Trivia 6-16-17 Nicknames & Bonus

[Trivia Master]

What are the 3 nicknames for the State of Illinois???

credit: @JohnW.

Bonus: Where was "Camp Misery" located?

credit: @JOHN42768

 

[kholland]

Here are 4

• Land of Lincoln (currently used on license plates)
• Prairie State
• Corn State
• Garden of the West

Camp Misery was a Union camp located on the Virginia peninsula on a bank of the Rappahannock
River and was established in 1861.

 

[Reb]

I found 5 nicknames for Illinois, take your pick of 3.

• Land of Lincoln
• Prairie State
• Corn State
• Garden of the West
• Egypt
• Sucker State

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_nicknames

https://books.google.com/books?id=r...3 nicknames for the State of Illinois&f=false

I found two Camp Misery's. One in Virginia, one in Illinois

Ship Point Road - Virginia, near Yorktown

Camp Butler, aka Camp Misery, located about six miles northeast of Springfield, west of the current site of Camp Butler National Cemetery near Riverton.

https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00209/
http://illinoistimes.com/article-5015-camp-misery.html

 

[Wallyfish]

Regular question.

The Prairie State
Land of Lincoln
The Corn State

The source for my answers also show the following nicknames.
The Garden of the West, The Sucker State and Egypt. But I have heard of the 3 in my answer.

http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/il_intro.htm

Bonus. Camp Misery is located in Stafford County, Virginia.

Camp Misery is located on the Virginia Peninsula located in a swampy area on the Ship Point road. It is near the The Rappahannock River. James Madison University and the Stafford County School System have begun to excavate a street located in Camp Butler (Misery) looking for clues to Civil War life.

 

[Stony]

1. Land of Lincoln
2. Prairie State
3. Corn State
source-wiki

Bonus- Camp Misery, located off the bank of the Rappahannock River, was a Union Camp established in 1861. It was located more specifically on Ship Port Road, York County, Virginia.
source-https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00209/

 

[captaindrew]

nicknames for Illinois - Land of Lincoln, Prairie State, Corn State, Garden of the West.

 

[FarawayFriend]

Regular question:

Hmm, I have even found four nicknames (although I only actively knew of "Land of Lincoln").
The four nicknames I found are

• Land of Lincoln
• Prairie State
• Corn State
• Garden of the West / Garden State

http://www.inspirational-quotes-short-funny-stuff.com/illinois-state-motto.html

 

[captaindrew]

Bonus - Camp Misery was located on the Virginia Peninsula on the banks of the Rappahannock River, York County, Ship Point Road.

 

[Schwallanscher]

regular:

even wiki got four

• land of lincoln
• prairie state
• corn state
• garden of the west

bonus:

camp misery was located off the bank of the rappahannock river

 

[Copperhead-mi]

Friday Question:
1. Land of Lincoln
2. Prairie State
3. Corn State
4. Sucker State
5. Egypt
Source - The State of Illinois

Friday Bonus:
1. "Camp Misery" was a Confederate fort located on Ship Point road in a swampy area of the Virginia Peninsula.
Source - Library of Congress - Civil War Maps
2. Camp Convalescent, a Federal hospital aka "Camp Misery" was located near Shuter's Hill, Alexandria, Virginia.
Source - City of Alexandria, Virginia
3. Camp Butler, a Federal camp that also held Confederate POWs located near the bank of the Rappahannock River in Virginia was called "Camp Misery" by the Union soldiers stationed there.
Source - Camp Misery

 

[Jimklag]

What are the 3 nicknames for the State of Illinois???

credit: @JohnW.

