Trivia Game # 51 - Week 5

[Gay Mathis]

1. Hugh Weedon Mercer
2. Susan Warner & Anna B. Warner
3. Samuel "Champ" Ferguson
4. Mound City
5. General Augustus Mellon
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Gay

[5fish]

Originally Posted by samgrant

Game #50 - Week 5

Here are the questions for Week 5:

1. His grandfather was a general during the American Revolutionary War, his great-grandson was a well known 20th century songwriter. Name this Civil War general.

2. These siblings taught at and are buried at West Point. Name them.

3. This East Tennessee guerrilla was hanged in October 1865. Name him.

4. A single cannon shot disabled a Union gunboat killing over 120 men in 1862. Name the gunboat.

5. Name the fictional Confederate General who is the focus of a 1960’s novel in which two hippie types meander around San Francisco and coastal California.



Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, March 15.

Good Luck!

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1) clueless INCORRECT

2)Rains brothers 1856 INCORRECT

3)Champ Ferguson

4)Cairo -torpedo INCORRECT

5)Quintin or (clueless ) INCORRECT

[5fish]

Originally Posted by samgrant

Game #50 - Week 5

Here are the questions for Week 5:

1. His grandfather was a general during the American Revolutionary War, his great-grandson was a well known 20th century songwriter. Name this Civil War general.

2. These siblings taught at and are buried at West Point. Name them.

3. This East Tennessee guerrilla was hanged in October 1865. Name him.

4. A single cannon shot disabled a Union gunboat killing over 120 men in 1862. Name the gunboat.

5. Name the fictional Confederate General who is the focus of a 1960’s novel in which two hippie types meander around San Francisco and coastal California.



Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, March 15.

Good Luck!

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I want to change (4) to the CS gunboat SPRAY still INCORRECT

[samgrant]

Here are the answers for Week 5:

1. Hugh Weedon Mercer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Weedon_Mercer

http://www.mercerhouse.com/history.htm

http://www.lewrockwell.com/jarvis/jarvis86.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=Z07...nPHo2c2DxGWrcQ


2. Susan Bogert and Anna Bartlett Warner

http://merrigold.livejournal.com/70134.html

http://www.surfinthespirit.com/music...-loves-me.html

http://www.constitutionisland.org/ci-annaWarner.asp

http://www.hhr.highlands.com/constit.htm

http://www.cyberhymnal.org/bio/w/a/r/warner_ab.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Warner


3. Samuel “Champ” Ferguson

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Champ_Ferguson

http://www.tennessee-scv.org/champ.html

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Fort/2754/Ferguson.html

http://www.theborderlands.org/Champ.htm

http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/ima...?EntryID=F013a

http://pages.prodigy.net/nhn.slate/nh00094.html



4. USS Mound City

http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/9862/stcharle.html

http://genealogytrails.com/ark/arkco/military.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Charles,_Arkansas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Mound_City

http://www.missouricivilwarmuseum.org/1ironclads.htm

http://americancivilwar.com/statepic/ar/ar002.html

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wynkoop/webdocs/moundcty.htm

http://www.thebestlinks.com/St._Charles__2C___Arkansas.html

http://www.oldstatehouse.com/educational_programs/classroom/arkansas_news/detail.asp?id=445&issue_id=32&page=4

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-m/md-cty.htm



5. Augustus Mellon

http://www.brautigan.net/general.html

http://brautigan.cybernetic-meadows.net/tiki-index.php?page=Augustus%20Mellon%2C%20CSA

http://books.google.com/books?id=bHUI0jsPlXEC&pg=PA28&lpg=PA28&dq=+%22gene ral+augustus+mellon%22&source=web&ots=X2WCt4YUe5&s ig=c6D8rBFRkabis61sxkb8VGHGMeI&hl=en

http://brautigan.cybernetic-meadows.net/tiki-index.php?page=A+Confederate+General+from+Big+Sur




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Here are the scores after week 5 of game #51:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 24
Rad2duhbone53 - 20
Susan Sweet - 20


SECOND DIVISION

Gay Mathis - 25
natek1029 - 23
Sockknitter - 23
Hoosier - 14
9thKYCoC - 3
5fish - 1


Thanks for playing. See you next week!