Trivia Game # 44 - Week 2

[texaswildcat]

6. Winchester, Virginia

7. 13 inch mortar was used by the First Connecticut Heavy Artillery NEEDED THE NAME

8. A uniquely styled sword, with distinctive hilts

9. Irvin McDowell

10. A prison pen for Confederate soldiers

[ewc]

6- strategically important and crossoroads Winchester VA;

7- The Petersburg Express, otherwise known as The Dictator- a 13" seacoast mortar mounted on a flatbed railcar, used in the Federal seige of Petersburg;

8- Nashville Plow Works manufactured cavalry sabres;

9- US General Irvin McDdowell;

10- Point Lookout became a notorious prisoner of war prison.

[hoosier]

After two weeks of play, we still have six players with perfect scores, and no one is more than one point behind the leaders.

Here are the answers to the questions for Week 2.

6. Winchester, VA, the “See-Saw” city of the war, changed hands more than 70 times. Harper’s Ferry changed hands numerous times, also, but not as many times as Winchester.

7. The Petersburg Express, a 17,000-pound, 13-inch mortar used during the siege of Petersburg, was also known as the Dictator.

8. The Nashville Plow Works, contrary to the Biblical saying, “They shall beat swords into plowshares,” produced swords (specifically, cavalry sabers).

9. Irvin McDowell graduated 23rd in the class of 1838.

10. The Federals established a prison camp at Point Lookout, which housed as many as 20,000 Confederates during the last two years of the war.

The scores at the end of Week 2:

FIRST DIVISION

SamGrant 12
Sarladaise 12

SECOND DIVISION

20thMass 12
ewc 12
Rad2duhbone53 12
RivrRat 12
Jamieva 11
Miss Markie 11
Ole 11
Texaswildcat 11