Out on a date without an adult watching over you
unchaperoned
"Look at me--I'm the captain now"
Captain Phillips
This fowl character was convinced the sky was falling after being hit on the head with an acorn
Chicken Little
"The Bodyguard" star's troubled message to mission control from Apollo 13
Whitney Houston, we have a problem
It's alphabetically first
Arizona
General term for a 19th century U.S. antislavery advocate
abolitionist
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash"
Walk the Line
This Republican Party slogan from 1928 also mentioned "a car in every backyard"
"a chicken in every pot"
E.T.'s yearning spoken desire to dial up Tim Allen's TV show
Phone Home Improvement
Word shared in the name of 2 of the 27
Dakota
Visually not the same on both sides of a central line
"Your final answer for 20 million rupees"
Slumdog Millionaire
There are no water or electric utilities in the town of Chicken in this state, but mail comes by plane twice a week
Alaska
Fairy tale in which a girl's royalty is tested when she sleeps atop 20 mattresses & a double-breasted outer garment
The Princess and the Pea Coat
It's the largest in area
Montana
A flaw, as in a diamond
imperfection
"I wish I knew how to quit you"
Brokeback Mountain
Ben Vereen's role in "Roots"
Chicken George
Red yarn-haired doll who served as Texas governor from 1991 to 1995
Raggedy Ann Richards
The westernmost
Nevada
Quality of being unprejudiced & objective
impartiality
"Silly Caucasian girl likes to play with samurai swords"
Kill Bill
It's a series of lunches or dinners that politicians feel compelled to attend
the rubber chicken circuit
Old West outlaw who takes a trip to the Big Apple in a fuzzy fruit in a Roald Dahl book
Jesse James and the Giant Peach
Bordering a Great Lake but no ocean, it was the first on the list to become a state
Pennsylvania