Trivia Game # 60 - Week 6

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 60 - Week 6



Here are the questions for Week 6 of Game # 60



1. Memorial Day

A Latin phrase from a Roman poet appears on the entrance to the site of The Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery. The same phrase appears on a medal which is named for a Civil War general who is buried at Arlington, the only American buried there whose grave is marked by a horse-mounted rider. Give the complete Latin phrase or its English translation.




2. What officer who was killed in the war had most recently graduated first in his West Point class?




3. Though he did not enter the war till June 1862, he saw a lot of action. His first wound came at Second Manassas; he was slightly wounded at Gettysburg, lost some fingers at Petersburg, wounded in the leg at Opequon, then in the leg and in the chest at Cedar Creek. He received over a half dozen brevets during the war. At the end of the war he held four separate and different ranks. Post-war, he remained in the army and fought Indians during which time he received his seventh wound while in U.S. service, in the form of a Comanche arrow to his thigh. He retired at the rank of brigadier general in 1884. Name him.




4. In April, 1876, the force of nature did what Ulysses Grant’s army had tried but failed to do 13 years earlier. What did it do?




5. Full Circle (A Reb this time!)

He was a physician/baseball player. Before the war he played first-base for the Brooklyn Excelsior baseball club. In 1862, he volunteered for the Confederate army and served as a surgeon. When his Northern clubmates found out, they expelled him from the team. (Some sources indicate that a doctor with a similar name, who had graduated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, City of New York (Columbia College), practiced at Fair Ground Hospital and Roy Hospital, both in Atlanta, Georgia, and that he served with the 9th Kentucky Cavalry regiment.) Name him.



Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, May 30. Good Luck!



We will take a week off, then begin Game #61 on June 6.
Then we'll have 3 weeks of questions before I take a "vacation", then 3 weeks of questions after I return (hopefully refreshed and inspired). I'll post details later.

[samgrant]

After review, I have changed the question in #4 from "What was it?" to "What did it do?".

[Larry]

1) Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
or as they say in English "It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country."
2) John R. Miegs - Class of '63
3) Randal Slidell Mackinzie - Class of '62
4) The Mississippi river changed its course. (close enough?)
5) Aleck T. Pearsall
Larry Gebing
Have a good trip!

[lauren777]

1) “It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country”
2) Patrick Henry O'Rorke INCORRECT
3) Ranald S. Mackenzie
4) "Ole Man River" cut across DeSoto Peninsula, breaking DeSoto Point and destroying what was left of the Vicksburg, Shreveport & Texas railroad terminal and ferry. This break effectively cut off the east-west rail line. More importantly, it left the river port of Vicksburg with no river.
5) DR. A. T. Pearsall

[sarladaise]

1. "Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori."
2. Patrick H. O'Rorke INCORRECT
3. Ranald Slidell MacKenzie
4. It changed the course of the Mississippi River and left Vicksburg
high and dry
5. Aleck T. Pearsall


Paris was great, but didn't see sockknitter there...

[Oxkern]

1. Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori

2. Patrick Henry O'Rorke INCORRECT

3. Ranald Slidell Mackenzie

4. Flooding cut off access by rail and river to Vicksburg

5. Aleck T. Pearsall

[hoosier]

1. E pluribus unum INCORRECT

2. James Birdseye McPherson (1853) INCORRECT

3. no idea INCORRECT

4. The Mississippi River cut through De Soto Point opposite Vicksburg.

5. Aleck T. Pearsall

[sockknitter]

1. "DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORI"
2. Patrick O’Rorke INCORRECT
3. Ranald “Bad Hand” MacKenzie
4. The Mississipi changed its course and cut off Vicksburg’s river and rail traffic
5. Aleck Pearsall

[hoosier]

I found an answer to question 3, so would like to replace my earlier post with this one.

