Trivia Game # 40 - Week 2

hoosier · #1 07-08-2006, 09:11 PM

Here are the questions for Week 2 of Game # 40.

6. What was the first battle at which U. S. Grant commanded Union troops against R. E. Lee?

7. Of the terms “color,” “standard,” and “ensign,” which referred to a flag carried by dismounted troops?

8. What county in Texas is named for Confederate Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson?

9. What was Tad Lincoln, son of the president, doing when he first learned that his father had been shot?

10. (Two point question) What distinctive assignment did Federal cavalry Maj. Atherton Stevens Jr. carry out in Richmond on April 3, 1865?

Answers to the questions for Week 2 will be due by 6 PM EDT on Saturday, July 15.

Good luck!

Rad2duhbone53 · #2 07-09-2006, 08:18 AM

6. Battle of the Wilderness

7.Color

8.Stonewall

9.With his Tutor at Grover's Theater watching "Aladdin"or "The wonderful Lamp"

10. He raised the Federal colors over the Confederate Capital

Robert B. Condon · #3 07-10-2006, 09:55 AM

6. Battle of the Wilderness

7. Color

8. Stonewall

9. Watching a play at Grover's Theatre (Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp)

10. He raised two small national flags, guidons of the 4th Michigan Cavalry, over the Confederate capital, specifically the Virginia Capitol Building.

samgrant · #4 07-11-2006, 11:12 PM

6. Wilderness

7. Colors

8. Stonewall County (oddly enough, I found a website that claimed that Stonewall County was named after one ""Andrew "Stonewall Jackson"!)

9. (Disqualified)

10. According to lore, he was the first Federal officer to enter Richmond (on the heels of the Rebs retreat), and that he raised the first Federal/ Union flag over the Virginia Capitol MULTIPLE ANSWER

texaswildcat · #5 07-14-2006, 04:18 AM

1. The wilderness

2. Color, condon and I would know

3. Stonewall County

4. with his tutor watching "Aladdin or the Wonderful Lamp"

5. led two companies of cavalry in the city and raised the two guidons of the companies over the Viriginia Capital Building, being the first federal flags over Richmond MULTIPLE ANSWER

gary · #6 07-15-2006, 03:19 AM

1) Wilderness
2) Cavalry flags are called standards CORRECT STATEMENT, BUT INCORRECT ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION
3) Stonewall county
4) Tad was with his tutor attending another play, Alladin (and his magic lamp?)
5) Raise the U.S. flag over the Confederate Capitol

traveller · #7 07-15-2006, 10:11 AM

6. In the dark, forbidding woods of Virginia's Wilderness, Generals Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee stumbled blindly toward their first wartime encounter. Neither had a clear idea of his opponent's intentions, but each planned to do what he did best--attack.

7. "Colors"

8. Stonewall County

9. Tad was watching a play at Grovers Theater

10. Maj. Atherton Stevens Jr. was the First Federal officer to enter Richmond upon it fall. INCORRECT

bgl1952 · #8 07-15-2006, 10:51 AM

#6 The Battle of the Wilderness

#7 Color

#8 Stone County INCORRECT

#9 Tad was with his tutor at Grouer's theatre watching Aladdin or the Wonderfu; Lamp

#10 Maj. Atherton Stevens Jr. raised the Guidons of the two companies of the 4th Massachusetts over the capitol building , thus being the first federal colors raised over the capitol of the confederacy .

hoosier · #9 07-15-2006, 07:44 PM

After two weeks of play in Game 40, Rad2duhbone53 has taken the lead in the Second Division, while Robert B. Condon is going to be tough to catch in the First Division.

At the conclusion of Game 39, SamGrant told me he expected to be away for several weeks and gave me some questions to use in his absence. (Question # 5 last week and # 9 this week were Sam's.) Sam has returned sooner than expected, but I had already posted the questions for this week, so he quite properly disqualified himself from answering question # 9.

We had varying answers on question # 10. My source said that Stevens raised the first U.S. flag over the city of Richmond and he raised it over the Virginia statehouse, which had served as the Confederate Capitol building. Some of you said that he was the first Federal officer to arrive in the city and some said he led two companies of cavalry into the city, but my source didn't mention either of those things. If you have a source to back up your answer, please enter an appeal before 6 PM Tuesday.

The answers to the questions for Week 2:

6. Grant first faced off against Lee at the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864.

7. A “color” was carried by dismounted troops. A standard was carried by mounted units and an ensign was flown from a naval vessel.

8. Stonewall County, TX, is named for the Confederate general. There is a Jackson County in Texas, but that one is named for Andrew Jackson.

9. Ironically, Tad was attending a play when he learned that his father had been shot while attending a different play. Tad was at Grove’s Theatre, watching a performance of “Aladdin? Or His Wonderful Lamp,” when the stage manager interrupted the play to announce to the audience that the president had been shot.

10. Stevens, a Massachusetts man, raised the first U.S. flag over the city as Federal troops took control of it. He raised it at the Virginia statehouse, where the Confederate Congress had met.

The scores at the end of Week 2 (pending appeals):

FIRST DIVISION

Robert B. Condon 10
SamGrant 3

SECOND DIVISION

Rad2duhbone53 12
bgl1952 11
Gary 11
Texaswildcat 10
Traveller 10
ewc 6
TomH 5

traveller · #10 07-15-2006, 10:06 PM

My answer to Question # 10

On April 3rd, 1865 Stevens led two companies of the 4th Mass. Volunteer Cavalry into Richmond, and was the first Federal Officer to enter the city upon its fall.
Here is my source: http://www.civilwarmysteries.com/Maj...tonStevens.htm

Hope you accept it, as I am no too often tied for the lead.

Traveller