Rearrange the letters of CALIFORNIA to form
the name of a continent and an animal found there.

Name a state capital. Switch its first and last letters,
forming a new word which describes about half the people there.

The last four letters of which state name are
the first four letters of another state name ?

Name a state capital starting with T, and a state starting with T
which end in the same four letters.

Name a seven letter state capital.
Switch its third and fifth letters. Spell it backwards.
The result is the original name.

Break COLORADO into two groups of four letters. The first group will start a famous Colorado businessman's first name. The second group will start his last name. Who is he ?

Rearrange the seven letters of RALEIGH to make a two-word phrase that is something many women are constantly trying to get rid of.

What state's two-letter state postal abbreviation phonetically describes most of the state, population-wise?

Which state, together with its capital, contains four pairs of doubled letters?

(I submitted this one as well as the winning chain-of-states entry.)
Salem and Oregon, respectively, contain the letters of which famous person's first and last names ?