Trivia Game # 54 - Week 3

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 54 - Week 3

I'm sure you have all seen those ads for the "hair club" where the guy says "I'm not only the president, but I'm also a client". So I will now admit that I am not only the WBTS Trivia Game moderator, but I'm also a Civil War trivia game player, at CWI. I mention this because occasionally I have noticed that some of that site's moderator's questions were similar to some of those that I had posted. I believe this is entirely coincidental.
What bugs me is when he beats me to the punch on a question that I had intended to use, as he did this week in a question about a reconstruction governor who had been the sole dissenter in his state's vote for secession. I won't give you the answer because at least 2 of our players are also players at CWI.


And now, here are the questions for Week 3 of Game # 54


1. Who was the youngest soldier to be killed at the battle of Sharpsburg?

2. A 23 year old colonel was mortally wounded at the Battle of Five Forks. His brother, a brigadier general, was killed less than 2 month's earlier at Hatcher's Run. Name the brothers.

3. With what words did the wounded Gen. Jesse Reno greet Gen. Samuel Sturgis at the Battle of South Mountain?

4. An 1861 law passed by the Confederate Congress offered, among other things, a two month leave and a $50 incentive to those soldiers, who had previously enlisted for one year, to reenlist for a total of 3 years or the duration of the war. By what name is this law known?

5. These were given to Gen. Winfield Scott in Mexico City in 1847. Scott in turn gave them to then Captain, future Confederate general, Benjamin Huger. Huger gave them to his son Frank in 1860. When Confederate Colonel Frank Huger was captured at Saylor's Creek by his old friend from West Point, George Custer, Custer "borrowed" them. What were they?



Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, August 2.


Good Luck!

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[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

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[Rad2duhbone53]

1. Charley King (13yrs old at Antietam)
2.John and Willie Pegram
3. "Hallo Sam- I'm dead........yes,yes I'm dead- goodbye"
4. The Bounty and Furlough act- December 1861
5. Spurs
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[natek1029]

Trivia Game 54, Week 3 Answers

1. Charles E. King, 49th PA
2. John and William J. Pegram
3. "Hallo Sam, I am dead!"
4. The "bounty and furlough act"
5. a pair of spurs

 

[sarladaise]

1. Charles King, drummer boy 49th PA
2. William J. Pegram, John Pegram
3. "Hello Sam, I'm dead!"
4. Furlough and Bounty Act
5. Spurs

 

[sockknitter]

1. Charlie King, drummer boy for the 49th PA, age 13
2. William Ransom Johnson Pegram INCOMPLETE
3. Hallo Sam. I am dead
4. The bounty and furlough act
5. spurs originally owned by General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna !

 

[Oxkern]

1. Charles E. King (Co. F, Company F, 49th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry)

2. William Pegram & John Pegram

3. "Hello Sam, I am dead!"

4. The Bounty and Furlough Act

5. Spurs

 

[hoosier]

1. Charlie King, the drummer boy of the 49th PA.

2. John Pegram died at Hatcher's Run and William Pegram was mortally wounded at Five Forks.

3. "Hallo, Sam, I am dead."

4. the Returning Veterans' Reward Act INCORRECT

5. Santa Anna's spurs !

 

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 3 of Game #54:


1. Charles "Charlie" Edwin King

http://bradburycamp.home.comcast.net/~bradburycamp/bradbury-cking.htm

http://www.us-civilwar.com/njrebel/picket20.html

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7553200

http://www.carman.net/antietam.htm

http://samilitaryhistory.org/lectures/antietam.html

http://mailman.arthes.com/pipermail/gettysburg/2004-November/004164.html

http://deathaday.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html



2. Colonel William Ransom Johnson Pegram and Brigadier General John Pegram

http://www.vagenweb.org/dinwiddie/simmons/sim11.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Ransom_Johnson_Pegram

http://www.drawthesword.goellnitz.org/tag/pegram/ (Willie looks a lot like a young Dustin Hoffman in that photo!)

http://hollywoodcemetery.org/images/Slideshow-Final-1.swf (See #20)

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6854797

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4663



3. "Hallo Sam, I'm dead!" (also may substute "Hello" and/or "I am")

http://www.vectorsite.net/twcw_31.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_L._Reno

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/chron/civilwarnotes/reno.html

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?
page=gr&GRid=5886901

http://www.paulmartinart.com/GenJesseReno.html



4. The Furlough and Bounty Act (was enacted Dec. 11, 1861 to be effective Jan. 1, 1862) (aka Bounty and Furlough Act, these laws didn't have "official" names in those days)

http://www.pddoc.com/cw-chronicles/?m=200602

http://books.google.com/books?id=2Q74UXpKfWAC&pg=PA112&dq=%22furlough+and+bounty+act%22&sig=ACfU3U1P5bhLaqeG6gOX6zJ6fgRmbWZMww

http://books.google.com/books?id=SXm_WaZ_AVwC&pg=PA51&dq=%22furlough+and+bounty+act%22&lr=&sig=ACfU3U36T2KqXZQPPtGOsNSM5MFsoguJow

http://www.angelfire.com/wv/wasec7/Virginia.html

http://www.angelfire.com/tx/mrcobbs/1stTX.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=I7oxBklnNBYC&pg=PA156&lpg=PA156&dq=%22furlough+and+bounty%22&source=web&ots=paEqcHEIFN&sig=X6b2btG5TcU87eGs2Q1b_AjCD9E&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result

http://books.google.com/books?id=la7Ebvipp8MC&pg=RA1-PA279&lpg=RA1-PA279&dq=%22furlough+and+bounty%22&source=web&ots=ZhUHLXdHI6&sig=YU08ew50YNb-TyUznTzqvySRbn4&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=9&ct=result



5. I was specifically looking for Antonio López de Santa Anna's spurs, but will settle for spurs. Congrats to those who nailed it.

http://custer.over-blog.com/categorie-10023913.html

http://www.norfolkhistorical.org/insights/2002_spring/huger.html

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3905/is_199809/ai_n8814003/pg_11

http://books.google.com/books?id=xMG1wwNXlM0C&pg=PA259&dq=huger+gunpoint+custer&sig=ACfU3U2Da1MLZSg4OU6IZ_HrNbOEhpoNkg

http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/1885119593/qid=1216681957/ref=sib_books_pg?ie=UTF8&keywords=huger%20custer%20spurs&p=S07O&checkSum=9NzHiZBofAxLv1fy4XRhY15KfLSmAqrXIFU6T71WbsY%253D



Lots of high scores again this week. What am I doing wrong?

At the halfway point of Game #54 we have ties for the lead in both divisions!



Here are the scores after Week 3 of game #54:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 15
Rad2duhbone53 - 15
Gay Mathis - 0
Susan Sweet - 0

SECOND DIVISION

Sockknitter - 14
natek1029 - 14
Oxkern - 14
Hoosier - 12
Borderruffian - 4
Ol'WarHorse - 1


Thanks for playing. See you next week!

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