Trivia Game # 47 - Week 1

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 47 - Week 1

Time to begin a new game. New players are welcome to join the game at any time, but the first week of any game is always an especially good time.

Here are the questions for week 1 of Game # 47

1. This future Governor of Alabama was a leader of a famous charge at Gettysburg and later lost an arm near Petersburg. He would not attain the rank of General till the Spanish-American War. Name him.

2. What was the name of the family plantation which was the birthplace of the Queen of the Confederacy?

3. This New England native was born in 1836. During the Civil War his company produced and sold a small portable set of games intended for use by Union soldiers in their idle hours. What was his name?

4. What now well known resort town was, from May 6th to July 14th 1862, the location of it’s state’s capital, when the government (and much of it’s population) fled the existing capital in fear of the rumored approach of Union troops? Give the name of the town and the state.

5. What Pennsylvania sports venue was named for a Brevet Brigadier general who lost his right leg in an August 1864 battle in Virginia. Give the name of the sports venue and the full name of
the general.


Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, July 21. Good hunting for answers, and good luck!

[Dred]

1. William Calvin Oates
2. Holcombe cotton plantation INCORRECT
3. Milton Bradley
4. Baton Rouge Louisiana INCORRECT
5. James Addams Beaver Beaver Stadium
Found at http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/bah/dam/...r.asp?secid=31
This says he was a brevet brig gen, he did lose his right leg, but it seems he lost it in NC not in VA, closest I could find tho Park is at Penn State

[cw1865]

• This future Governor of Alabama was a leader of a famous charge at Gettysburg and later lost an arm near Petersburg. He would not attain the rank of General till the Spanish-American War. Name him.

William Calvin Oates, Colonel (googled)

2. What was the name of the family plantation which was the birthplace of the Queen of the Confederacy?

Westover of Woodstock (knew this one but had to google it anyway just to make sure)

3. This New England native was born in 1836. During the Civil War his company produced and sold a small portable set of games intended for use by Union soldiers in their idle hours. What was his name?

Milton Bradley (didn’t ‘KNOW’ this one, but it was the first name that came to mind)

4. What now well known resort town was, from May 6th to July 14th 1862, the location of it’s state’s capital, when the government (and much of it’s population) fled the existing capital in fear of the rumored approach of Union troops? Give the name of the town and the state.

Opelousas, Louisiana (knew it was Louisiana, didn’t know the town) INCORRECT

5. What Pennsylvania sports venue was named for a Brevet Brigadier general who lost his right leg in an August 1864 battle in Virginia. Give the name of the sports venue and the full name of
the general.

James A. Beaver? (Governor of Pennsylvania)
(googled it but my search doesn’t completely match your question criteria so it could be wrong), found it because if you get a stadium you’re probably a governor. ACCEPTABLE (In the future please be more specific. Don't answer a question with a question mark - and since you used the word "stadium" in your extended reply, I'll accept it, but in the future give your answers explicitly as the questions call for. Also explanations of how you found the answers are not necessary.)

[Blockaderunner]

1) William Calvin Oates

2) Holcombe Plantation INCORRECT

3) Milton Bradley

4) Opelousas, Mississippi INCORRECT

5) Franklin Field, William Buel Franklin INCORRECT

[ole]

1. This future Governor of Alabama was a leader of a famous charge at Gettysburg and later lost an arm near Petersburg. He would not attain the rank of General till the Spanish-American War. Name him.

William Calvin Oates.

2. What was the name of the family plantation which was the birthplace of the Queen of the Confederacy?

Westover of Woodstock.

3. This New England native was born in 1836. During the Civil War his company produced and sold a small portable set of games intended for use by Union soldiers in their idle hours. What was his name?

Milton Bradley.

4. What now well known resort town was, from May 6th to July 14th 1862, the location of it’s state’s capital, when the government (and much of it’s population) fled the existing capital in fear of the rumored approach of Union troops? Give the name of the town and the state.

Fled Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Opelousas, Louisiana.

INCORRECT

5. What Pennsylvania sports venue was named for a Brevet Brigadier general who lost his right leg in an August 1864 battle in Virginia. Give the name of the sports venue and the full name of the general.

