I hadn’t thought of Sarah Chalke and Diana Muldaur until yesterday. I wasn’t sure about Chalke; I wasn’t a Roseanne watcher and from what I could find online it sounded like she shared the role with Goranson in the last couple seasons. And Muldaur is a bit of a fudge, since she didn’t play the same character as McFadden.
The only other name I could possibly add would be Hugh Downs. In 1960, Jack Paar walked out as host of The Tonight Show to protest when a joke of his was censored. He came back about a month later. Downs was host during the interim, but that isn’t terribly well known, and the question is hard enough already.
Constantine the Great is the only one on the list whose reign was immediately followed by that of one of his legitimate sons. (Olaf’s son Magnus succeeded him but was illegitimate. Charles had two sons who became King, but they had to wait for the Cromwell reign to play out.)
Minnesota is the only state that doesn’t have a second language, although I can’t quite get my slogan together, so I’m not sure I’m on the right track, and at any rate, the Spanish that is common in CA isn’t specific to California, even though it was very common there when California became a state.
Anyway, has it got anything to do with languages, dialects, or ethnicities?
What I had in mind has nothing to do with language or ethnicity. But now that you mention it, I have to admit that Hawaii is the only one whose motto is not in an Indo-European language and the only one in which the white/Caucasian population is a minority.
I didn’t think so — but having invested the effort to check those results, I had to post. :rolleyes:
The same thing happened to me more. California is the largest state by population; Alaska is the largest state by area; Minnesota has the most lakes. Am I close? So which lacks any superlative? Hawaii, among other superlatives, is the newest state.
I’ll guess Louisiana, though it has the highest sales tax. :smack:
The Admission of each of the other four states on the list led to a new flag authorization by Congress, with one more star than the previous flag. Louisiana, however, was bundled with four other new states to get a 20-star flag — all prior flags had 13 or 15 stars.
ETA: I strongly doubt that this is the intended answer either. :o
[QUOTE=Mr Zox]
[ul][li]Woodrow was his middle name; the others are known by their “real” first names.[/li][li]Stephen is the only one to be officially declared a saint.[/li][li]Oxygen is the only one not a solid at standard temperature and pressure.[/li][li]California is the only one that was never a territory.[/ul][/li][/QUOTE]
All excellent answers, Mr Zox! I’ll guess your California.not.Territory answer is indeed the intended answer — it’s much better than either solution I came up with.
I’m doubtful about Stephen, however. OP calls for a property all but one have; a negative property (“not being a Saint”) may be counter to the spirit.
Woodrow is a good answer but my intended answer was already given by bibliophage.
Finally, oxygen is an excellent answer but again not my intended answer. But all three answers given for that list are much better than my intended answer. :o (Hint: Tin was my intended answer, and not simply for having the largest atomic number though that’s an indirect hint.)
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Here’s a new list.
James Buchanan
John C. Calhoun
Henry Clay
Thomas Jefferson
George C. Marshall
William J. McKinley
Daniel Webster
Here’s another, relatively easy, to work on simultaneously. In this list, there are at least four good justifiable different odd men out. See how many you can get:
Cadillac El Dorado
Chevy Malibu
Chrysler Imperial
GMC Sonoma
Mercury Monterey
Sunbeam Alpine
Webster lost the only election he ran in. All the others were eventually elected to either president or vice president of the US.
Well, the Sonoma is a truck (it’s the S-10) while the others are all cars. I almost said the Alpine is the only two-seater, but I suppose technically the Sonoma is a two-seater, or at least, a non-backseater, because it doesn’t have an extended cab.
I’m thinking there might be something about the names, like all of the but one were called something else for the Canadian market. Also, I didn’t bother to check, but the Imperial may have had the longest production gap of any American car. It was first produced in the teens, and then ceased production in the 30s, only to start up again in the 90s. Is the Imperial the only one of the group that had a production gap?