Trivia Game # 47 - Week 2

[rivrrat]

6. Winfield S. Hancock Democratic Party 1880
John W. Phelps American Party 1880
Benjamin F. Butler Greenback Party 1884
John M. Palmer National Democratic Party
(Gold Democrats) 1896
James B. Weaver Greenback-Labor Party 1880
Populist Party 1892.

7. William B. Hazen INCORRECT

8. Joseph L. Pierce

9. Baked Fish, General Pickett decided to take the day off for a fish bake, allowing General Warren to exploite a gap in his lines.

10. Farmer William Roulett's Bees.

[bgl1952]

#6 Benjamin Franklin Butler 1884
Winfield Scott Handcock 1880
George McCellan
?
? INCORRECT
#7 General Hazen INCORRECT

#8 Joseph Pierce

#9 Shan April 1st Rosser invited Pickett and Fitzhugh Lee to a shad bake a mile behind the lines when Sheridan and Warren began thier attack the Conferate commanders were unawaer of thier impending doom. Between the front lines and Rosser position was a dense forest which completely absorbed the sounds the sound of small arms. The leaderless Conferates were over whelme on their left and the battle of Five Foeks quickly turn into a rout. [Watch your spelling, "Shan" may be a type of fish I'm not aware of, since you used "shad" in your extended answer, I'll assume you just misspelled or mis-keyed it. (Also "Handcock" and "McCellan")]

#10 Angry Bees

[hoosier]

6. A. George McClellan, 1864
B. Winfield Hancock, 1880
C. Ben Butler, 1884
D. John C. Fremont, 1856
E. Andrew Johnson, 1868. (Though he WAS president, he was never ELECTED to the office.) INCORRECT (he may have wanted to run, but was not nominated, therefore cannot be accepted as one "who ran")

7. Mary Ann Bickerdyke

8. Cpl. Joseph Pierce, born in Canton, China, the highest-ranked Chinese soldier to have fought in the Civil War

9. Shad. George Pickett was enjoying a shad bake, totally unaware that his troops were under attack at Five Forks. Bereft of Pickett’s leadership, the Confederates were defeated.

10. Bees

[samgrant]

We lost one player from last week, but gained several, including former WBTS game moderator, hoosier. Welcome all.


The answers to the questions for Week 2:

6. Winfield Scott 1852 Whig
John C. Fremont 1856 Republican
George B. McClellan 1864 Democrat
Green Clay Smith 1876 Prohibition
Winfield S. Hancock 1880 Democrat
Neal S. Dow 1880 Prohibition
John Walcott Phelps 1880 American/Anti-Masonic
James Baird Weaver (Bvt.) 1880 Greenback Labor, 1892 Populist
Benjamin Franklin Butler 1884 Greenback/Anti-Monopoly
Clinton Bowen Fisk 1888 Prohibition
John McCauley Palmer 1896 National Democratic (Gold Democrats)

7. Mary Ann (Ball) Bickerdyke (I expect you all noted that ‘outranked’ is in quotes, right?)

While both Logan and Bickerdyke (and staff and Hazen, apparently) rode at the head of the XV Corps, on May 24, 1865, Logan was not a civilian, nor did he (literally or figuratively) outrank General Sherman. The same would hold for Hazen.

(For a story about the 'outranked' thing, see my new post "How Bickerdyke 'outranked' Sherman" in the "Civil War History - General Discussion" area.)

8. Joseph L. Pierce (aka Joseph A. Pierce) was born in Canton, Kwangtung Province, China.

(See ‘Curveball’ in my New Game post). As no player whiffed at this curveball (I guess I gave one too many other clues?), I’ll assume you are telling me that I should be more devious in future with questions of this type.

9. (It was April Fools Day!) The fish was a Shad, and there are also several variations of this story. Here is one (mine): Gen. Lee ordered Gen. Pickett to hold Five forks at all hazard. Nevertheless, Pickett and Gen. Fitzhugh Lee accepted an invitation from Gen. Thomas Rosser to attend a shad bake (libations may have been involved) approximately a mile away from the front at Five Forks. The happy generals did not hear the sound of small arms fire in the initial minutes of the battle and, leaderless, the Confederate forces at Five Forks were overcome and routed by federal troops.

10. Angry bees, upset by a shell which had smashed into their hive.


[Note: Players, please check your answers for any inadvertent errors before posting them. I think I can tell a misspelling or mis-keying of words most of the time, and since this is not a spelling contest, will usually let that slide. Numbers are a different story.]

Congratulations to Blockaderunner who, making up for last week, posted the only perfect score this week.

The scores at the end of Week 2:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 4

SECOND DIVISION

cw1865 - 8
Susan_Sweet - 8
Blockaderunner - 7
Dred - 7
sockknitter - 6
hoosier - 4
ole - 4
rivrrat - 4
bgl1952 - 3
texaswildcat - 3
gary - 2
rad2duhbone - 1 (didn't play, but gets the point for submitting question 10)

(By the way, I have made a minor change as to determining 'First Division', see the last "Rules" post if you care.)


Thanks again. See you next week!

sam