James A. Beaver; Beaver Stadium is on the campus of Pennsylvania State University.

[Susan Sweet]

Sam do I post the answers here ? Yes, this is the place.

[Susan Sweet]

Here are the questions for week 1 of Game # 47

1. This future Governor of Alabama was a leader of a famous charge at Gettysburg and later lost an arm near Petersburg. He would not attain the rank of General till the Spanish-American War. Name him.Colonel William C. Oates

2. What was the name of the family plantation which was the birthplace of the Queen of the Confederacy?plantation named Woodstock, near La Grange, Tennessee.

3. This New England native was born in 1836. During the Civil War his company produced and sold a small portable set of games intended for use by Union soldiers in their idle hours. What was his name? Milton Bradley

4. What now well known resort town was, from May 6th to July 14th 1862, the location of it’s state’s capital, when the government (and much of it’s population) fled the existing capital in fear of the rumored approach of Union troops? Give the name of the town and the state.Confederate state government decided to abandon Baton Rouge, moving first to Opelousas
Louisiana INCORRECT
5. What Pennsylvania sports venue was named for a Brevet Brigadier general who lost his right leg in an August 1864 battle in Virginia. Give the name of the sports venue and the full name of
the general. General James A. Beaver Beaver Stadium is located on the campus of The Pennsylvania State University and is home to their college football team, the Nittany Lions.

[sockknitter]

1. William C. Oates
2. Woodstock
3. Milton Bradley
4. incorrect YES,INCORECT (but so were every other player)
5. incorrect YES, INCORRECT

[samgrant]

First of all. I want to thank all of you for playing the game this week, most of you new players, and I hope you all will continue to play. As you know this is my first week doing the game, so I was somewhat apprehensive about the outcome, but with the exception of the fact that several 'regular' players did not play this week (maybe on vacation?), I think, for the most part (except #4) things worked out fairly well.

The answers to the questions for week 1:

1. William Calvin Oates

2. Woodstock was the name of the plantation. Westover is the name of the house/residence. So the Pickens home was called “Westover of Woodstock”.

One website I found erroneously stated that the name of the plantation was “Westover of Woodstock” (darn it!), so I'll accept that, another website further perverted this into "plantation, named Westover or Woodstock" and another apparently copied from this, so I also would have had to accept “Westover“ as the name of the plantation.



3. Milton Bradley

4. Hot Springs, Arkansas

This one absolutely broke my heart! I thought most every player would get this as there were only 11 state capitals to choose from and because I gave the specific dates, and, at least to me, 'resort town' in the South almost screams Hot Springs. Well you fooled me, but I wasn't trying to fool you. If anyone had done an 'exact phrase' search (at Google or whatever) on "May 6 to July 14", they would have had the answer in their pocket. I added the "th"s to those dates because it would have made it too easy not to have. (I do give all the information needed to find the answers, but I try not to embed exact searchable phrases that would point directly to the answers the questions, so it's a matter of how one uses that information to search for the answer. Be imaginative.)

Here's a couple of sources for this:

http://www.nps.gov/hosp/historycultu...nology.web.pdf

http://encyclopediaofarkansas.net/en...px?entryID=770



5. Beaver Stadium at Pennsylvania State University was named for James Addams Beaver (that explains why the Nittany Lions play in a stadium named after a Beaver).


A few words about this weeks' answers:

1) Always try to verify your information with a second or third source. Player Dred had the correct answer to #1, but his source erroneously places the Battle of Ream's Station in North Carolina while it took place in Dinwiddie County, Virginia not far from Petersburg.

2) Please give specific answers (see my note to cw1865, above), and be sure you know exactly what type of answer(s) is/are required by the question. I'm gonna be a Judge Roy Bean about answers in the future!

3) There is no premium for submitting your answers early. Take your time, you've got all week.

4) See my commentary for question #4 about my not embedding directly seachable phrases in the questions.



The scores at the end of Week 1:

FIRST DIVISION

no players this week!

SECOND DIVISION

cw1865 - 4
ole - 4
Susan_Sweet - 4
Dred - 3
sockknitter - 3
Blockaderunner - 2



Thanks again. See you next week!

sam