Bonus: Where was "Camp Misery" located?

credit: @JOHN42768

Three nicknames- The Sucker State, The Prairie State, Land of Lincoln
Bonus: Falmouth, VA

 

[FarawayFriend]

Bonus:

Oops, there seem to be at several camps, both Union and Confederate, dubbed as "Camp Misery" - and two different ones both were actually named "Camp Butler"

1) One is Camp Butler in Springfield, Illinois
"Camp Butler, located about six miles northeast of Springfield, west of the current site of Camp Butler National Cemetery near Riverton".
http://illinoistimes.com/article-5015-camp-misery.html

2) Another Camp Butler was also dubbed Camp Misery, but located in Stafford County, Virginia

This elaborate smoking pipe, showing a turbaned man enjoying a hookah, was recovered from excavations at the Camp Misery Civil War camp site located in Stafford County, Virginia. A team of archaeologists from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, the Archeological Society of Virginia, James Madison University, and Cultural Resources, Inc. excavated at this location where a new high school was to be built. The Union soldiers who stayed at this camp over the winter of 1862 clearly felt that the original name of Camp Butler did not capture the reality of camp life. "
https://virtualcurationmuseum.wordp...ercially-made-smoking-pipes/camp-misery-pipe/

3) Then there is Camp Convalescent in Arlington County, Virginia, on the slopes of Shuters Hill northeast of Fort Ellsworth near Alexandria.
"Known as Camp Misery, the poorly maintained camp was replaced in February 1863 with a new hospital camp, situated between Fairfax Seminary and Long Bridge in what is now Arlington County."
https://www.alexandriava.gov/historic/civilwar/default.aspx?id=73457

"The second Camp Convalescent was located south of Fort Richardson in the valley . . . The camp replaced the infamous "Camp Misery" which was located on the slopes of Shuters Hill northeast of Fort Ellsworth near Alexandria. The camp was moved to this site and constructed in 1862."
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/civilwar/hrs1-4b.htm

4) The fourth one is located on the Virgina Peninsula, Ship Point Road, York County, Virginia

https://www.loc.gov/collections/civ...ion:virginia+peninsula|location:camp+misery+%
28york+county%29


I have not the slightest doubt that all these camps deserved the name "Camp Misery".
And therefore to me all Trivia players equally deserve their points who answered at least one of these...

 

[DBF]

Question 1
Nicknames are according to this website: Land of Lincoln, The Prairie State, The Corn State, The Garden of the West, The Sucker State and Egypt. I'm not sure what 3 qualifies for the answer but I believe Land of Lincoln would be #1.
http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/il_intro.htm

Bonus:
According to these sites it was a Confederate Fort that was abandoned during their siege of Yorktown and is located Ship Point Road, York County, Virginia. Originally known as Camp Butler was renamed because of the winter experienced in 1862.
https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00209/
http://www.historynet.com/camp-misery-excavation.htm

 

[adisciu9]

There are many:
Land of Lincoln, Prairie State, Sucker State, Egypt, Garden State of the West, etc.

http://www.inspirational-quotes-short-funny-stuff.com/illinois-state-motto.html

Union camp located on the Rappahanock River, Va.

 

[Brenal]

The Prairie State
This familiar nickname for Illinois dates back at least as far as 1842. Most of the state was once covered with prairie grasses. Today, Illinois continues to pay homage to the prairie. According to the Illinois Compiled Statutes, Illinois has designated the third full week of September as Illinois Prairie Week "...to be observed throughout the State as a week for holding appropriate events and observances in the public schools and elsewhere to demonstrate the value of preserving and re-establishing native Illinois prairies."
Land of Lincoln
This name refers to Illinois as the state where Abraham Lincoln began his political career. This name is the Official State Slogan of Illinois, designated in 1955. In the same year, the U.S. Congress granted Illinois a special copyright for exclusive use of the "Land of Lincoln" insignia. Though Lincoln was born in Kentucky and lived in Indiana before moving to Illinois, it was in Illinois where young Abraham Lincoln began his political career with an unsuccessful run for the Illinois General Assembly in 1832. Lincoln eventually was elected to four terms in the Illinois General Assembly and served from 1834-1841. Illinois was also where Lincoln lived when he became President of the United States in 1861.
The Corn State
An appropriate nickname for a state where corn plays such an important role in the agricultural economy. Illinois is one of the leading producers of corn in the country. The region of the country referred to as the Corn Belt is centered in Iowa and Illinois.
The Garden of the West
This old nickname came about because of the rolling prairies of Illinois and the miles of cultivated fields that made Illinois one of the leading producers of corn and later, soy beans, in the United States. A similar term, "The Garden State" was sometimes heard.
The Sucker State
There are a few of theories about the origin of this interesting nickname. One has it that the name was the result of a comparison between the large number of miners going to and coming from the Galena Lead Mines in 1822 and the fish. According to Malcolm Townsend, in his U.S.: An Index to the United States of America (1890), "An old miner said to them 'Ye put me in [the] mind of suckers, they do go up the river in the spring spawn, and all return down ag'in in the fall.'"

