Trivia Game # 31 - Week 1

[hoosier]

Time to begin a new game. The rules for Game #31 will be pretty much the same as those we have been using for all the games played so far in 2005. For those who would like a refresher on the rules, please look at the thread with the rules for Game # 28.

I am going to tweak the scoring procedure a little bit. Since we have several players whom I haven't been able to stump for entire games at a time, I'm going to establish a First Division and a Second Division.

First Division will consist of those who have achieved perfect scores in two or more games. At the moment, First Division consists of Aggie80, Cindyscoops, and Raggedrebel. If anyone else has gotten perfect scores in more than one game and wants to be in the First Division, please let me know.

Second Division will consist of everybody else. Under this system, Sarladaise, who achieved a perfect score for the first time, would have been the winner of the Second Division for Game # 30. Sarladaise is also eligible to compete for the Second Division championship in Game # 31, but if he (she?) gets a perfect score again, he (she?) will move up to the First Division.

I'm hoping that this way, more people will feel they have a chance at winning something.

Here are the questions for Week 1.

1. What distinction did Pvt. Henry Thurston of Texas hold among Civil War soldiers?

2. One of the landmarks of the Antietam (Sharpsburg) battlefield is the small whitewashed church of the German Baptist Brethren. Why did local residents refer to it as the "Dunker" Church?

3. On Jan. 1, 1863, a fleet of five Confederate ships led by Maj. Gen. John Magruder defeated a Union naval force, thus ending the Union blockade and occupation of Galveston. The Confederate vessels were not called ironclads. What were they called?

4. What Union general, court-martialed and dismissed from the Army after the second Battle of Bull Run (Manassas) received a rehearing, at which he was vindicated, twenty years later?

5. (Two point question) The last formal submission of any sizable body of Confederate troops took place at Doaksville on June 23, 1865. What Confederate general was in charge of the surrender?

Answers to the questions for Week 1 will be due by 6 PM Saturday, May 21.

Good luck!

 

[raggedrebel]

1) He was the tallest soldier on either side in the war. (7'7"+)
2) Because they (German Baptist Bretheren) "dunked" people in water for baptism.
3) "Cottonclads". They were river steamers: Bayou City and Neptune
4) FitzJohn Porter
5) Brigadier General Stand Watie (Degataga)

 

[aggie80]

1. This Confederate, standing seven feet, seven-and-a-half inches tall, was the tallest man to fight in the Civil War. (Question 13, Game 17.)

2. Named after the Dunker movement from Germany in the early eighteenth century. The denomination believed in baptism by full immersion, or 'dunking.' They were more commonly known as the German Baptist Brethren. In 1908 the official name became Church of the Brethren.

3. Rams – as the ability to ram a ship and survive was considered one of their strengths. INCORRECT

4. Major General Fitz-John Porter.

5. Stand Watie, the only Indian to become a field general in the Civil War, as a Brigadier General for the Southern Confederacy, surrendered at Doaksville, Oklahoma, June 23, 1865, nine weeks after Robert E. Lee surrendered.

 

[idlewild]

1. Tallest soldier in the civil war, he stood 7 feet 7 1/2 inches

2. Dunker is a moniker for a people of faith that originated in 1708 near the village of Schwarzenau, Germany, along the Eder River. They were called Dunkers because they fully immersed or "dunked" their baptismal candidates in nearby streams, three complete dunkings.

3. Cottonclads

4. Fitz-John Porter

5. Brig. Gen. Stand Watie

 

[sarladaise]

1. Tallest soldier in the Civil War
2. "Dunkers" practised baptism by full immersion in water
3. Cottonclads
4. Fitz John Porter
5. Stand Watie

BTW, I am "the woman from Sarlat", my hometown in France...

 

[texaswildcat]

1. shortest soldier INCORRECT

2. It was believed that the "Dunkers" were the majority of the population around Sharpsburg INCORRECT

3. Cottonclad

4. Fritz Porter

5. General Stand Watie

 

[cindyscoops]

Game #31-Week 1

1. Henry Thruston (7' 7 1/2") is usually considered the tallest man to fight on either side of the war, but Mike Kendra posted on June 28, 2002 "...after doing some research there apparently was a taller man, Martin Van Buren Bates, who fought for the Confederate army and stood 7'11" tall. Both answers were scored as correct."

2. The name "Dunker" referred to the German Baptist Brethren's method of full submersion baptism.

3. Cottonclads

4. FitzJohn Porter

5. Brig. Gen. Stand Watie

Cindy Scoops

 

[bill_torrens]

1. He was the tallest soldier in the war.

2. "Dunker" was the informal name for the German Baptist Brethren, being a reference to the manner in which their baptisms were performed.

3. "Cotton clads".

4. Fitz John Porter.

5. Stand Watie.

 

[hoosier]

Here are the answers to the questions for Week 1.

1. My source indicated that Thurston, at 7' 7 1/2", was the tallest soldier to serve in either army during the Civil War. And lest anybody think he didn't look tall enough already, Thurston was prone to wear a stovepipe hat that made him look even taller. Evidently this question was asked in the trivia game a couple of years ago, prior to the time I started running it, and Cindyscoops says that at that time there was an indication that there might have been a taller one. But for the purposes of our game, anyone who answered that Thurston was the tallest will get credit for a correct answer.

2. Local residents referred to it as the Dunker Church because the German Baptist Brethren believed in baptism by total immersion.

3. Magruder's vessels were called "cottonclads," because of the protection afforded by bales of cotton on their decks.

4. Fitz-John Porter was vindicated at a rehearing twenty years after his court-martial and dismissal.

5. The Confederate general in charge of the surrender at Doaksville was Stand Watie.

Sarladaise, ever since I saw your board name, I had been thinking it was a corruption of "salad days." Thanks for setting me straight.

Here are the scores after Week 1.

FIRST DIVISION

Cindyscoops 6
RaggedRebel 6
Aggie80 5

SECOND DIVISION

Bill_Torrens 6
Idlewild 6
Sarladaise 6
Texaswildcat 4

Questions for Week 2 will be posted shortly.