Trivia Game # 52 - Week 1

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 52 - 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 # 52

1. In what month of what year did Confederate forces under Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson first cross the Potomac River and enter the state of Maryland?

2. What Private made the first capture of a General at Gettysburg? Name the Private and the captured General.

3. This general participated in several of the major battles in the western theater, from Fort Donelson through Bentonville, and in the process was wounded six times, three times in a single battle. Name him.

4. This holiday children’s book, first published in 1867, concerns three little girls and two bearded gentlemen. Profits from sales of the book were intended to benefit orphans of the war. Give the title of the book.

5. Organized by commodity traders of a Western city, this regiment was mustered in in August 1862. Among the battles in which it saw action were Stone’s River, Chickamauga, and Nashville. Name the regiment.


Answers are due by 6 pm (eastern) on Saturday, April 5. Good Luck!

[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

[natek1029]

1. January 1862 INCORRECT
2. Pvt. Patrick Maloney (2nd Wisconsin) captured Brig. Gen. James J. Archer
3. Elliott W. Rice INCORRECT
4. Little Women INCORRECT
5. 88th Illinois INCORRECT (was mustered in in September 1862)

[Gay Mathis]

1. September 1862 INCORRECT
2. Private Patrick Maloney & General James J. Archer
3. Brigadier General Joseph B. Palmer
4. General Lee and Santa Claus
5. 89th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regimentnicknamed the Railroad Regiment INCORRECT
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Gay

[samgrant]

5. Do I hear 90th?

(sorry)


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[Susan Sweet]

1. sept 1862 INCORRECT
2.Gen. Archer was captured in the fighting, the first general officer in Robert E. Lee's army to suffer that fate. Archer was most likely positioned around the 14th Tennessee when he was captured by Private Patrick Moloney of Company G., 2nd Wisconsin
3/Joseph B. Palmer
4.The Christmas holly, by Marion Harland [pseud.] INCORRECT
5. the 72nd Illinois Infantry, "The First Chicago Board of Trade Regiment." INCORRECT



Susan Sweet

[sarladaise]

1. May 1861

2. Patrick Maloney, Gen. James J. Archer

3. Joseph B. Palmer

4. General Lee and Santa Claus

5. Chicago Board of Trade Independent Battery Light Arty

[sockknitter]

1. September 1862 INCORRECT
2. Private Patrick Maloney captured General James Jay Archer
3. Thomas F Toon INCORRECT
4. Living in an Omnibus INCORRECT
5. 89th Illinois (The Railroad Regiment) INCORRECT

i have a queasy feeling this week will be my all-time spectacularly bad input

[samgrant]

Here are the answers for Week 1 of Game #52:

1. May, 1861.

http://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2008/02/06/maryland-heights-fortifications-part-6/

http://books.google.com/books?id=k96hzmOJX6sC&pg=PA141&lpg=PA141&dq=jackso n+may+1861+%22maryland+heights%22&source=web&ots=M KEHlDCBxE&sig=Vt1_hRGtW1JSJspPwmLf_KIQKQY&hl=en

http://books.google.com/books?id=j4kkQAA0jqMC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=jackson+ma y+1861+%22maryland+heights%22&source=web&ots=9q_Cj JB-BH&sig=IY5_GC-4pwsz5GeiJeaVB-nk8nI&hl=en

http://www.simmonsgames.com/research/authors/USWarDept/ORA/OR-S1-V02-C009C.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=8VwMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA372&dq=maryland+heights +jackson

http://books.google.com/books?id=bDyJETtR0TIC&pg=PA139&dq=maryland+heights +jackson&lr=&sig=LalVz0_qB0o3_D2A3lr7H2H49SA

http://books.google.com/books?id=1uxvr9DXrBkC&pg=PA160&dq=maryland+heights +jackson&lr=&sig=zY1L8kD4boWmK7xk841rCc0jVpk

http://books.google.com/books?id=3zrL8hd6-DsC&pg=PA219&dq=maryland+heights+jackson&lr=#PPA22 0,M1

http://books.google.com/books?id=ejR...nnSW8#PPA45,M1


2. Pvt. Patrick Maloney captured Brig. General James Jay Archer

http://www.gettysburgguide.com/ge03807.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Archer

http://library.thinkquest.org/17525/day1.htm

http://www.nps.gov/archive/gett/getttour/day1-det.htm

http://www.hyperbear.com/acw/gettysburg/acw-gettysburg-herbsts-woods.html


3. Joseph Benjamin Palmer

http://members.aol.com/jweaver303/tn/palmer.htm

http://www.tngenweb.org/rutherford/palmer.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=1X1evZu45RcC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=%22jos eph+benjamin+palmer%22&source=web&ots=MXtF8Gx8Oq&s ig=GTjRZaP3vnUNizwSL328ZZQYbFA&hl=en

http://hometown.aol.com/stonesriverd...illowbrig.html

http://genealogytrails.com/tenn/bedford/biopalmer.html

http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=594


4. General Lee and Santa Claus

http://www.stratfordhall.org/santa.html

http://usads.ms11.net/robertelee.html

http://civilwartalk.com/forums/civil-war-history-general-discussion/23941-merry-christmas.html

http://books.google.com/books?
hl=en&id=2gYRAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22general+lee+and+santa+ claus%22&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=Jkieej P566&sig=Rb9B9CGGLWXmvt2TtuzEEhnMsHU

http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1997/vp971117/11150075.htm


5. Chicago Board of Trade Light Artillery (Chicago Board of Trade Independent Battery Light Artillery)

http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/il/military/reghis/ia004.txt

http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/il/military/dyer/chicago.txt

http://civilwar.ilgenweb.net/dyers/art-ind.htm#chicago

http://civilwar.ilgenweb.net/history/ia-004.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago...ight_Artillery



Wow. What an odd week! One perfect score, four others with no more than 3 correct, and
two regular players gone AWOL.

I'd appolgize for 'too-tough' questions had not one player get them all correct. Well, I'll appoligize anyway. Sorry.

Congrats to Sarladaise. Great work!




Gay Mathis moves up to the first Division after her high (and perfect) score in Game #51.


Here are the scores for game #52, after Week 1:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 5
Gay Mathis - 3
Susan Sweet - 2
Rad2duhbone53 -

SECOND DIVISION

Sockknitter - 1
natek1029 - 1
Hoosier -


Thanks for playing. See you next week!