I expect this one will be pretty easy (as these things go), so get on it fast if you want props for the week.
Colorado, Connecticut, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, Mississippi, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming each have had only one.
One what?
Entirely a guess, but only one state flag?
Only one mention in this trivia question.
State constitution?
Oops. That idea fell apart the second I tried to verify it.
Vice-President?
Indiana has had a bunch.
Yeah, Texas too.
One capital letter in their names.
You can search for Hall-of-Famers by birth state at http://baseballhall.org/hall-famers
So that’s not it either.
Is it that have only had one state capitol?
or perhaps even capitals?
Thought of that, but I checked. Jackson wasn’t built until after Mississippi became a state.
World’s Fair?
This is the problem with you conservatives, the sweeping moral generalizations you make about the state of the world when it’s obvious that you climbed there on the backs of the less fortunate!
Hey, if Burt had chosen Oregon, New York, New Hampshire and Wisconsin I’d have been happy to go with World’s Run By Google.
Civil war generals?
Tuesday hint just about an hour early: Alaska, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Wisconsin, and West Virginia have had none. (Neither have any of the non-state parts of the U.S.A. like the District of Columbia or Guam, nor any other part of the world other than the United States.)
Each of the remaining 21 states has had more than one.
Supreme Court justices?
I think so, though it doesn’t quite match http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0101281.html. To get the desired answer, you have to mostly ignore birthplace (since several justices were born outside the US), but count Taft as an Ohioan, even though he was living in Connecticut at the time of his appointment.
That is the correct answer. Well, United States Supreme Court Justices, to be most precise, since each state has its own supreme court. But there’s only one SCOTUS.
My data was taken from that source of all critical (and, more importantly, easily-sortable) information, Wikipedia.
What astonishes me is that so many states like Connecticut, Florida, Missouri, and Texas — states with big populations, lots at stake politically, and substantial bodies of well-developed law — have produced so few lawyers and judges who have earned this elite honor. I suppose it’s no great surprise that New York has contributed the plurality, but it seems not quite so obvious to me that Ohio would be the #2 feeder state (as opposed to, say, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, or California).
Doesn’t surprise me one bit. I mean, they often went to schools like SMU, thinking it to be a real college and stuff. Hicks.