Memorize these and you could recognize 13.3% of all Nicknames clues.
| # | Answer | Appearances | Sample Clue |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Virginia | 9 | It's called the "Mother of Presidents" because 8 of our chief executives were born there |
| 2 | Pennsylvania | 8 | Perhaps its center spot in the arch of the original 13 states got it dubbed the Keystone State |
| 3 | New Orleans | 7 | A Yat, as in "Where y'at?", is a person from this Southern U.S. city |
| 4 | Nebraska | 7 | Home of Arbor Day & J. Stanley Morton, this plains state is "The Tree Planters State" |
| 5 | Georgia | 7 | "The Goober State" |
| 6 | Florida | 7 | "The Everglade State" |
| 7 | Maryland | 6 | "The Star-Spangled Banner State" |
| 8 | Louisiana | 6 | "The Creole State" |
| 9 | Hawaii | 6 | "The Aloha State" |
| 10 | Colorado | 6 | "The Centennial State" |
| 11 | Napoleon | 5 | "The Little Corporal" |
| 12 | Annie Oakley | 5 | Sitting Bull nicknamed her "Little Sure Shot" |
| 13 | Alaska | 5 | "Seward's Icebox" |
| 14 | the Spartans | 5 | Michigan State's "no-frills" nickname, it's Greek to me |
| 15 | Utah | 4 | It's the "Land of the Mormons" |
| 16 | Leo Durocher | 4 | Baseball's "The Lip" |
| 17 | Indiana | 4 | Dan Quayle would know that this state calls itself "The Crossroads of America" |
| 18 | California | 4 | The discovery of gold in 1848 gave rise to this state's nickname, "The Golden State" |
| 19 | Calamity Jane | 4 | Martha Jane Cannary, she's buried in Deadwood, South Dakota next to "Wild Bill" Hickok |
| 20 | Arkansas | 4 | The Razorbacks |
| 21 | Arizona | 4 | "The Apache State" |
| 22 | Alabama | 4 | Crimson Tide |
| 23 | the Tigers | 4 | Missouri. Princeton. or Bengal |
| 24 | the Cowboys | 4 | America's Team, in the '70s |
| 25 | Salem, Massachusetts | 4 | It's America's "City of Witches" |
| 26 | Harry Houdini | 4 | "The Handcuff King" |
| 27 | Thoreau | 3 | 19th century American essayist known as "The Concord Rebel" & "The Poet Naturalist" |
| 28 | the Trojans | 3 | Troy State & the University of Southern California |
| 29 | Stan Musial | 3 | "Stan the Man" |
| 30 | San Francisco | 3 | "Baghdad by the Bay", according to Herb Caen |
| 31 | Rome | 3 | Eternal traffic jams seem to be an eternal feature of life in this "Eternal City" |
| 32 | Rhode Island | 3 | All 5 counties in this "Ocean State" have direct water access to the Atlantic |
| 33 | Pete Rose | 3 | "Charlie Hustle" |
| 34 | Patton | 3 | The soldiers' definition of his nickname was "his guts; our blood" |
| 35 | P.T. Barnum | 3 | 19th century impresario called "The Prince of Humbugs" |
| 36 | New Hampshire | 3 | Referring to the extensive quarries there, it's "the Granite State" |
| 37 | Kansas | 3 | Occupying center position in U.S., this "Sunflower State" is sometimes called "navel of the nation" |
| 38 | Jimmy Durante | 3 | "Schnozzola" |
| 39 | Dwight Gooden | 3 | "Dr. K" |
| 40 | Detroit | 3 | Though Motown Records is now in L.A., "Motown" itself refers to this city |
| 41 | Catherine the Great | 3 | Empress known as "The Little Mother of All the Russias" |
| 42 | Alexander Hamilton | 3 | After introducing the coinage of copper pennies, he became known as "Alexander the Coppersmith" |
| 43 | Wales | 2 | "Land Of The Leek" |
| 44 | Ulysses S. Grant | 2 | "Hero of Appomattox" |
| 45 | Turtle | 2 | On "Entourage", entrepreneur Salvatore Vacara |
| 46 | Tom Seaver | 2 | "Tom Terrific" |
| 47 | Tina Turner | 2 | This singer who appeared in "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome" was born Annie Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tenn. |
| 48 | Thomas Edison | 2 | The nickname "The Wizard of Menlo Park" was invented for him |
| 49 | the Rough Riders | 2 | Nickname in 1898 of the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry |
| 50 | the Falcons | 2 | Bowling Green & Air Force |