Here are the answers to the Week 5 questions:
21. There were 5 living ex-presidents as of the date of Lincoln's inauguration in 1861 (Van Buren, Tyler, Fillmore, Pierce, and Buchanan). No other American president took office with so many predecessors still living until Bill Clinton in 1993.
22. Nathan Bedford Forrest rode a horse named King Philip.
23. A barbette was a raised wooden bed or platform that allowed an artillery piece to be fired over a protective wall or parapet without exposing its gun crew to the enemy. (but it was not the artillery piece itself)
24. The Order of the Heroes of America wore a red string (not a ribbon) in their lapels to identify themselves.
25. I knew I was going to get in trouble for this one.
The answer I was going for was the naval engagement between the USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama off the coast of Cherbourg, France.
After the first response, I realized that some people might think of the Pacific Ocean as being the Far East, so I tried to put in a clarification so nobody would respond with something that took place in the Pacific.
What I didn't figure on was that somebody would come up with an action that took place in the Indian Ocean.
Although Cindyscoops has documented that the Alabama sank a ship in the Indian Ocean and that, according to my clarification, that was still in "the east" and it was further east than the Kearsarge-Alabama encounter, I will give credit for either answer. Unfortunately for Texaswildcat, the action in the China Sea was clearly in the hemisphere I had defined as "the west," so I can't give credit for your answer.
Here are the scores after Week 5.
Aggie80 30
Bill_torrens 30
Cindyscoops 30
ewc 30
Sarladaise 22
Dawna 21
Traveller 19
Texaswildcat 16
dbardes87 12
Raggedrebel 12
Darrin365 6
Sockknitter 5
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