Trivia Code Name 7-28-16

[Trivia Master]

From the middle of 1863 until the end of the war, telegraphers used eight code words for Abraham Lincoln, which are listed below.

One of the eight listed below is incorrect. Which code word was not used for Abraham Lincoln?

1. Bologna
2. Bolivia
3. Chile
4. Ida
5. Ink
6. Irving
7. Ingress
8. Ingrate

credit: @chellers

 

[Reb]

My answer is Chile, Chellers.

In the No. 1 Cipher, code words, or "arbitraries," for the "President of the United States" included "Bologna" and "Bolivia." Other arbitraries for President Lincoln in the No. 1 Cipher included "Ida," "Ink," "Irving," "Ingress," "Ingrate," and "Ingot."

http://www.c3teachers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Anatomy-of-a-Cipher.pdf

 

[GELongstreet]

Should be Chile as all the others were used. However Ida was, at least once in 63, used for Baltimore, too.

 

[truthckr]

used from mid-1863 through the end of the war, arbitraries for Lincoln included "Bologna," "Bolivia," "Ida," "ink," "Irving," "ingress," "ingrate," and "ingot." Only the cipher telegrapher would know that any of those eight arbitraries referred to President Lincoln

The answer is Chile was not used for A. Lincoln.

 

[Stony]

3. Chile
source-https://blog.decodingthecivilwar.org/tag/telegraph/page/2/

 

[Copperhead-mi]

3. Chile

 

[JohnDLittlefield]

Chile was NOT a code word for the President. The correct eighth code word was 'Ingot.'
source: http://www.c3teachers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Anatomy-of-a-Cipher.pdf

 

[ErnieMac]

Chile.

 

[MRB1863]

3. Chile

 

[FarawayFriend]

Taking a furlough from my self-prescribed furlough, hahaa ...

Could not resist to answer this one:

https://blog.decodingthecivilwar.org/tag/telegraph/page/2/

Chile is not included in this list, so it was not a code word used for Pres. Lincoln.

 

[Brenal]

Chile

 

[UCVRelics]

From the middle of 1863 until the end of the war, telegraphers used eight code words for Abraham Lincoln, which are listed below.

One of the eight listed below is incorrect. Which code word was not used for Abraham Lincoln?

1. Bologna
2. Bolivia
3. Chile Not one of Lincoln's code names.
4. Ida
5. Ink
6. Irving
7. Ingress
8. Ingrate

Chile is not one of Lincoln's code names the missing one is Ingot

 

[donna]

The recent questions have been very hard,

In looking I found these Code names for Lincoln: Ida, India, Irving, Ingrate and Ingot.

So don't know from list which one it couldn't be. But thought I would try to answer by proving code names I have found for Lincoln.

Edit - You narrowed it down some, but not all the way to the correct answer.

Hoosier

 

[Wallyfish]

3 Chile was not used as an Abe code name.

The 8th code word should be ingot.

From
http://www.c3teachers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Anatomy-of-a-Cipher.pdf

I also found that the name Adrian was also used for Abe. Interesting question.

 

[lelliott19]

3. Chile was NOT a code work used to indicate Abraham Lincoln.

"In Cipher 1, used from mid-1863 through the end of the war, arbitraries for Lincoln included "Bologna," "Bolivia," "Ida," "ink," "Irving," "ingress," "ingrate," and "ingot." Only the cipher telegrapher would know that any of those eight arbitraries referred to President Lincoln." https://blog.decodingthecivilwar.org/tag/militarytelegraph/

 

[MaryDee]

Been spending the last two days fighting with search engines, with no luck. I did find a facsimile of a handwritten list of code names, so I know that the first two above are correct. However, the code names used on that list are in pairs, and for each person the pairs begin with the same letter of the alphabet. I'm therefore going to make a wild guess that #3, Chile, is the incorrect one, and that the correct alternative begins with "I."

 

[57th Indiana Infantry]

3. Chile
Eighth word was Ingot

 

[Montana Territory]

"Chile" was not used, and "Ingot" is missing for Cipher 1, codes used from 1863 to 1865.
Also, the codes for the President in Cipher 9, used from late 1862 to mid-1864, were "Adam" and "Asia".

https://blog.decodingthecivilwar.org/2016/06/24/keeping-secrets-part-1-arbitraries/
https://blog.decodingthecivilwar.org/tag/militarytelegraph/page/2/
https://blog.decodingthecivilwar.org/category/uncategorized/page/2/

 

[CheathamHill]

Another tough question! Nice job.

The Answer to which one was NOT a code name : 3.Chile

http://www.c3teachers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Anatomy-of-a-Cipher.pdf

In the No. 1 Cipher, code words, or "arbitraries," for the "President of the United States" included
"Bologna" and "Bolivia." Other arbitraries for President Lincoln in the No. 1 Cipher included "Ida," "Ink,"
"Irving," "Ingress," "Ingrate," and "Ingot."

Very cool article.

 

[sarladaise]

Chile