "scare".
In hindsight (without the pressure of time), the answer is obvious enough.
That being said, I'd still like to see the source for this question, as I googled in any and every way I could think of but still didn't find any tangible info.


Time for consolation-pizza.... (Was gonna be a "you did well"-pizza, but....)


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Googling "Hawaiian business owners "leprosy" exile" reveals next to nothing, with the most relevant result having it's info hidden behind a paywall. If that washingtonpost-page was the source of the info (can't confirm due to paywall), then it's not a good source; The source should be available for everyone.
Additionally, I was only able to find this scarse piece of info after getting to know what the actual answer was (and thus incorporating it into the search). The only thing google gave me before this was several "Google book"-results in PDF-format, none of which seemed relevant before the quiz, none of which seems relevant now after the quiz.
 
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mr-gentleman

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blackwandpowder said:
Excuse me but I believe question 9 is incorrect, the Hawaiian Department of Health ordered the lepers sent to Molokai. Nowhere did I see it was business owners that decreed them exiled, but I saw multiple links saying the Department of Health was responsible.
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Can't find many sources either (can't quite find the one I used either), but I didn't mean it as they decreed it, more like they advised/pressured the royalty/board to take action (how some times political acts/laws have behind big companies in order to benefit them), I also found this in: "Sugarcane and Lepers: Health Policy and the Colonization of Hawaii (1860-1900) "
"Originally, the motivations for a state leprosy policy were predominantly humanitarian and economic. Depopulation presented a substantial risk to the Hawaiian Kingdom, and it was important to deal with the problems of epidemic disease that were at the time confounding Western industrial societies. The shift towards labor-intensive sugarcane cultivation did to a certain extent motivate anti-leprosy measures. It was necessary to protect the health of the workforce and to mitigate the leprosy stigma of Hawaiian business in order to have effective external trade relations. "

But on another hand, I found another source (while searching for my original one) suggesting a fifth answer: European/American Advisers pressured the Royalty (from John Tayman , Colony: The Harrowing True Story of the Exiles of Molokai)

I also found a place mentioning the letter from a doctor that persuaded the Council Board that might have initiated it.

Either way, I guess this is one of those unclear questions that had more potential interpretations, but without a straight forward answer, that is my bad, won't deny that.
 
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ttrm

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mr-gentleman said:
Either way, I guess this is one of those unclear questions that had more potential interpretations, but without a straight forward answer, that is my bad, won't deny that.
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Does that mean I have valid clearance to file a ticket to support and request that today's prize money be added to my account? ;p
Obviously not...
 
lachdanan

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Hint #9: there are only 3 words or there's something hidden in the end? Because the text is strangely left-aligned...
 
mr-gentleman

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lachdanan said:
Hint #9: there are only 3 words or there's something hidden in the end? Because the text is strangely left-aligned...
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3, not sure what happened with the text.

Last moment word of advice: reading the answers before the question might be helpful, since the hints are a bit confusing as well, the main point of the quiz is finding which answer doesn't fit with the rest, the question itself might just be an additional hint thou.
 
kaitzschu

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What the heck that most obvious wrong answer was?

Edit: I'm pretty sure it was "porpoise". It's not everyday I see a brand new word!
 
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reiten said:
Question 8 was a bit mean, but still ok. My main gripe is with question 9. It was really unclear and confusing.
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8's hint was a bit misleading, rather than how most of the questions directed to the right answer (the odd one), this one directed to the non-odd answers. It wasn't intentional to trick you like that, but I guess my own mind got tricked with the whole find the "wrong answer in the right sequence" or something like that

9, well, I tried clarifying in the question itself that I tried referring to the light spectrum, while being fairly certain that there can be different primary colors depending on what you choose, that is why I also introduced RGB in the question, but, the mental gymnastics are a bit overwhelming at this point. Sorry.

I'll keep on working on this concept, my idea was to try to make people mainly focus on the answers, without needing much of the actual question, since a lot of times long questions were an issue.
 
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