| Exceptional Quality | State | Extra Trivia |
| ...with a community-owned major league professional sports team? | |
| ...where less than 25% of its citizens identify themselves as White/Caucasian? | |
| ...whose two biggest cities have lent their names to a Tony-winning musical and an Oscar-winning film, respectively? | |
| ...whose official State Motto is in Spanish? | |
| ...to lie entirely above 1,000 meters elevation? | |
| ...where a nuclear weapon was exploded prior to the bombing of Japan? | |
| ...to have a state-owned bank? | |
| ...to border more than two Great Lakes? | |
| ...with a state-wide ban on the carrying of concealed firearms? | |
| ...whose name appears in another state's most populous city? | |
| ...whose official name is more than four words long? | |
| ...whose official state seal is not circular? | |
| ...to produce two US Presidents whose sons also became Presidents? | |
| ...to be admitted to the Union under a President Roosevelt? | |
| ...to have two Federal Reserve Banks? | |
| ...that allows residents to vote from outer space? | |
| ...to host three modern Olympic Games? | |
| ...that has 'parishes' instead of counties? | |
| ...whose current State Capitol building predates the revolution? | |
| ...to have divorce laws written into its Constitution? | |
| ...to have multiple native sons immortalized atop Mount Rushmore? | |
| ...where prostitution is legal? | |
| ...to border the Canadian province of New Brunswick? | |
| ...never to cast an electoral vote for Ronald Reagan? | |
| ...to host a Confederate President's inaguaration? | |