Trivia Game # 53 - Week 3

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 53 - Week 3



Here are the questions for Week 3 of Game # 53

1. Post-war, this cavalryman kept of pack of greyhounds which he used for hunting. Name him.

2. Built on consignment to a Confederate agent, two ironclad warships were seized by the British government in 1863. What were the two sister ships to be named in the Confederate navy?

3. Buried at Arlington Cemetery, this sculptor was famous for statues of Abraham Lincoln and David Farragut, among others. Name the sculptor.

4. A popular entertainer of the day, his costume resembled that of a famous American icon. He financed a monument to Union soldiers in a Northwest Pennsylvania town where he lived. Name him.

5. When the war began. he enlisted as a private in infantry regiment. He would record the last words of a famous Civil War general. Post-war he became the president of a prominent professional society. Name him.



Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, May 31. Good Luck!

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[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

[natek1029]

1. George Armstrong Custer
2. The NORTH CAROLINA and the TEXAS INCORRECT
3. Augustus Saint-Gaudens INCORRECT
4. Dan Rice
5. Martin T. McMahon INCORRECT

[sockknitter]

1. General Eugene A. Carr (yep, he's another one)
2. CSS North Carolina and CSS Mississippi
3. Vinita/Lavinia/Vinnie Ream Hoxie
4. “Yankee Dan” Rice (born Daniel McLaren)
5. Dr. Hunter Holmes McGuire

[Rad2duhbone53]

1.Dabney Herndon Maury (him too)
2.CSS North Carolina/ CSS Mississippi
3.Vinnie Ream Hoxie
4. ????????? INCORRECT
5.Martin Thomas McMahon INCORRECT

[Gay Mathis]

1. James H. Kelley (On Custer's staff with the 7th, inherited his hounds)
2. CSS Mississippi and the CSS North Carolina
3. Lavinia Ellen Ream Hoxie (Vinnie Ream Hoxie)
4. Dan Rice
5. Hunter Holmes McGuire
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Gay

[Susan Sweet]

1. Eugene Asa Carr

2.HMS Scorpion (Turret Ship, 1865-1903).
Originally intended to be CSS North Carolina; and
was also briefly known as Egyptian El Tousson. HMS Wivern (Turret Ship, 1865-1922).
Originally intended to be CSS Mississippi.
Also briefly known as Egyptian El Monassir




3.Vinnie Ream Hoxie

4. Joseph Jefferson INCORRECT (but curiously, Jefferson, at the age of 4, once performed with T. D. Rice the blackface minstrel from whom Dan Rice took his name)

5. Hunter McGuire

[Oxkern]

1. George Armstrong Custer

2. North Carolina; Mississipi

3. Vinnie Ream Hoxie

4. ? INCORRECT

5. ? INCORRECT

[hoosier]

1. George Armstrong Custer

2. the North Carolina and the Mississippi

3. Vinnie Ream Hoxie

4. --- INCORRECT

5. Hunter McGuire

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 3 of Game #53:


1. George Armstrong Custer (whoops, I hadn’t realized so many cavalrymen dug greyhounds. Actually, I was prepared to accept Carr, but on further investigation, I find Maury also qualifies, Kelly too.)

http://www.cogreyco.org/greyhounds.html

http://www.friendsofgreyhounds.org/faq.html

http://www.wonderlandgreyhound.com/history.html

http://www.gpahouston.org/breed.htm



2. CSS North Carolina and CSS Mississippi

http://history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-s/scorpn7.htm

http://history.navy.mil/photos/sh-fornv/uk/uksh-w/wivern.htm

http://www.acws.co.uk/archives/history/laird.htm

http://www.rapiermedia.net/acwnaval/sotw2/ships/skorpion.html

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/civil-war1.htm

http://navalwarfare.blogspot.com/2007/07/hms-wivern.html

http://www.csa-dixie.com/liverpool_dixie/rams.htm



3. (Lavinia Ellen) Vinnie Ream (Hoxie)

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

http://www.vinnieream.com/

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/vrhoxie.htm

http://www.awomanaweek.com/ream_hoxie.htm

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Aegean/6732/files/journal_ream.html

http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/special/ream_vinnie.cfm

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=2295

http://www.essortment.com/all/americansculpto_rcrn.htm



4. Dan Rice (Daniel McLaren)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7448469

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1865/grants-birthplace.htm

http://www.clown-ministry.com/History/Dan-Rice.html

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

http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/19062

http://www.amazon.com/Dan-Rice-Famous-Youve-Never/dp/1891620576

http://www.trivia-library.com/b/biography-of-famous-american-clown-dan-rice-part-2.htm



5. Hunter Holmes McGuire (recorded the “Over the river … “ words of Gen. Jackson. He later became president of the American Medical Association)

http://members.aol.com/CWSurgeon0/jdeth.html

http://www.innominatesociety.com/Articles/Hunter%20Holmes%20McGuire.htm

http://www.huntermcguire.goellnitz.org/biography.html

http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/medicine/cwsurgeon/mcguire.cfm

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

http://www.innominatesociety.com/Articles/Hunter%20Holmes%20McGuire.htm

http://members.aol.com/CWSurgeon0/bio.html



Halfway home in Game # 53.

Gay Mathis and Sockknitter get perfect scores this week.


Here are the scores after Week 3 of game #53:

FIRST DIVISION

Gay Mathis - 15
Rad2duhbone53 - 12
Susan Sweet - 4
Sarladaise -

SECOND DIVISION

Sockknitter - 14
Hoosier - 12
natek1029 - 11
Oxkern - 10




Thanks for playing. See you next week!

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