Monday Trivia #57
Three of the first ten presidents had or did this. It’s only true of one president since, and he wasn’t even elected.
Three of the first ten presidents had or did this. It’s only true of one president since, and he wasn’t even elected.
Frankly, I think there’s more than meets the eye with the statistics underlying this week’s list, but all the information comes from the government so who am I to question it? Anyway, the top ten nations on this week’s list… Continue Reading
Category A: Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia*, and Wisconsin. Category B: Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania*, and Rhode… Continue Reading
Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, DC, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming have more of these per-capita than the nation as a whole. The six states with… Continue Reading
Descenting order: Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Alabama, DC, North Carolina, Nebraska, Florida, Delaware, Tennessee, Iowa, Mississippi, Ohio, Hawaii, Wisconsin, Oregon, Minnesota, Vermont, North Dakota, Wyoming, Massachusetts, Indiana, Virginia, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, West Virginia, Texas, South Carolina, Georgia, California, Michigan,… Continue Reading
Another state ranking, though this time with territories: Alaska, Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Ohio, Utah, Florida, Tennessee, Indiana, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Illinois, West Virginia, Kentucky, Virginia, Michigan, Idaho, South Carolina, Mississippi, California, Maryland, New York, Montana, Arkansas,… Continue Reading
This is, these are, or doing this is banned in the following states: Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Texas, and Wisconsin This is, these are, or doing this is allowed, more-or-less unconditionally, in the following states: Colorado,… Continue Reading
Fourteen U.S. States have a distinction unshared by the remaining thirty-four. Those states are: Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
Alabama has the most of these with 15, followed by North Carolina with 10 and then Georgia and Texas with 9 each. Most states do not have any. The western-most is in Texas, the northern-most is in or around Detroit,… Continue Reading
Seventeen states — Alabama, Alaska, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Utah — lack something that the remainderĀ of the states in the U.S.A. possess. What is it?