Malcolm Townsend talks about another possible origin of the nickname. Evidently, the prairies were filled, in many places by crawfish holes. Travelers were able to suck cool pure water from these holes using long, hollow reeds. According to Malcolm Townsend, whenever a traveller would happen upon one of these holes, he would cry out "A sucker, a sucker!"

Yet another theory, offered by former Governor Thomas Ford in A History of Illinois (1854), has it that this nickname referred to the poor folk of southern Illinois that moved into the state to escape the suppression of wealthy landowners in the southern states. According to Ford, sucker was a reference to the sprouts off the main stem and roots of tobacco plants. These suckers will sap nutrients from the main plant and are stripped off by farmers and thrown away. In the same way, according to Ford, "These poor emigrants from the slave States were jeeringly and derisively called "suckers," because there were asserted to be a burthen upon the people of wealth; and when they removed to Illinois they were supposed to have stripped themselves off from the parent stem and gone away to perish like the "sucker" of the tobacco plant. This name was given to the Illinoisans at the Galena mines by the Missourians."

http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/il_intro.htm


Bonus:
Confederate: Camp Misery was a redoubt and barracks at Ship Point Road, York County, Virginia
https://www.loc.gov/item/gvhs01.vhs00209/
Union: Camp Butler aka Camp Misery was a training facility, later a POW camp at Riverton, near Springfield,Illinois
http://illinoistimes.com/article-5015-camp-misery.html
Union: Camp Misery, located off the bank of the Rappahannock River, was a Union Camp established in 1861. It was originally known as Camp Butler, but earned the name Camp Misery because of the horrific winter in 1862 that the soldiers experienced

 

[Mike Serpa]

The Prairie State
Land of Lincoln
Corn State
Garden of the West

Eastern Virginia on the banks Rappahannock River. On Ship Point Road in a swampy area.

 

[William G Hendry]

• List of U.S. state nicknames
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

• Land of Lincoln[45] (currently used on license plates)

• Prairie State Official nick name

• Corn State[45]

• Garden of the West[45]

Bonus

Camp Misery
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia




Camp Misery, located off the bank of the Rappahannock River, was a Union Camp established in 1861. It was originally known as Camp Butler, but earned the name Camp Misery because of the horrific winter in 1862 that the soldiers experienced.


Plan of Rebel fort (Camp Misery) on Ship Point Road - Virginia.

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[TinCan]

1. The Prairie State
2. The Land of Lincoln
3.The Corn State

Bonus: either Camp Butler located 6 miles NE of Springfield Illinois or Camp Butler on the banks of the Rapahannnock River in Virgnia.

 

[truthckr]

I found more than 3 nicknames for the State of Illinois.
*The Corn State
*Egypt
*Garden of the West
*The Prairie State
*The Sucker State (an abundance of sucker fish)
*The Land of Lincoln

Bonus: Camp Misery, located off the bank of the Rappahannock River, was a Union Camp established in 1861. It was originally known as Camp Butler, but earned the name Camp Misery because of the horrific winter in 1862 that the soldiers experienced. Near Fredericksburg, VA

 

[JOHN42768]

Prairie State,The Sucker State & Egypt, The Garden of the West, The Corn State & Land of Lincoln, all are listed nicknames for Illinois .
source: http://www.netstate.com/states/intro/il_intro.htm
source: http://www.inspirational-quotes-short-funny-stuff.com/illinois-state-motto.html


Bonus: Credit for Question