Trivia Game # 52 - Week 4

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 52 - Week 4


Here are the questions for Week 4 of Game #52:

1. A Colonel, he was passed over for promotion to permanent command of the Stonewall Brigade in favor of a Major. Name him (the Colonel).

2. It was variously a racing schooner, a slave ship, a gunboat, and a hospital ship. What was it’s name?

3. This “fire-eater”, who while a congressman engaged in a brawl on the House floor, was mortally wounded at Cold Harbor. Name him.

4. What Confederate cabinet member was born in a “duchy"?

5. This medicine, which contained a high level of a toxic heavy metal, was commonly prescribed during the war for a variety of maladies. What was it called?


Answers are due by 6:00 pm (eastern) on Saturday, April 26.

Good Luck!

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[natek1029]

1. Andrew J. Grigsby
2. USS Wanderer
3. Lawrence M. Kiett
4. Christopher Memminger
5. Calomel

[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.


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[Rad2duhbone53]

1. Andrew J. Grigsby
2. (USS) Wanderer
3.Laurence M. Keitt
4. Christopher Memminger
5. Blue Mass

[samgrant]

Another bump.

[sarladaise]

1. Andrew J. Grigsby

2. USS Wanderer

3. Laurence Massillon Keitt

4. Christopher Gustavus Memminger

5. Blue Mass

[Oxkern]

1. Andrew Jackson Grigsby

2. USS Wanderer (1857)

3. Laurence Keitt

4. Christopher Gustavus Memminger - first CSA Treasury Secretary, born 1803 in the Duchy of Württemburg (which became a kingdom in 1805)

5. Blue mass

[Gay Mathis]

1. Colonel Andrew Jackson Grigsby
2. Wanderer
3. Laurence Massillon Keitt
4. Christopher Gustavus Memminger
5. Calomel
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Gay

[sockknitter]

1. Andrew Jackson Grigsby
2. USS Wanderer
3. Laurence Massillon Keitt
4. Christopher Gustavus Memminger
5. calomel

[Susan Sweet]

1.Andrew Jackson Grigsby
2.USS Ben Morgan INCORRECT

3.Laurence M. Keitt

4. Secretary of the Treasury C. G. Memminger

5. . Blue mass, a pill or syrup in which mercury is the main ingredient, was prescribed throughout the 1800s for numerous conditions including constipation, depression, child-bearing and toothaches.[28