| Exceptional Quality | State | Extra Trivia |
| ...with an automobile on its commemorative State Quarter? | |
| ...to have multiple native sons immortalized atop Mount Rushmore? | |
| ...with different designs on either side of its State Flag? | |
| ...where less than 26% of its citizens identify themselves as White/Caucasian? | |
| ...whose official State Motto is in Spanish? | |
| ...to have a Unicameral Legislature? | |
| ...that has no law requiring seatbelts for adults in automobiles? | |
| ...to include a noncontiguous parcel of land completely surrounded by two other states? | |
| ...to be represented by an African-American Senator prior to the 20th Century? | |
| ...to host a Confederate President's inauguration? | |
| ...with a state capital of over a million people? | |
| ...whose median age is under 30 years old? | |
| ...to have two Federal Reserve Banks? | |
| ...with a state-wide ban on the carrying of concealed firearms? | |
| ...whose three largest cities begin with the same letter? | |
| ...whose name has no letters in common with that of its capital? | |
| ...in which diamonds are mined? | |
| ...whose name appears in another state's most populous city? | |
| ...to contain more than one Ivy League school? | |
| ...to have a state-owned bank? | |
| ...whose current State Capitol building predates the revolution? | |
| ...to have a higher population density than Puerto Rico? | |
| ...whose two biggest cities have lent their names to a Tony-winning musical and an Oscar-winning film, respectively? | |
| ...where a nuclear weapon was exploded prior to the bombing of Japan? | |
| ...to have divorce laws written into its Constitution? | |