These Are The Top Google Searches of 2015 By State

ALABAMA

• Same-sex marriage
• Ken Stabler (football player who passed away in 2015)
• Ben Carson (presidential candidate)
• Laverne Cox (actress)

 

ALASKA

• Barack Obama
• Game of Thrones (HBO series)
• 3D printing

 

ARIZONA

• 2nd Amendment
• Jen Welter (pro football player and first female coach in NFL)

 

ARKANSAS

• Blood moon prophecy (apocalyptic beliefs about the end of the world)
• Syrian refugees
• Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (terrorist organization)
• ISIS (another name for the same terrorist organization above)
• 19 Kids and Counting (reality TV show)
• Josh Duggar (reality TV show personality)

 

CALIFORNIA

• Kim Kardashian (reality TV personality)
• Stephen Curry (pro basketball player)
• Drought
• Water conservation
• Love wins
• U.S. Housing Bubble
• iPhone 6s
• Spy (2015 film)
• Spectre (2015 film)
• Ben Affleck nanny
• Leah Remini Scientology (actress who left the Church of Scientology in 2015)
• Chile earthquake
• Mark Zuckerberg (CEO of Facebook)
• Volkswagen scandal
• Donald Trump hair
• Donald Trump racist

 

COLORADO

• Syrian civil war
• Water on Mars
• Mass shootings
• Keystone Pipeline

 

CONNECTICUT

• Speaker of the House
• Frank Gifford (pro football player/broadcaster who passed away in 2015)

 

DELAWARE

• Amtrak
• Pope Francis
• Beau Biden (former Attorney General of Delaware who passed away in 2015)
• Kendrick Lamar (rapper)
• Nicki Minaj (rapper)

 

FLORIDA

• Obamacare
• Marco Rubio (presidential candidate)
• Concealed weapons permit
• Trump net worth
• House prices

 

GEORGIA

• Blood Moon 2015
• Whip dance
• Stanky leg dance
• Serena Williams
• Blake Shelton divorce

 

HAWAII

• Nepal earthquake
• Bruce Jenner (previous name of reality TV personality Caitlyn Jenner)
• Chrissy Teigen (model)
• Apple Watch
• Furious 7 (2015 film)
• Selfie stick
• Radio Shack (filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2015)
• Pitch Perfect 2 (2015 film)

 

IDAHO

• Refugees
• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (2015 film)
• Gun control
• Vaccines
• Windows 10 (operating system released in 2015)

 

ILLINOIS

• Super Blood Moon

 

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)

 

NEVADA

• Floyd Mayweather (pro boxer)
• Khloé Kardashian (reality TV personality)
• Lamar Odom (pro basketball player who overdosed in a Nevada brothel in 2015)
• Wes Craven (film director)
• Selena Gomez (actress)
• Kylie Jenner (reality TV personality)
• San Andreas (2015 film)
• Amber Rose (musician/model/actress/fashion designer)
• Pitbull (rapper)
• The Weeknd (musician)
• Britney Spears (musician),

 

NEW HAMPSHIRE

• Deflategate
• Heroin
• Paris terrorist attack
• Hillary Clinton (presidential candidate)
• Donald Trump (presidential candidate)
• Carly Fiorina (presidential candidate)
• Jeb Bush (presidential candidate)
• Ted Cruz (presidential candidate)
• Terrorism

 

NEW JERSEY

• FIFA (governing body of international soccer tournaments that’s being investigated for bribery/corruption crimes in 2015)
• Hilary Clinton email
• Yogi Berra (baseball player/manager who passed away in 2015)
• Chris Christie (presidential candidate)
• Pierre Paul hand (pro football player Jason Pierre-Paul who blew off part of his hand in a fireworks accident)

 

NEW MEXICO

• Pluto (the dwarf planet)
• Ronda Rousey (MMA fighter)
• Holly Holm (MMA fighter)
• Animas River (site of a massive 2015 spill of water containing toxic heavy metals)
• Wiz Khalifa (rapper)

 

NEW YORK

• Greece
• Democratic Socialism
• Omar Sharif (actor who passed away in 2015)
• Netanyahu Congress (Israeli Prime Minister who made a speech to Congress in 2015)
• Julianne Moore (actress)
• Mr. Robot (TV show)
• Angela Merkel (German Chancellor and Time “Person of the Year”)
• Drake (rapper)
• Martin Shkreli (CEO who dramatically raised prescription drug prices)
• Gigi Hadid (model)
• Bashar al-Assad (President of Syria)
• Islamophobia
• Charlie Sheen HIV (actor announced he’s had HIV for four years in 2015)
• Jihadism
• Jennifer Aniston wedding (actress married in 2015)
• American Apparel (clothing company that filed for bankruptcy in 2015)
• Kanye West (rapper)
• Rihanna (musician)
• Hoverboard scooter

