| Hint | State |
| ...has a population of under 600,000 people? | |
| ... did not allow the sale of liquor 'by the drink' (on-premises) until the 1980s? | |
| ...has a commercial tea plantation? | |
| ...has more than three 'a's in its name? | |
| ...has had the flags of six different nations fly over it? | |
| ...is thirteen letters (with no spaces)? | |
| ...begins with two vowels? | |
| ...is named after a present-day foreign country? | |
| ...is named after a US president? | |
| ...has a name that comes from French words? | |
| ...has legal prostitution? | |
| ...has a capital that begins with 'f'? | |
| ...is home to the American crocodile? | |
| ...is in the top nine in terms of population, but does not have a team in all of the Big Four sports leagues? | |
| ...consists entirely of two peninsulas? | |
| ...contains the Mississippi River and borders Canada? | |
| ...has parishes instead of counties? | |
| ...does not share a single letter with its capital? | |
| ...turned down the Olympics? | |
| ...has two pairs of four of the same letter in its name? | |
| ...refused to send delegates to the Constitutional Convention? | |
| ...is not located in continental North America? | |
| ...formerly had four Big Four teams but no longer has any? | |
| ...contains a 'z' in its name? | |
| ...touches the Ohio, Missouri, and Mississippi Rivers, in addition to the Great Lakes? | |