Trivia Game # 31 - Week 3

[bill_torrens]

11. Three of his children died of scarlet fever

12. Catherine Furnace

13. William B. Franklin

14. Switzerland

15. He built a dam to float the gunboats over the rapids

[hoosier]

Welcome to new player LRD89.

Incidentally, since the board puts everybody's user name in all lowercase letters, I take my best guess at how people would like those names capitalized. If anyone would like me to capitalize them differently, please let me know and I'll try to remember your preferences.

Answers to the questions for Week 3:

11. Three of Longstreet's children died in a scarlet fever epidemic that swept through Richmond in January 1862. (Sorry, LRD89, it wasn't typhoid.)

12. The expert on local roads was the owner of Catherine Furnace.

13. Grant graduated in 1843. William B. Franklin graduated first in the class.

14. Henry Wirz was born in Zurich, Switzerland.

15. After sailing up the Red River to support Nathaniel Banks’ advance, Adm. Porter’s Mississippi Squadron was in danger of being stranded by receding waters. Bailey, acting chief engineer of XIX Corps, designed and built a series of wing dams that raised the water levels enough to allow the Squadron to escape back to the Mississippi.

The scores after Week 3:

FIRST DIVISION

CindyScoops 17
RaggedRebel 17
Aggie80 5

SECOND DIVISION

Bill_Torrens 17
Sarladaise 17
Idlewild 12
Texaswildcat 12
Traveller 11
Sockknitter 6
LRD89 2