 

NORTH CAROLINA

• Concealed carry permit
• Blake Miranda divorce (country stars Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert announced they were divorcing in 2015)
• Confederate flag meaning

 

NORTH DAKOTA

• NFL Draft

 

OHIO

• Marijuana legalization (a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize marijuana was not approved by voters in 2015)
• Anna Duggar (wife of reality TV personality Josh Duggar)
• Randy Quaid (actor)

 

OKLAHOMA

• Je suis Charlie (solidarity message for French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo)
• Stuart Scott (ESPN sportscaster who passed away in 2015)
• Caitlyn Jenner (reality TV personality formerly known as Bruce Jenner)
• Patricia Arquette (actress),
• Jordan Spieth (pro golfer who won the U.S. Open and The Masters in 2015)

 

OREGON

• Syria
• Iran
• Hassan Rouhani (President of Iran)
• Tamasha (2015 film)
• Islam
• Ukraine
• Nicky Jam (musician)
• Shakira (Musician)
• Dilma Rousseff (President of Brazil)

 

PENNSYLVANIA

• Jon Snow dead (character from Game of Thrones who died in the Season 5 finale… or did he?)
• Pope Francis visit
• War on terror
• Dick Van Patten (Eight is Enough actor who passed away in 2015),
• Creed (2015 film)
• Carrie Underwood baby
• Royal baby
• Blake Lively baby

 

RHODE ISLAND

• Brian Williams (NBC journalist suspended for telling an exaggerated story)
• Adele (musician)
• Taylor Swift (musician)
• Justin Bieber (musician)
• Charlie Sheen (actor)
• Wet Seal (clothing company that filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy in 2015)
• Ariana Grande (musician)
• Tom Brady (pro football player)

 

SOUTH CAROLINA

• Charleston shooting
• Trump for President
• Nae nae dance
• Confederate flag

 

SOUTH DAKOTA

• Back to the Future (popular 1985 movie that got a lot of attention because the characters in it travel to the future—the year 2015).
• Ed Sheeran (musician)
• Fitbit (a device that measures how many steps you take between your sofa and the fridge)

 

TENNESSEE

• Fred Thompson (former actor and Tennessee Senator who passed away in 2015)
• National Rifle Association

 

TEXAS

• James Harden (basketball player)
• Bandidos Motorcycle Club (a motorcycle gang that engaged in a massive shootout with the Cossacks motorcycle gang in Waco, Texas in 2015)
• Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán (Mexican drug lord)
• Hurricane Patricia
• Clock boy (14-year-old Texas student Ahmed Mohamed who was arrested after bringing a homemade clock to school)
• Planned Parenthood video
• Lion hunting
• Miranda Lambert divorce
• Jade Helm (a popular conspiracy theory that claims the annual U.S. military training exercise was really a cover for a full-scale invasion of Texas)
• Filibuster
• Greg Hardy (pro football player)

 

UTAH

• Transgender
• Man bun (male hair style)
• Spotify (digital music service)
• Apple TV
• Star Wars: The Force Awakes (2015 film)
• Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015 film)
• Jurassic World (2015 film)
• Ant-Man (2015 film)
• Planned Parenthood (non-profit organization)
• Sister Wives (TV show)

 

VERMONT

• Bernie Sanders (presidential candidate)
• The Daily Show (TV show)
• Climate change
• 87th Academy Awards

 

VIRGINIA:

• Abdel Fattah el-Sis (President of Egypt)
• Islamic State (terrorist organization)
• Boko Haram (terrorist organization)
• Recep Taytip Erdogan (President of Turkey),
• Muhammadu Buhari (President of Nigeria),
• Narendra Modi (Prime Minister of India)

 

WASHINGTON

• Leonard Nimoy (actor who played Spock on Star Trek passed away in 2015)
• Super Bowl
• Amanda Knox (American woman acquitted of murder in Italy)
• Left Shark
• Mad Max: Fury Road (2015 film)
• Microsoft Surface (tablet)

 

WEST VIRGINIA

• Magic Mike XXL (2015 film)

 

WISCONSIN

• Rep. Paul Ryan (newly elected Speaker of the House)
• What does bae mean?
• Koch brothers
• Political activities of the Koch brothers

 

WYOMING

• Mars (4th planet from the sun)
• U.S. Constitution
• Blake Shelton + Gwen Stefani
• Firearm
• Playboy (magazine that announced it would cease showing photos of naked women)
• AR-15 (type of firearm)