Gingham’s the only one whose name isn’t sourced from a location.
Here’s one that’s like a Rorschach — there’s a reasonable way to make any of the six the odd man out. Top prize to the first good answer I didn’t think of.
Beijing
London
New York
Paris
Rome
Tokyo
For starters, three ways for New York: not a national capital, and never hosted the Olympics. And New York is the oly one that IS a seaport.
I’d noticed the first two during preparation. Not being a seaport will come as a surprise to London and Tokyo! London was once the largest seaport in the world.
Correct.
There’s no Beijing, TX. Not even with an alternate spelling.
Wow! I think you win a prize!
Only Beijing has changed its name in the past century. Twice. Three times. Four times.
Pekin => Peking => Peiping => Beiping => Beijing.
Technically, the city never changed its name-- just the way it’s spelled in the West changed.
Passover
Purim
Shavuot
Sukkot
Yom Kippur
Rosh Hashanah
Well, the period when it was Beiping was a change - the second character being changed from ‘capital’ to ‘peace’, for the period when it wasn’t the capital.
But, yeah…the b<->p and j<->k thing is just a matter of which transliteration is being used.
Rosh Hashanah
It’s the only one that can be sung to the tune of Oklahoma.
Two answers, but I’ll guess the 2nd was intended.
Passover — only holiday name shown in English
Purim — the other five holidays are among the Seven Feasts in Yahweh’s instruction to Moses.
(The Beta Israel of Ethiopia had no knowledge of Purim, a hint that their separation from the Jewish mainstream was very ancient.)
I thought of putting Pesach, but few non-Jews are familiar with the term, while religious Christians usually know what the other holidays are. I guess it’s the way Christian bibles are translated.
River running right through the middle of the city:
London: Thames.
New York: East. (Also Hudson if you count Upper Bay)
Paris: Seine.
Rome: Tiber.
Tokyo: Arakawa and Sumida.
Beijing: … again the odd man out. Chaobai and Wenyu may be inside city limits, but are outside of what appears to be the city center. The Tonghui and Nanchang Rivers seem to have been diverted into canals to keep the city center riverless.
Dang, I thought I’d found another one. But neither Beijing nor Paris has had a citywide fire.
New York was the only one that wasn’t bombed during WWII.
Dwight Eisenhower
Susan B. Anthony
Benjamin Franklin
Abraham Lincoln
ETA: And no, it’s not that Susan B. Anthony was a woman.
As far as I know, Franklin has never been on a U.S. coin. The others have, although you don’t see Eisenhower or Anthony dollars very often.
Franklin was on the half dollar from 1948 to 1963.