Trivia Game # 47 - Week 6

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 47 - Week 6

The game will go on vacation (to a not even Wi-Fi accessible place) with the moderator after this week, and will return on September 15. Everyone deserves a break.



Here are the questions for week 6 of Game # 47


26. List in order of rank (high to low) the five highest ranking Generals of the Army of the Confederate States on May 1, 1862.


27. A Short Tour of an Unnamed Town: You are standing on Main Street facing the front of the County Courthouse. If you don't get hit by a car, you will see, on the lawn of the Courthouse, two monuments. To your right you see a rectangular slab of marble about 8 feet high and 4 feet wide; it honors General John Hunt Morgan. To your left you see a statue of a Union soldier on a 10 foot tall granite pedestal; it honors the soldiers who enlisted in the Union Army from that county. Interesting!
It's a beautiful day so you decide to take a walk. You walk southwest on Main Street. After about a half a mile you arrive at Monument Avenue on your left. You proceed on Monument Avenue through gates that read "National Cemetery", and begin to ascend a hill. At the top of the hill you see a tall obelisk with what appears to be a spread winged eagle at it's top. This is the marker of the grave of another famous Civil War era person, and former mayor of the town. What town (and state) are you in, and whose grave have you visited?



28. Fill in the blanks:

After Chickamauga, General Rosecrans telegraphed to Washington "WE HAVE MET WITH A SERIOUS DISASTER; EXTENT NOT YET ASCERTAINED. ENEMY OVERWHELMED US, DROVE OUR RIGHT, PIERCED OUR CENTER, AND SCATTERED TROOPS THERE. … WE HAVE NO CERTAINTY OF HOLDING OUR POSITION HERE." President Lincoln wired back "BE OF GOOD CHEER. WE HAVE UNABATED CONFIDENCE IN YOU …". But privately he told his secretary John Hay "Well, Rosecrans has been whipped, as I feared." He then, to Hay, described Rosecrans as behaving "________ and _______, ____ a ____ ___ __ the ____". (Each blank must be correctly filled.)


29. What Pro-Union, U.S. territorial town, originally named for a prominent U.S. government official, changed the town's name when its citizens learned that the towns' namesake had sided with the Confederates?


30. Name the only Civil War veteran to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and the regiment in which he served, and his official career batting average.
(submitted by 20thMass)

Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, September 15. Good luck!
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[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

 

[sarladaise]

26. Samuel Cooper
Robert E. Lee
Joseph E. Johnston
P. G. T. Beauregard
Braxton Bragg

27. Greenville, Tennessee, President Andrew Johnson
28. "confused and stunned like a duck hit on the head"
29. BreckENridge, Colorado
30. Adrian Constantine Anson, 88th Illinois, 339 INCORRECT

 

[Rad2duhbone53]

can't find them all

26. a) Adjutant General
b) General
c) Lieutenant General
d) Major General
e) Brigadier General INCORRECT
27. The place is Greenville Tenn. and the grave is Andrew Johnson

28. "confused and stunned like a duck hit on the head"

29. ????????? INCORRECT

30. ????????? INCORRECT

 

[Susan Sweet]

answers to trivia week 6 from Susan Sweet

26. 1. Samuel Coopoer 16 May 1861
2. Robert E. Lee 14 June 1861
3. Joseph E. Johnston 4July 1861
4. PGT Beauregard 21, July 1861
5. Braxton Bragg April 1862.

27. The statue is to President Andrew Johnson , the town is Greenville Tennessee

28. Stunned and Confused like a duck hit on the head is the quote from Lincoln on Rosecrans

29 Breckenridge , Colorado changed the name after the former vice president joined the Confederats , Breckinridge was changed to Breckenridge

30; Cap Anson batted .333 , He was a drummer boy in the 88th regiment , Illinois Infranty but he is not the only member of the Baseball Hall of Fame . Morgan Gardner Bulkeley , was elected to the Hall of Fame as the First President of the National League, He seved in the 13th New York Volunteers. as a private in the Union Army. He was an official not a player there for has no battting average so I assume you ment Cap Anson. Question should read only player who was elected to hall of fame that served in Civil War. Oh well it's a game. INCORRECT - multiple answer
Thanks for all the hard work Sam. Hope you enjoyed your vacation I sure enjoyed mine
Susan Sweet

