Trivia Game # 45 - Week 3

[hoosier]

Here are the questions for Week 3 of Game # 45.

11. What Union general had a certain style of facial hair named for him?

12. Who was the "Angel of Marye's Heights?"

13. What branch of the Confederate military service was established by the Confederate States Congress on March 16, 1861?

14. What clergyman became a Confederate artillery chief and named four of his guns Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?

15. (Two point question) When Andrew Johnson was sworn in as President of the United States on April 15, 1865, in what building was the oath administered?

Answers to the questions for Week 3 will be due by 6 PM EST Saturday, March 10.

Good luck!

 

[samgrant]

11. Ambrose Burnside

12. Richard Kirkland

13. Bureau of Indian Affairs INCORRECT

14. William Nelson Pendleton

15. Kirkwood House Hotel

 

[Rad2duhbone53]

11. Ambrose Burnside

12.Sgt. Richard Rowland Kirkland

13.Confederate States Marine Corp.

14.William N. Pendleton

15.The Kirkwood House

 

[aggie80]

11. Sideburns derived their name from General Ambrose E. Burnside

12. Confederate Sergeant Richard Rowland Kirkland, 2nd South Carolina Infantry.

13. The Confederate Navy. INCORRECT

14. Reverend Dr. Pendleton, the rector of Lexington, an old West Point graduate, who was afterwards distinguished as Lee's chief of artillery, and recruited largely from theological colleges. When the battery arrived at Harper's Ferry, it was quartered in a church, already occupied by a company called the Grayson Dare-devils, who, wishing to show their hospitality, assigned the pulpit to Captain Pendleton as an appropriate lodging. The four guns were at once christened Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

15. The Kirkwood Hotel, 12th St. & Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Washington, D.C.

 

[sockknitter]

11. Ambrose Burnside

12. Richard Kirkland

13. Marine Corps

14. William Nelson Pendleton

15. The Kirkwood House (hotel)

 

[sarladaise]

11. Ambrose Burnside
12. Sgt. Richard Kirkland
13. CS Marine Corps
14. William N. Pendleton
15. Kirkwood Hotel, Washington

 

[texaswildcat]

11. Ambrose Burnside

12. Sergeant Richard Rowland Kirkland

13. Confederate Marine Corps

14. Captain William Pendleton

15. Petersen House INCORRECT

 

[ewc]

11- Genl Ambrose Burnside- 'Sideburns';

12- The Angel- Confederate Sgt Richard Kirkland of the 2nd SC Infantry;

13- Confederate Marine Corps, established 16 March '61;

14- Confederate General William Nelson Pendleton- a West Point graduate and an ordained Episcopal minister;

15- President Johnson's swearing in- in the parlor of his suite at the Kirkwood House, Washington DC.

 

[hoosier]

For the first time in quite a while, we have more than two players participating in the First Division. Welcome back, Aggie80.

Ewc and Rad2duhbone53 remain tied for the lead in the Second Division, while Sarladaise has taken the top spot in the First.

Here are the answers to the questions for Week 3.

11. Gen. Ambrose Burnside was noted for his style of muttonchop whiskers, which became known as "sideburns" in his honor.

12. Sgt. Richard Kirkland of the 2nd South Carolina Volunteers, who risked his life to carry water to wounded Union and Confederate soldiers at the Battle of Fredericksburg, was referred to by both sides as the Angel of Marye's Heights.

13. The Confederate States Marine Corps was established by act of Congress on March 18, 1861. The Corps was authorized to have 46 officers and 944 enlisted men, but actual enrollment was never that large.

14. William Pendleton, an Episcopal clergyman who after the war served as rector of the church attended by Robert E. Lee in Lexington, VA, was the one who applied the gospel appellations to his cannon.

15. Johnson was sworn in as president in his suite at the Kirkwood Hotel on 12th St. in Washington.

Scores at the end of Week 3:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise 18
SamGrant 17
Aggie80 5

SECOND DIVISION

ewc 18
Rad2duhbone53 18
Texaswildcat 15
Sockknitter 10
20thMass 6
Ole 6