The Russian calendar was 13 days behind ours. Camel hair brushes are made from squirrel fur. Their Genoese discoverers named them Insularia Canaria , Islands of the Dogs. He respected Queen Victoria's wish that no future English king should be named Albert, so he changed his name. The purple finch is distinctively crimson.
Chinese gooseberries come from New Zealand.
The Thirty Years' War lasted 30 years, of course. Alaska is the easternmost state. You may have assumed you had to choose between New York and Maine, but the question asks which is the easternmost state in the United States. And Alaska reaches across into the Eastern Hemisphere. There is none.