Trivia Game # 36 - Week 6

hoosier · #1 02-18-2006, 09:19 PM

Here are the questions for Week 6, the final week of Game # 36.

26. After attending the funeral of a Union general on a wintry day, Joseph Johnston contracted a case of pneumonia that eventually caused his own death. Whose funeral had this dire consequence for Johnston?

27. Who was the first medical doctor to attend to Abraham Lincoln after he had been shot?

28. How did guerrilla William “Bloody Bill” Anderson keep track of the number of men he had killed?

29. What Civil War fort was named for the last surviving general of the American Revolution? (For those of you of the Confederate persuasion, the question refers to the first American Revolution.)

25. (Two point question) What British naturalist and scientific theorist was born on the same day as Abraham Lincoln?

Answers to the questions for Week 6 will be due by 6 PM EST Saturday, February 25.

Good luck!

Game # 37, which will begin next week, will feature questions composed by RaggedRebel. Prepare yourselves, there are going to be some toughies in there.

samgrant · #2 02-18-2006, 10:08 PM

26. Sherman

27. Charles Leale

28. tying a knot in his silk scarf (total 56?)

29. Thomas Sumter (General Sumter was one of the models for Mel Gibson's character in the 2000 movie, "The Patriot" (along with Francis Marion and Andrew Pickens, also from South Carolina) INCORRECT

30. Charles Darwin

texaswildcat · #3 02-19-2006, 01:26 AM

1. W.T Sherman

2. Charles A. Leale

3. Scalps he attached to his saddle INCORRECT

4. Marquis de Lafayette INCORRECT

5. Charles Darwin

sarladaise · #4 02-19-2006, 12:54 PM

26. William T. Sherman's
27. Dr. Charles Leale
28. by putting knots in a silken cord
29. Fort Sumter
30. Charles Darwin

sockknitter · #5 02-20-2006, 11:43 PM

26. William T. Sherman

27. Charles Leale

28. knots tied in a silk cord

29. Sumter

25. Charles Darwin

Robert B. Condon · #6 02-21-2006, 06:25 PM

26. William T. Sherman

27. Dr. Charles A. Leale

28. He tied a knot in a silk cord for every man he killed.

29. Thomas Sumter INCORRECT

30. Charles Robert Darwin

hoosier · #7 02-21-2006, 11:11 PM

Bumping the thread.

traveller · #8 02-24-2006, 01:55 AM

26. Sherman's

27. Charles Leale

28. human scalps INCORRECT

29. General Thomas Sumter INCORRECT

25. Darwin

bama_belle · #9 02-24-2006, 09:38 PM

26. William Tecumseh Sherman

27. Dr. Charles Leale

28. It is said he carried a silk cord on which knots were tied for every Yankee he killed. It is also said that he collected scalps and tied them to his saddle horn. MULTIPLE ANSWERS

29. General Thomas Sumter of South Carolina. INCORRECT

25. Charles Darwin

Ronayne · #10 02-25-2006, 12:34 AM

#26 Sherman
#27 Leale
#28 scalps INCORRECT
#29 Sumter
#30 Darwin