Trivia Game #27 - Week 1

1. In charge of the Bureau of Conscription

2. Swam the Ohio River

3. <strike>Just a guess. Jackson</strike>

4. Ewell

5. <strike>Once again, just a guess but it would not happen to be the ex-slave Carter would it?</strike>

(Message edited by Hoosier on November 13, 2004)

[hoosier]

OK, thanks to everybody for playing this first week.

The correct answers, as given to me by our esteemed webmaster, are as follows:

1. John Smith Preston was Superintendent of the Bureau of Conscription.

2. Johnson swam across the Ohio River.

3. Davis considered Albert Sidney Johnston as valuable as an army of 10,000 troops.

4. Richard Stoddert Ewell referred to his wife as "Mrs. Brown."

5. The last survivor of the Monitor crew was Thomas L. Taylor, who died on March 7, 1932 at the age of 84.

A couple of notes.

Felinelady posted her response twice, because she said she got an error message the first time. Both posts made it through (I deleted one of them), but I've noticed a similar problem from time to time when I try to make posts myself. If anyone isn't sure whether their post made it through, go ahead and post it again. Better to have the same post go through twice than to have no post go through at all.

Sockknitter went above and beyond the call of duty by posting not only her answers, but the sources. (I guess we'll have to award her an extra ration of virtual salt pork and hardtack.) It is not necessary to post your sources. HOWEVER - this goes for all players - if I have marked one of your answers wrong and you can find a source that says it is correct, please either send me a personal message or make another post, citing the source that supports your answer, and I will give you credit if I agree that your answer is adequately supported.

Aphillbilly, I'm very, very glad that you waited until late in the day on Saturday to post your responses. Apparently, because you are an official Civil War Talk moderator, your post appeared on the board immediately, instead of being sent to the queue with the responses of the other contestants. Had you posted earlier in the week, your answers would have been visible to all players. I'll have to ask Mike if some adjustment can be made so that doesn't happen again.

Here are the scores after the first week:

Sockknitter 6 points
Raggedrebel 5
Cindyscoops 5
Felinelady 4
Dawna 4
Traveller 4
Rivrrat 3
Bill_torrens 3
Aphillbilly 3
Jackbluelight 1

I'll be posting the questions for week 2 shortly in a new thread.