 

[texaswildcat]

26. PGT Bearegard, Joseph Johnston, John C. Breckinridge, William Hardee, Braxton Bragg
INCORRECT

27. Lexington Cemetery (Fayette County) INCORRECT


28. Rosecrans has gone up on a foolish affair to Jonesboro to capture a party of guerrillas who are there INCORRECT

29. Breckenridge, Colorado

30. Morgan Bulkeley, 13th New York, he never played a game

 

[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

 

[hoosier]

26. Samuel Cooper, Robert E. Lee, Joe Johnston, Pierre Beauregard, and Braxton Bragg

27. Lexington, KY, the grave of Henry Clay INCORRECT

28. "confused and stunned, like a duck hit on the head."

29. no idea INCORRECT

30. My guess is Jim O'Rourke, whose lifetime batting average was .310. And since 20thMass submitted this question, I'll guess that O'Rourke served in the 20th Massachusetts.

Baseball-related sources list O'Rourke's year of birth variously as 1850 or 1852, which would have made him old enough to have possibly served as a drummer boy in the Civil War. Whether he served in the Civil War or not, O'Rourke holds the distinction of being the oldest man ever to play in a National League game, as he played one game for the New York Giants in 1904, when he was either 52 or 54 years old. INCORRECT

 

[Blockaderunner]

26. Samuel Cooper, R E Lee, Joe Johnston, PGT Beauregard, Braxton Bragg.

27. Lexington Kentucky. Henry Clay. INCORRECT

28. Confused and stunned like a duck hit on the head.

29. Breckinridge to Breckenridge

30. Morgan Bulkeley .000 INCOMPLETE

 

[samgrant]

Game 47 - Week 6 Answers

A word of caution to our players: Beware of Wikipedia.

Now, I'm not saying that that site always has inaccurate information, I expect most of it is correct, but as you know, anyone can go to that site and add, delete, or otherwise alter those entries.
Wikipedia can be a valuable tool for finding information, but it is only that, a sort of easy first step toward reliable info.
Whenever I use it, I try to find at least 2 or 3 other sources to confirm what I need to know. I would not use it as a single source.
The news bureau here in Chicago has a wise axiom for sources: "If your mother says she loves you, check it out".

That said, while I won't say it's good to be back to the daily grind, it is good to be back to CWT and our intrepid Trivia Game players.


Here are the answers for Week 6 of Game # 47


26. Samuel Cooper
Robert E. Lee
Joseph E. Johnston
P. G. T. Beauregard
Braxton Bragg

27. Greeneville, Tennessee. Andrew Johnson (The town is the home for such famous people as Davy Crockett and President Andrew Johnson. Greeneville was named after Revolutionary War General Nathanael Greene and served as the Capital of the Lost State of Franklin. It is the only Greeneville in the United States to have kept the true spelling -- the other Greenvilles dropped the trailing e.)

28. "confused and stunned, like a duck hit on the head."
(I am also acccepting answers with "stunned and confused" as I found 6 sources with that wording.)

29. Breckenridge, Colorado got its name when the town wanted a post office. The townspeople thought they could increase their odds of getting one if they named their town after the nation's Vice President at the time, John Breckinridge. The idea worked and Breckinridge got its post office. But when civil war broke out in 1861, John Breckinridge sided with the south and the pro-Union citizens of Breckinridge wanted the town's name changed. The solution was easy: change an i to an e, and it's been Breckenridge ever since.

30. Morgan Bulkeley -13th New York. He had no official career batting average as he never officially played (tho I'll accept .000 or Zero); he was the first president of the National League.


The final scores for Game 47:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 23
ewc - 8

SECOND DIVISION

Susan Sweet - 27
Blockaderunner - 21
sockknitter - 17
texaswildcat - 15
cw1865 - 12
hoosier - 14
ole - 10
bgl1952 - 8
Dred - 8
20thmass - 8
rad2duhbone - 7
rivrrat - 4
gary - 2


Susan_Sweet had the highest score this week leading the Second Division. Congratulations! I'll PM you shortly with a list of the Fabulous Prizes! from which to choose.

Sarladaise topped the First Division with little competition. Congratulations as well!

(By the way, I am considering dropping the 2 Division format. Please tell me what you think about it either way.)