I’d like to ask a favor of the players. My eyes are bad enough, now, so when you post your answers, I’d appreciate if you would not repeat the questions in your posts. Sometimes I have to search hard to find your answers when they are sandwiched in between the questions. Thanks!
Only one question submitted by a player this week, and I’m pondering whether or not to use it, and if so, how to phrase it. While the question/answer is somewhat amusing, but it is only very tenuously WBTS related.
I’m sure you all can come up with some reasonably interesting questions, about something you may have come across and thought “I didn’t know that, that would make a great trivia question!” Or maybe not. It happened to me frequently. I guess that’s why I’m asking the questions, and you are not. Well, give it a try, anyway. Send suggested questions my posting them with your answers or PM them to me thru CWT.
Just one more thing, as Lt. Columbo would say: Now that we have reached the halfway point of the new game, I’m reminded that I have promised a token prize to the winner (a Forrest Gump-like “You never know what you're gonna get” prize). And as I have not yet devised a good way to settle ties, I’d like your ideas about how to do it. (I do have some wacky ideas, but I’ll bet someone can come up with something better.)
Now, finally, here are the questions for Week 4 of Game # 47
16. He was born in Georgia, and moved with his family in 1850 to another Deep South state. He entered VMI in 1859, but left in 1862 to join the Confederate Army. He served for a time under Stonewall Jackson and later served on the staff of John B. Gordon. Wounded 4 times during the war, he attained the rank of Major. He fought at Spottsylvania and around Petersburg, and carried a flag of truce at Appomattox. He later became Governor of the state to which his family had moved during his childhood. Name him.
17. What did generals Patrick Ronayne Cleburne, Mahlon Dickerson Manson, and John Morrison Oliver all have in common?
18. Notwithstanding Lincoln’s comment to Ozias A. Hatch shortly after the battle of Antietam, that the Army of the Potomac was “McClellan’s Bodyguard”, McClellan did have an officially assigned bodyguard. What was the name of the independent infantry company from a western state, which served as McClellan’s bodyguard and then AOP headquarters guard from June/July 1861 to November 1862?
19. What services did 2 of Lincoln’s presidential election opponents perform for Lincoln on March 4, 1861?
20. This future president fought at Chancellorsville. At Gettysburg he was captured, and he was held in a Confederate prison in Richmond, Virginia for 18 months till he was exchanged in 1865. Name him.
Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, August 11. Good fishing, and good luck!
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Ancestors in USA Army: 6th IA Inf, 11th IL Cav, 1st AL Cav; 122nd NY Inf; 6th MI Cav; 35th MA Inf; 100th IL Inf; 1st CO Inf/Cav; 22nd IN Inf
16. Thomas Goode Jones
17. All three were druggists or pharmacists at one point in their lives.
18. Sturges Rifles
19. Seward and Chase agreed to serve on his cabinetINCORRECT
20. Well, I can find no President of the United States meeting this description. I suppose you are asking for a president of some other entity.Will I need to smack myself on the forehead soon? INCORRECT (smacking is not required)
17. They all worked as pharmacists before the war.
18. Sturges Rifles, from Illinois
19. Stephen Douglas held Abe's hat while Lincoln delivered his inaugural speech.
John Breckinridge enabled the inaugural festivities to take place by making the official announcement, in his role as Buchanan's VP, that Lincoln had won the Electoral College vote and been elected to the office of President. INCORRECT
(Breckinridge did do that, but in a Joint session of Congress on February 13, 1861. If you can give us creditable evidence that Breck did also do that officially or otherwise, for whatever reason, on March 4, 1861, then I'll be very happy to give you the point (and to know about it!).)
20. On the somewhat dubious assumption that the future president in question was actually a POTUS, rather than the president of some other organization, I will guess it was Benjamin Harrison. INCORRECT
17- Generals Cleburne, Manson, and Oliver were all druggists;
19- outgoing Vice President John Breckinridge swore in to office Lincoln's Vice President Hannibal Hamlin in the Senate and Senator Stephen Douglas held Lincoln's hat for him during the President's Inaugural Address.
__________________ 'It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag'
16. Thomas Goode Jones
17. They were all pharmacists
18. Sturges' Rifles
19. Douglas held Lincoln's hat during inauguration speech,
Breckinridge administered oath to H. Hamlin
20. Emil Frey
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