Trivia Game # 51 - Week 4

samgrant · #1 03-01-2008, 06:04 PM

Trivia Game # 51 - Week 4

Here are the questions for Week 4 of game #51:

1. In a 1995 Rock/Country/Folk(?) song, a Texas soldier curses what Confederate general?

2. What newspaper reporter was arrested and court-martialed on charges of being a spy and disobeying orders in 1863?

3. He was accused but never arrested in relation to a plot to kill president-elect Lincoln on his way to Washington D.C. Name him.

4 . Sutler Rags to Riches Story (Part 2)
This Michigan native was a sutler’s clerk during the war and later became a partner in running one of the greatest circuses in the world. Name him.

5. He left Harvard College to join the Union army, but transferred to the navy so he could study the skies. Name this astronomer who discovered several comets.

Answers are due by 6 pm (eastern) on Saturday, March 8.

Good Luck!

samgrant · #2 03-02-2008, 09:05 AM

Bumping the thread.

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Rad2duhbone53 · #3 03-02-2008, 01:57 PM

does question 1 refer to an original song of 1995 or a remake of an older song?

samgrant · #4 03-02-2008, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Rad2duhbone53

does question 1 refer to an original song of 1995 or a remake of an older song?

It was new in 1995, not a remake.

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samgrant · #5 03-02-2008, 08:41 PM

I had originally intended to say "what eponymous Confederate general?, but left out that word because it may have been confusing. (I know is is to me.)

What I meant so say was that the name of the song is also the name of the general.

One last clue: it concerns the Trans-Mississippi theater.

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Rad2duhbone53 · #6 03-03-2008, 09:36 PM

1. John Bell Hood INCORRECT

2.Thomas W. Knox

3.Cipriano Ferrandini

4. James A. McGinnis a.k.a. James Bailey

5. Horace Parnell Tuttle

natek1029 · #7 03-04-2008, 04:03 PM

1. John Bell Hood INCORRECT
2. Thomas W. Knox
3. Cipriano Ferrandini
4. James Anthony Bailey
5. Horace Parnell Tuttle

Susan Sweet · #8 03-07-2008, 04:25 AM

1. Ben McCulloch

2. Thomas W. Knox

3.Cipriano Ferrandini

4.James A. Bailey

5.Horace Parnell Tuttle
Susan Sweet

sockknitter · #9 03-07-2008, 05:54 PM

1. Ben McCulloch
2. Thomas W. Knox
3. Cipriano Ferrandini
4. James Anthony McGuinness Bailey
5. Horace P. Tuttle

Rad2duhbone53 · #10 03-07-2008, 06:03 PM

I would like to change my answer on question 1. Although I still can't find the answer I'm going to take a wild shot at this and say Edmund Kirby Smith. OK, still INCORRECT