INDIANA
- Religious Freedom Restoration Act
- Jared Fogle (former Subway pitchman/sex offender)
IOWA
- Elizabeth Banks (actress)
- Bachelorette (reality TV show)
- The Bachelor (reality TV show)
KANSAS:
- World Series
- Koch Industries
KENTUCKY
- American Pharaoh (Triple Crown-winner)
- Dusty Rhodes (pro wrestler who passed away in 2015)
- Rand Paul (presidential candidate)
- Kim Davis (County Clerk of Rowan County)
LOUISIANA
- Ashley Madison hack (online dating website marketed to people in committed relationships that was hacked and had user names released in 2015)
- Blue Bell recall (delicious ice cream)
MAINE
- Amy Schumer (comedian)
MARYLAND
- New Horizons (space mission)
- Trevor Noah (new host of The Daily Show)
- Benjamin Netanyahu (Prime Minister of Israel)
- Freddie Gray (Baltimore man who died in police custody, sparking protests)
- Police brutality
- Misty Copeland (ballet dancer)
- Nuclear program of Iran
- Iran nuclear deal
- Moses Malone (basketball player who passed away in 2015)
- Loretta Lynch (newly appointed U.S. Attorney General)
- Real estate
- Edward Snowden (computer programmer, leaker of classified documents)
- Ta-Nehisi Coates (writer, journalist, educator)
- Viola Davis (Emmy Award-winning actress)
- Bill Cosby (comedian)
- al-Qaeda (terrorist organization)
- Don Lemon (CNN TV personality)
MASSACHUSETTS
- Charlie Hebdo (French satirical magazine attacked by terrorists in 2015)
- Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (TV show)
- Aziz Ansari (actor/comedian)
- Jon Snow (character in Game of Thrones)
- Opioid addiction and dependence
- Republican primary
- Eddie Redmayne (Academy Award-winning actor)
- Justin Trudeau (newly elected Prime Minister of Canada)
- John Oliver (comedian)
- Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (TV show)
- Inside Amy Schumer (TV show)
- Vladimir Putin (President of Russia)
- Dad bod
MICHIGAN
- What is transgender?
- Marriage equality
MINNESOTA
- Black Lives Matter (activist movement campaigning against violence toward black people)
- Scott Weiland (musician who passed away in 2015)
- Cecil the Lion (famous lion killed by a Minnesota hunter in Zimbabwe)
MISSISSIPPI
- Straight Outta Compton (2015 film)
- B.B. King (blues musician who passed away in 2015)
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Bobbi Kristina Brown (daughter of singer Whitney Houston; passed away in 2015)
- Booty (there was a lot of talk about “booty” in 2015)
- Megyn Kelly (FOX TV personality)
- Ashley Madison (online dating website marketed to people in committed relationships)
- Common Core State Standards Initiative
MISSOURI
- Amy Schumer photo
- Right to keep and bear arms
MONTANA
- Wolves
NEBRASKA
- Kaley Cuoco (actress)