1. E pluribus unum INCORRECT

2. James Birdseye McPherson (1853) INCORRECT


3. Ranald Slidell Mackenzie

4. The Mississippi River cut through De Soto Point opposite Vicksburg.

5. Aleck T. Pearsall

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 6 of Game #60:
　
　
1. “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori” or “it is sweet and fitting to die for your country”.
　
http://members.tripod.com/~Rob_4th_Maine/kearny.html
　
http://howardlanham.tripod.com/linkgr4/link184.html
　
http://civilwartalk.com/Resource_Center/US/Union_Insignia/united-states-historical-medals-a126.html
　
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dulce_et_decorum_est_pro_patria_mori

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/Visitor_information/amphitheater.html
http://awesometalks.wordpress.com/2009/05/22/mistaken-identity-the-arlington-memorial-amphitheater/
　
http://galleries.fototagger.com/link.php?action=detailimage&id=522&sort=3
　
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.org/images/anc_surroundings/pages/image15.html
　
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?GRid=1912&page=gr
　
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_equestrian_statues_in_the_United_States#Ar lington.2C_Virginia




2. John Rodgers Meigs (class of 1863)
　
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/jrmeigs.htm
　
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rodgers_Meigs
　
http://books.google.com/books?id=yYo4AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA109&dq=%22john+r.+meigs %22+west+point
　
http://www.flickr.com/photos/10264053@N02/1135426906/page2/
　
http://tourmarm.blogspot.com/2007/03/wordless-wednesday-6.html
　
http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=15140

So many of you answered O'Rorke that I had to go back and make sure I had the correct info and that the question was properly worded. I did and it was.

(It is interesting that the firsts from the '61, '62, and '63 classes were so notable. Need to go back to McPherson in '53 for someone of interest, unless you count G.W. C. Lee - '54, who is mostly notable for being the son of you know who!)




3. Ranald Slidell MacKenzie
　
http://www.freerepublic.com/~ranaldsmackenzie/
　
http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/MM/fma7.html
　
http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/Biographies/BiosRanaldSlidellMackenzie.htm
　
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7462904
　
http://americanhistory.si.edu/westpoint/history_4a3.html
　
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranald_S._Mackenzie
　
http://books.google.com/books?id=epbbg1CA4CAC&pg=PA215&lpg=PA215&dq=macken zie+wounded+%22bull+run%22&source=bl&ots=d-3tPxoGLy&sig=HStO7QD1nHq2M_l1UUQYT1sHtO8&hl=en&ei= KggHSsShNI28M6_t3aID&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result &resnum=6

http://books.google.com/books?id=2PSgcaLic-AC&pg=PR17&dq=%22separate+and+distinct+ranks%22
　
http://books.google.com/books?id=Fs0Ajlnjl6AC&pg=PA359&dq=%22mackenzie,+ra nald+slidell%22&lr
　
http://books.google.com/books?id=2PSgcaLic-AC&pg=PA301&dq=Ranald+Slidell+Mackenzie+was+born+i n+Westchester+County
　
https://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/bookdisplay.aspx?bookid=394

http://books.google.com/books?id=LTPh5aWnG7AC&pg=PA73&lpg=PA73&dq=mackenzi e+blanco+canyon+%22Comanche+arrow%22&source=bl&ots =VgNMQnjUYv&sig=Z_rSZ4ckHcYjnMviyjzpWl7DibE&hl=en& ei=oBUHSqmlBJvOMZPN1NsI&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=res ult&resnum=2
　
(More trivia on MacKenzie: He was the nephew of the Trent Affair’s John Slidell. He was 1st in his 1862 class at West Point. He was considered one of the “saviors of Little Round top”. He was an in-law to P. G. T. Beauregard, who was , for a time, his superintendent at West Point. A short lived 1950’s TV program (Mackenzie’s Raiders) was very loosely based on his post Civil War service in the West.)

(Looks like I gave too many clues!)




