Trivia Game # 36 - Week 1

[hoosier]

Here are the questions for Week 1 of Game # 36.

1. Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant met at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865 to discuss surrender terms. What was the name of the owner of the house in which they met?

2. What was the middle name of John Wilkes Booth’s father?

3. After serving as a member of a commission to study European army organization in 1855, George McClellan proposed the creation of a new rank in the U.S. Army. What rank was it?

4. According to a well-known poem by John Greenleaf Whittier, Barbara Frietchie uttered the line “Shoot if you must this old gray head, But spare your country’s flag," (she said) to Confederate troops marching through the town where she lived. In what town did she live?

5. (Two point question) Joseph Johnston and William T. Sherman met near Durham Station, NC on April 17, 1865 to discuss surrender terms. What was the name of the owner of the house in which they met?

Answers to the questions for Week 1 will be due by 6 PM EST on Saturday, January 21.

Good luck!

Looking to the future, I’ve received suggestions from Highfly and Mr. Tacitus on additional sources for trivia questions, so I should be able to keep the game going for the conceivable future. Thanks to both of them.

I do, however, want to emphasize that I will still welcome contributions of questions or references to possible sources from anybody who wants to supply me with such.

[texaswildcat]

1. Wilmer Mclean
2. Brutus
3. Sergeant Major INCORRECT
4. Frederick Maryland
5. James Bennett

[traveller]

1. Wilbur McClean

2. Brutus

3. Provost Marshal General INCORRECT

4. Frederick

5. James Bennett

[Robert B. Condon]

1. Wilmer McLean

2. Brutus

3. private first class

4. Frederick, Maryland

5. James Bennitt

[sarladaise]

1. Wilmer McLean
2. Brutus
3. Lieutenant-General INCORRECT
4. Frederick, MD
5. James Bennitt

[bill_torrens]

1. Wilmer McLean.

2. Brutus

3. Lieutenant-General INCORRECT

4. Frederick, Md.

5. James Bennett

[bama_belle]

1. Wilmer McLean
2. Brutus
3. The only information I could find regarding this is that he proposed using a calvary manual adapted from the Russian Calvary. INCORRECT
4. Frederick (MD)
5. James and Nancy Bennitt (and yes, that is the correct spelling)

[rivrrat]

1. Wilmer McLean.
2. Brutus.
3. Lt. Gen. INCORRECT
4. Frederick Maryland.
5. James Bennitt.

[sockknitter]

1. Wilmer McLean


2. Brutus

3. ordnance sergeant INCORRECT

4. Frederick MD

5. James and Nancy Bennitt or Bennett

[milhistbuff1]

1.Wilmer McClean
2. Brutus
3. Inspector General INCORRECT
4. Frederick
5. James Bennet