I’m going to go ahead and post the questions for Week 2, so everyone can start working on them. However, I ask that no one post any responses until after 6 PM Monday, January 23. Please see the thread “Before anyone responds to the questions for Week 2” for an explanation.
Here are the questions for Week 2 of Game # 36.
6. Abraham Lincoln, in 1861, was the first U.S. president to be inaugurated while five former presidents were still alive. Which five were they?
7. The Round Forest, also known as Hell’s Half Acre, was a strong defensive position on the field of what battle?
8. John Wilkes Booth’s plan for April 14, 1865 called for the assassination of not only Abraham Lincoln but Vice President Andrew Johnson as well. Who was given the assignment of killing Johnson?
9. What U.S. Senator had one son who became a Union major general and another son who became a Confederate major general?
10. (Two point question) The Union conducted a type of aerial psychological warfare by dropping copies of Lincoln’s Amnesty Proclamation behind Southern lines. What devices were used to carry the copies over the lines?
Answers to the questions for Week 2 will be due by 6 PM EST Saturday, January 28.
No one has come forward to say that they saw anyone else's responses other than their own prior to the 6 PM Saturday deadline last week.
Evidently Mike made a change to the boards which had the effect of allowing each player to see his or her own post immediately it was entered. Then the post would disappear until after I had given it the moderator's approval.
I can understand why this would be disconcerting, since this had never happened in previous games. However, since no one saw anyone else's responses, it apparently didn't result in an unfair advantage for anybody.
Therefore, the game can go on. Players are now free to post responses to the questions for Week 2.
If any of you are really bothered by this new change, please let me know. If I find that a substantial number of our players find it annoying, I'll see if I can get Mike to reverse that particular change.
6. James Buchanan, Franklin Pierce, Millard Filmore, John Tyler, Martin Van Buren
7. Stone's River/Murfreesboro (Tennessee)
8. George Atzerodt
9. John Crittenden (of Kentucky)
10. In February/March of 1864 a cavalry raid on Richmond was led by Judson Kilpatrick and Ulric Dahlgren. It's purpose was to free Union POWs from prisons there, to destroy communications, and to distribute copies of the Amnesty Proclamation. Copies were to be scattered in Confederate areas along the way.
If by 'devices used to carry' you are looking for something more specific, I would say: saddlebags. (As this was to be a 'lightning' type raid, I don't believe they took wagons along.) INCORRECT
(This raid has been documented in a book titled The Dahlgren Affair by Duane Schultz, and also in a shorter piece by Stephen Sears: Raid on Richmond from his book Controversies and Commanders.)
The 'controversy' was over the allegations that the Dahlgren allegedly hung a free Negro who, Dahlgren thought, had given him faulty information about a river crossing; and most importantly, Dahlgren, who was subsequently killed, was purported to have in his possession documents indicating that one of the aims of the raid was to capture and/or kill Jefferson Davis! (Some theorize that this was the genesis for the later alleged activities of Confederate secret agents to assist in the plot of J. W. Booth to kidnap and/or kill A. Lincoln). One conspiracy built upon another! GOOD INFO ON THE DAHLGREN INCIDENT, BUT THE QUESTION ASKED ABOUT "AERIAL" PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE.
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Trivia Game # 36 - Week 2 
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