Trivia Game # 39 - Week 1

[hoosier]

Time to start a new game. Rules for Game # 39 will essentially be the same as those for Game # 38, with the obvious exception that Game # 39 is starting on May 20 instead of April 8.

Many thanks to Robert B. Condon and RaggedRebel for supplying the questions and answers for Games # 37 and 38. That allowed me the time to come up with some new sources of trivia, so I can resume preparing questions on my own. Robert and Ragged, you are both eligible to participate in Game # 39.

New players are welcome to join the game at any time. For those of you who may have played a time or two in the past, only to find that you had joined a game in the middle and the other players were far ahead of you, this is your chance to start even with everyone else.

Here are the questions for Week 1 of Game # 39.

1.When Abraham Lincoln’s wallet was examined after his assassination, it was found to contain only one piece of currency, and that was not United States currency. From what country did it originate?

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

3. Visitors to Stonewall Jackson’s grave in Lexington, VA commonly leave what kind of fruit around the site?

4. What U.S. Senator and future Vice President did Confederate spy Rose O’Neal Greenhow attempt to implicate as an accomplice?

5. (Two point question) The class of 1854 was the last to graduate from West Point while Robert E. Lee was superintendent of the Military Academy. What did the class take as its motto?

I will be traveling next weekend to attend my nephew’s graduation from the University of Massachusetts, so the earliest I expect to be able to get home to review everybody’s responses would be Sunday night. For that reason, the deadline for responses to the questions for Week 1 will be 6 PM EDT Sunday, May 28, rather than the usual 6 PM Saturday deadline.

Good luck!

[traveller]

1. $5 Confederate note

2. Sherman

3. Lemons

4. Senator Henry Wilson

5. When Our Country Calls

[samgrant]

1. It originated from the United States, from a state in rebellion. It was a 1864 $5.00 Confederate note produced by Keatinge and Ball of Columbia, South Carolina.

2. William T. Sherman

3. Lemons

4. Henry D. Wilson

5. "When Our Country Calls"

[Robert B. Condon]

1. Is this a trick question? I and some others would say the currency originated from an independent nation that once stretched from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Others, of a different persuasion, might say that it did not originate from any country but from a group of states in rebellion against the national government. But anyway, it was a $5.00 bill/note of the Confederate States of America.

2. William T. Sherman

3. Citrus limon

4. "When our country calls"

5. Henry Wilson

[IrishBrigadeLadd]

Originally Posted by hoosier

1.When Abraham Lincoln’s wallet was examined after his assassination, it was found to contain only one piece of currency, and that was not United States currency. From what country did it originate?

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

3. Visitors to Stonewall Jackson’s grave in Lexington, VA commonly leave what kind of fruit around the site?
Good luck!

1. The currency was from the Confederate States of America, I believe.

2. I think it was William T. Sherman's funeral that he was attending.

3. That would have to be a lemon!

4. NO ANSWER

5. NO ANSWER


Andrew

[Rad2duhbone53]

1. 5 Dollar Confederate Bill
2. William T. Sherman
3. Lemons
4.Henry Wilson
5. Duty-Honor-Country INCORRECT

[aggie80]

1. His wallet contained a five-dollar Confederate note.

2. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s

3. Peaches INCORRECT

4. John C. Calhoun INCORRECT

5. Some of the young men who had tasted Lee's discipline were included among the forty-six who graduated in June, 1854, after a session that was wholly uneventful except for the incidents already noted. The class took for its ring emblem a mailed hand holding a sword with the motto, "When Our Country Calls."

[rivrrat]

Good to be back from my vacation in the Desert Southwest. A route chosen by my wife because "There isn't a Civil War Battlefield any where close."

1. Confederate States of America.
2. William T. Sherman.
3. Lemons
4. Henry Wilson.
5. "When our Country Calls."

[texaswildcat]

1. 5 dollar currency from the Confederacy

2. William T. Sherman

3. Lemons

4. Henry Wilson, Massachusetts

5. When our country calls

[hoosier]

Bumping the thread