4. Cut a channel across the Desoto peninsula in order to bypass Vicksburg.
　
http://web.vicksburg.org/vicksburg/History/tabid/73/Default.aspx
　
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~holler/vbghist.htm
　
http://historyiselementary.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html
　
http://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2005SE/finalprogram/abstract_83087.htm
　
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant's_Canal
　
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lamadiso/articles/canals.htm

I wish I could have found a way to pose this question in a way which would have elicited the desired answer. I decide it was too vague, so even the vague answers recieved are OK.




5. A. T. Pearsall
　
http://files.usgwarchives.org/ga/unknown/history/other/rosterof597gms.txt
　
http://books.google.com/books?id=wCZMNDkMbNAC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=pearsa ll+%22Roy+hospital%22&source=bl&ots=mdyK57yo7y&sig =lpIBax7e3_cgjblJue7TB4iPrhM&hl=en&ei=RUvZSdvsPI_I MtiU_P8O&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1
　
http://books.google.com/books?id=c_kRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA229&lpg=PA229&dq=%22and rew+t.+pearsall%22&source=bl&ots=hA6b1u7h94&sig=dq LsmmoVTtppbJJ3hIRC6o9sXT4&hl=en&ei=vUzZSZi3L5S-M8ue7OEO&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3
　
http://www.civilwar.nps.gov/cwss/regiments.cfm (Confederate, Kentucky, 9, Cavalry)
　
http://www.19cbaseball.com/image-brooklyn-excelsiors-1860.html
　
http://books.google.com/books?id=2upr3cKcMfsC&pg=PA31&dq=pearsall+%22a+suc cessful+physician%22

http://mobile.history.com/hots/detail.jsp?key=119022&rc=catsprt&catalog=hots_poi& search=false
　
http://www.strictlyfitteds.com/blog/2008/07/baseball-cap-history/
　
http://books.google.com/books?id=H4qOXgcdTaUC&pg=PA29&lpg=PA29&dq=%22aleck +pearsall%22&source=bl&ots=Lhel4eYyjS&sig=__0OYwgv xXDLYUQ9TWuWbMB9YjM&hl=en&ei=cjUYStCBH4usMu6zuZ4P& sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3

http://books.google.com/books?id=HBv...esult&resnum=6
　
　
http://books.google.com/books?id=H4qOXgcdTaUC&pg=PA34&lpg=PA34&dq=baseball +confederate+%22aleck+pearsall%22&source=bl&ots=Lh el4e_wm-&sig=_Q95zZmzOzTJ9RlnwPTDw40WV70&hl=en&ei=oDwYSoXV M6SgM5P03JgP&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum= 1
　
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2003/4/2003_4_11.shtml
　
　
http://bioproj.sabr.org/bioproj.cfm?a=v&bid=770&pid=0
　
http://books.google.com/books?id=cdkTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA213&dq=%22andrew+T.+Pea rsall%22

http://books.google.com/books?id=HBv10IFj-FoC&pg=PA116&dq=%22aleck+pearsall%22
　
http://www.archive.org/stream/bluegraysketches00aust/bluegraysketches00aust_djvu.txt

Since it is possible that there are two distinct A. T. Pearsalls, I was unsure if I should use the question.
But it is really a mystery. Was "Aleck" T. also Andrew
T. ? The book 'Baseball in Blue and Gray' refers to him first as A.T. Pearsall, then later puts Aleck in quotes as if it was a nickname. Can it be a simple coincidence that there were 2 different A. T. Pearsalls from New York who became Confederate doctors?

What do you think, same guy or 2 different guys? (reply on this thread)



Congrats to Larry for finding young Meigs for a perfect score this week.



Here are the final scores for Game #60:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 23
natek1029 - 9
Rad2duhbone53 - 0
Susan Sweet - 0


SECOND DIVISION

lauren777 - 28
Larry - 25
Oxkern - 23
Sockknitter - 21
Hoosier - 16
kate_09 - 4


A big congratulations to lauren777 who gets the prize for game #60. (I will PM you shortly after I update the prize list.)

Reminder: Game #61 will start on June 6 to split the game into two 3 week sets of question bookending my vacation.


Thanks for playing. See you next week!