2: The musical references on this state's license plates changed from “Stars Fell On . . . “ to “Sweet Home” in 2009.
ALABAMA
4: Both the Northwest Territories and this territory that split off in 1999 issue polar bear-shaped license plates.
NUNAVUT
6: Two of the four states that, in 2009, issued license plates depicting Abraham Lincoln either by name, graphically, or both.
TWO OF KENTUCKY (though illegally), INDIANA, ILLINOIS, SOUTH DAKOTA
8: Celebrating 200 years of statehood in 1996, this state issued license plates with four letters in the word “bicentennial” capitalized and in a different font.
TENNESSEE
10: On this state's flag, the center of the Zia symbol is yellow and the sunbeams are red, while on the license plate the colors are reversed.
NEW MEXICO
WORLD LITERATURE
3: His book Twenty Years After is a collection of The D'Artagnan Romances, first serialized in 1845.
DUMAS
6: Over two decades elapsed between the publication of his first two novels, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” and “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.”
GOETHE
9: His debut novel, 1846's Poor Folk, earned this author of “Crime and Punishment” the nickname “the new Gogol.”
DOSTOYEVSKY
12: The fourth entry in this 1812 German anthology named for its authors was “The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was.”
BROTHERS GRIMM
15: This Russian poet dedicated his first major work “Ruslan and Ludmila” to the “queens of my soul.”
