Trivia Game # 48 - Week 1

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 48 - Week 1


Time to begin a new game. New players are welcome to join the game at any time, but the first week of any game is always an especially good time.


Here are the questions for week 1 of Game # 48

1. Before May, 1942, at Corregidor, this place in 1862, witnessed the highest number of United States soldiers surrendered at one time and one place. Name the place and the Union commander of those soldiers who were surrendered.

2. This general graduated first in his class at West Point. He served in the Mexican War. In the CW he participated at Cedar Mountain and was wounded at 2nd Bull Run. For a time he was superintendent at West Point. Name this general who was born in, died in, and was buried in the same town, and while you're at it, name that town.

3. What CW General has his image depicted on both a $5 and a $10 currency note and also a 3 cent stamp?

4. Who did U. S. Grant call “Swamp Fox”?

5. What CW regiment was awarded the most Medals of Honor and why?


Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, September 22. Good luck!

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[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

[Susan Sweet]

1. Dixon Miles who was mortally wounded , Harper's Ferry
2.TOWER, Zealous BatesCohasset, MA
3. Phillip H. Sheridan
4.secessionist Missouri State Guard, M. Jeff Thompson. In recognition of his exploits in the backwaters the effervescent Thompson had earned the sobriquet “Swamp Fox of the Confederacy,
5.Secretary of War Edwin Stanton promised a Medal of Honor to every man in the 27th Regiment, Maine Infantry who extended his enlistment beyond the agreed upon date. Many stayed only four days extra. Stanton awarded a Medal of Honor to all 864 men in the regiment.

[Rad2duhbone53]

1. Harpers Ferry- 12,500 union troops. Brig. Gen Julius White made the final arrangement for surrender after Col. Dixon Miles was mortally wounded by a stray Confederate artillery shell.

2.Gen. Zealous Bates Tower / Cohasset, Mass.

3.Gen. U.S. Grant INCORRECT

4. M. Jeff Thompson

5.Sec. of War Stanton promised the 27th Maine soldiers each the Medal of Honor if they extend their enlistment beyond the agreed date. The total was 864 medals.

[Blockaderunner]

1) Harpers Ferry. Dixon S. Miles.

2) Zealous Bates Tower. Cohasset

3) U. S. Grant INCORRECT

4) M. Jeff Thompson

5) 27th Maine Infantry. The medal was awarded to every man in the regiment who extended his enlistment.

[hoosier]

1. Harpers Ferry, Dixon S. Miles

2. Zealous Bates Tower from Cohasset, MA

3. no answer

4. M. Jeff Thompson

5. no answer

[texaswildcat]

1. Harpers Ferry, Dixon Miles, he was killed by an artillery shell as they were surrendering
2. General Tower, Zealous Bates, Cohasset, Massachusetts
3. Ulysses S. Grant INCORRECT

4. Meriwether Jeff Thompson

5. 27th Maine Infantry for extending their enlistment

[samgrant]

The answers to the questions for week 1 of Game 48:

1. Harpers Ferry , Dixon Stansbury Miles (Notorious for drinking to excess on duty.)

2. Zealous Bates Tower

3. Philip Sheridan

4. Meriwether Jeff Thompson

5. 27th Maine Infantry - Their nine month term was expiring, so they prepared to return to Maine. Lee, however, was in the middle of his Gettysburg campaign and the Army of the Potomac was moving to cut off Lee, leaving Washington unguarded. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton promised a Medal of Honor to every man in the 27th Regiment, Maine Infantry who extended his enlistment beyond the agreed upon date. About 300 of them did stay, but only for four extra days. Because of a bureaucratic snafu, all 864 men in the regiment received the award for remaining in Washington D.C. after their service had expired. The medals were rescinded in 1917.


The scores at the end of Week 1:

FIRST DIVISION

Susan Sweet - 5
Rad2duhbone53 - 4


SECOND DIVISION

Blockaderunner - 4
texaswildcat - 4
Hoosier - 3


You'll notice that Susan Sweet and Rad2duhbone53 have been promoted to the First Division. This is because I have decided to keep 2 divisions, but promote any player who in the past has had one perfect score for a past game (games prior to Game 47) or the highest score for any one game (beginning with Game 47). This this should make the competitions within the divisions more balanced.



Thanks again. See you next week!