Trivia Game # 53 - Week 1

[samgrant]

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. Give it a try, it's just for fun.


Here are the questions for Week 1 of Game # 53

1. This Union spy died as a result of biting his tongue. Name him.

2. Designed by a New York militia general in 1860, this weapon would simultaneously fire several dozen bullets. Though one or more of these may have been purchased by the Confederates, there is no record of its use during the war. Name the weapon.

3. A Union general and Mexican-American war veteran, as a politician before the war he was shot while making a speech and retaliated using a Bowie knife to cut off the nose and ear of his attacker. Name him.

4. What type of fortification takes its name from the French word for an orbiting object?

5. A colonel and brevet brigadier who commanded a Zouave regiment, he was murdered by his son in the twentieth century. Name him.


Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, May 17. Good Luck!


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[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

[Rad2duhbone53]

1. Allan Pinkerton
2. Volley Gun
3. Cassius Clay
4. Lunette
5. Hiram Duryea

[natek1029]

1. Allan Pinkerton
2. Requa Rifle Battery INCORRECT
3. Cassius Marcellus Clay
4. Lunette
5. Hiram Duryea

[hoosier]

1. Allan Pinkerton

2. Billinghurst Requa Battery gun INCORRECT

3. Cassius Clay

4. lunette

5. Hiram Duryea

[Gay Mathis]

1. Allan Pinkerton
2. Vandenburgh Volley Gun
3. Cassius Marcellus Clay
4. Lunette
5. Hiram Duryea
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Gay

[Oxkern]

1. Allan Pinkerton

2. Vandeberg gun

3. Cassius Marcellus Clay

4. Lunette

5. Hiram Duryea

[sockknitter]

1. Alan Pinkerton
2. Vandenburgh Volley Gun
3. Cassius Marcellus Clay
4. lunette
5. Hiram Duryea

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 1 of Game #53:


1. Allan Pinkerton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Pinkerton

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/pqr/allanpinkerton.html

http://www.butchandsundance.com/players/allanpinkerton.htm

http://www.crimelibrary.com/gangsters_outlaws/cops_others/pinkerton/6.html

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10058483@N00/548846947

http://simplebrowser.blogspot.com/2007/11/unusual-deaths-in-19th-century.html

http://www.sanftleben.com/Last%20Words/lastwords-ep-m.html


2. Vandenburgh Volley Gun
http://www.securityarms.com/20010315/galleryfiles/2200/2276.htm

http://www.dave-cushman.net/shot/volleyguns.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Artillery_during_the_American_Civil_Wa r#Vandenburgh.27s_Volley_Gun

http://www.cross-sites.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/WBTS/weapons/strange.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=YBbKtQbbIDIC&pg=PA327&lpg=PA327&dq=+%22Va ndenburgh+volley+gun%22&source=web&ots=UpmaxqkKNw& sig=5F5kvQocwoUdQCnPcsPdCckqgxA&hl=en#PPA328,M1

http://www.ufaqs.com/wiki/en/vo/Volley%20gun.htm

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

http://kms.kapalama.ksbe.edu/projects/2002/civilwar/battle25/scientist.html


3. Cassius Marcellus Clay
http://politicalgraveyard.com/special/attempts.html

http://wofford.edu/southernSeen/content.aspx?id=13492

http://www.geocities.com/rexanna_keats/clay.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=VGa43_hceBgC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=bowie+ear+ speech+%22cassius+marcellus+clay%22&source=web&ots =OYqlwMQZyE&sig=ToMSNNRfCcv30IDi_KH7MABqsJ8&hl=en

http://books.google.com/books?id=hWMBJfauY4oC&pg=PA125&lpg=PA125&dq=bowie+ ear+shot+%22cassius+marcellus+clay%22&source=web&o ts=UqlUE_ljsf&sig=t7v5VnlXj2gx9vH6pvZEH-9dyM8&hl=en


4. Lunette
http://www.civilwar.org/historyclassroom/hc_glossary.htm

http://footguards.tripod.com/01ABOUT/01_dictionary.htm#L

http://www.civilwarexplorer.org/glossary.asp

http://www.angelfire.com/wy/svenskildbiter/madict.html#L.

http://www.civilwarweapons.net/html/civil_war_terms.html

http://encyclopedia.jrank.org/LOB_LUP/LUNETTE_French_diminutive_of_lu.html

http://www.answers.com/topic/lunette?cat=technology

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lunette


5. Hiram Duryea

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6440696

http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/gar_post/duryeah.html

http://obab.blogspot.com/2007/12/when-luck-runs-out.html

http://newyorkcitystatues.com/gen-gouverneur-kemble-warren/

http://www.electricscotland.com/history/america/civilwar/cw46.htm




Here are the scores after Week 1 of game #52:


FIRST DIVISION

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


SECOND DIVISION

Sockknitter - 5
Oxkern - 5
natek1029 - 4
Hoosier - 4




Thanks for playing. See you next week!

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