Trivia Game # 41 - Week 2

[hoosier]

I’d like to issue one of my periodic reminders to all players to please review Rule # 7, the multiple-answer rule. If you want to give more than one answer to a question that only asks for one answer, please supply a source for each of the answers you want to give. It will save me some scrambling around if everyone can remember to do this.

Here are the questions for Week 2 of Game # 41.

6. Who was the last Confederate West Point graduate to die during the war?

7. What did the bugle call “Stable Call” signify?

8. What 1989 film showed the attack on the Confederacy’s Fort Wagner by a black Union regiment?

9. Due to a clerical error, the cadet born as Hiram Ulysses Grant was officially listed on West Point records as Ulysses Simpson Grant. What significance (other than the fact that the Point listed it as his middle name) did the name Simpson have for Cadet Grant?

10. (Two point question) What Philadelphia-born Confederate who once attained the rank of lieutenant general ended the war as a colonel?

Answers to the questions for Week 2 will be due by 6 PM EDT on Saturday, August 26.

Good luck!

[Rad2duhbone53]

6.Robert Charles Tyler SEE 8/22 CORRECTION

7.cavalry soldiers would report to feed and groom their mounts

8.Glory

9.It was Grant's Mother's maiden name

10.John C. Pemberton

[Robert B. Condon]

6. James Dearing INCORRECT

7. For cavalrymen it meant time to feed and groom their mounts.

8. Glory

9. Simpson was his mother's maiden name.

10. John C. Pemberton

[hoosier]

Question 6 asks for the name of the last Confederate West Point graduate to die during the war.

It has been pointed out to me that this could be interpreted in two ways - either asking for the Confederate West Point graduate who graduated on the latest date and then died during the war, regardless of the date of death, or for the Confederate West Point graduate who died on the latest date prior to the end of the war, regardless of his date of graduation.

The intention was to ask for the Confederate West Point graduate who died on the latest date prior to the end of the war, regardless of his date of graduation.

[hoosier]

I have also been asked for a clarification on Question # 9.

I'm not sure what I can say, other than the fact that the clerk entering Grant's name on the West Point records had to have gotten the name Simpson from somewhere. In preparing your response, you should think about whether or not your answer describes a relationship between Grant and the name Simpson that could logically have led to a clerical error of this nature.

Just to give a hypothetical example of a wrong answer - if somebody named O. J. Simpson had been one of Grant's best customers when Grant was running the store in Galena, IL following his first term of service with the army, that would not be a correct answer, because there would be no logical reason why that fact could have led the clerk at West Point to make that mistake many years before.

If, after this clarification, anyone still believes there is more than one correct answer to the question, please be sure to indicate your sources for each answer you give.

[samgrant]

6. Ambrose Powell Hill

7. It meant for cavalry soldiers to go to the stables to feed and groom their horses. (And they had to do it fast as Breakfast Call was not far off!)

8. "Glory"

9. Simpson was Grant's mother's maiden name. (the congressman who sent his appointment knew Grant as Ulysses as a called name, and not sure of his middle name, and in a rush, guessed at Simpson, for the reason given above)

(Aside: Before your clarification, with the emphasis on the name Simpson, I had wondered if your emphasis might have been on the last two words, "Cadet Grant", in which case might have led to an answer that the "S" of Simpson was what led to his acquiring the nickname "Sam".)

(This is NOT a multiple answer!)

10. John C. Pemberton

[20thMass]

6. General A.P. Hill was killed on April 2, 1865 at Petersburg.

7. A "Stable Call" meant that cavalry soldiers were to report to the stables to feed and groom their horses.

8. Glory

9. Simpson was Grant's mother's maiden name. That is were the clerical error came from.

10. John Pemberton.

[Rad2duhbone53]

before the deadline I wish to change my answer of question #6 to
A.P. Hill

[sarladaise]

6. Ambrose Powell Hill
7. for the troopers to tend their horses
8. "Glory"
9. his mother's maiden name
10. John C. Pemberton

[texaswildcat]

1. A. P. Hill

2. To feed and groom their mounts

3. Glory

4. It was his mother’s middle name INCORRECT

5. John C. Pemberton