Trivia Game # 34 - Week 5

[sarladaise]

21. twisted railroad tracks
22. Edward Everett
23. John a. Dahlgren
24. Passenger pigeon
25. James B. McPherson

[raggedrebel]

Bossman, I just realized I had read #23 wrong. It asks for the father, not the son. Can I correct my response to read Admiral John Dahlgren instead of Ulirch Dahlgren?
Y.H.S,
RR

YES, YOU CAN CORRECT A RESPONSE, AS LONG AS THE CORRECTING POST IS MADE BEFORE THE DEADLINE, AS THIS ONE WAS.

[hoosier]

Sorry for being late posting the results. Had some computer problems last night and earlier today, , but things seem to be working OK now.

Looks like I didn’t fool anybody this week. I thought the passenger pigeon question might be troublesome, but everyone seems to know their extinct species of birds, as well as Civil War history.

The official answers to the questions.

21. Sherman’s hairpins were bent pieces of railroad track. Sherman’s troops were instructed, after ripping up track, to heat the rails and bend them so that the Confederates could not easily put them back in place.

22. Bell’s running mate was Edward Everett of Massachusetts, who would later serve as Lincoln’s warm-up act prior to the Gettysburg Address.

23. The slain colonel, Ulric Dahlgren, was the son of Rear Admiral John Dahlgren, the inventor of the Dahlgren gun.

24. Pigeon Hill was named after the passenger pigeon, great flocks of which used to roost on the hill during their annual migration. The passenger pigeons’ tendency to flock close together in large numbers made them easy targets for hunters, particularly after the invention of the telegraph enabled quick communication about the locations where the pigeons had come to roost. The resultant overhunting greatly hastened the species’ extinction.

25. My source indicated that John Schofield was Hood’s roommate and mathematics tutor. However, CindyScoops has provided numerous sources indicating that James McPherson was also a roommate of Hood’s and also gave him tutoring in mathematics (McPherson finished first in the class – Schofield was seventh – so either of them would have been well qualified to do the tutoring.) Since there are sources to support both answers, both answers will receive credit.

With one week to go, we still have five people with perfect scores of 30 points. The ranks of First Division may be about to grow.

The scores at the end of Week 5.

FIRST DIVISION

CindyScoops 30
RaggedRebel 30

SECOND DIVISION

Bill_Torrens 30
Robert B. Condon 30
SamGrant 30
Sockknitter 28
Texaswildcat 23
ewc 22
RivrRat 17
Traveller 17
FSPowers 14
Sarladaise 12