Trivia Game # 58 - Week 4

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 58 - Week 4



Here are the questions for Week 4 of Game # 58


1. His great-grandfather was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Serving in a regular army artillery unit, he was killed at Gettysburg on July 2. Name him.


2. This Confederate officer got his first name for being born on the same day as a president of the United States (and the date of his election), in whose cabinet his father served. His middle name came from the name of a former U. S. attorney general. Name the officer.


3. What in-law and aide to Stonewall Jackson was tricked by his father into taking the federal oath of allegiance?


4. What slave-owning Union general was court-martialed and subsequently dismissed from the service because of the "disloyal" nature of his statements about the government in regard to the issue of emancipation?


5. The author(s) of this anonymous work, published serially in the late 1870's, purported to have insider knowledge about several of the most prominent figures during the "secession winter" months of 1861. Name the work.



Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, February 28. Good Luck!

 

[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

 

[Oxkern]

1. ? INCORRECT
2. ? INCORRECT
3. Captain George Junkin
4. ? INCORRECT
5. ? INCORRECT


Beaten me this week.

 

[Larry]

Trivia Answers -such as they are

1) Manning Livingston
2) Hate it when I don't have an answer! INCORRECT
3) George G. Junkin Jr.
4) James Gallant Spears
5) See Answer #2 INCORRECT
Larry Gebing

 

[sockknitter]

1. Lt. Manning Livingston
2. beats me INCORRECT
3. Joseph Morrison INCORRECT
4. James Gallant Spears
5. The Diary of a Public Man

 

[hoosier]

1. no answer INCORRECT

2. James Alexander Walker ||

3. Joseph Morrison ||

4. no answer ||

5. no answer ||

 

[sarladaise]

1. Manning Livingston
2. could find no president who was elected on his birthday INCORRECT
3. George Garnett Junkin
4. James Gallant Spears
5. Diary of a Public Man

 

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 4 of Game #58:


1. Manning Livingston

http://www.theoldarmy.com/usartillery/3us_art.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=kStCAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA35&lpg=PA35&dq=manning+livingston+%22francis+lewis%22&source=bl&ots=sbuOurEESJ&sig=qBO2uPOCd2ou5ZTfCvwOAAJYYDg&hl=en&ei=BF-fSaasNqTUMIyAjcUL&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result

http://www.warhorse.org/3rdushistory.html

http://blog.oregonlive.com/oregonatwar/2008/07/july_4_2008.html

http://www.gettysburg.stonesentinels.com/NY/NYstate.php

http://books.google.com/books?id=xdGg_l7F8sQC&pg=PA212&lpg=PA212&dq=gettysburg++3rd+U.S.+Artillery+%22Manning+Livingston%22&source=bl&ots=m60YHZGtgT&sig=KsdxDkx0vzFC3sx3L-DaJ-z8HSM&hl=en&ei=j2WfSbKYBJC4MqDsudkL&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result



2. Polk Grundy Johnson

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nightshade/Folks_Families.html

http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=J020

http://law.jrank.org/pages/7240/Grundy-Felix.html

http://www.ipl.org/div/potus/jkpolk.html

http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgenweb/tn/montgomery/bios/johnson189nbs.txt

http://www.tngenweb.org/montgomery/soldiers/pgjohnsonsol.html



3. George Garnett Junkin

http://books.google.com/books?id=OSp3tt8SNpEC&pg=PA1&dq=%22george+g.+junkin%22

http://books.google.com/books?id=1uxvr9DXrBkC&pg=PA237&dq=%22george+g.+junkin%22&lr=

http://www.simmonsgames.com/research/authors/USWarDept/ORA/OR-S2-V5C.html

http://www.frontierfamilies.net/Family/junkin/family/D2GGJ.htm

http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/sources/recordView.cfm?Content=118/0951

http://www.frontierfamilies.net/family/Junkin/family/C14DXJ.htm

http://southgeorgiarelic.org/documents.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=cAIVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA951&lpg=PA951&dq=jackson+in-law+%22george+g.+junkin%22&source=bl&ots=p3O3AvpkAZ&sig=e5gHrM2RDa5EKuocJWkk5IgfROM&hl=en&ei=ImKgScvvA6H4NPvVpdEL&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

http://www.amazon.com/reader/1412027551?%5Fencoding=UTF8&ref%5F=sib%5Fbooks%5Fpg&qid=1235250429&query=George%20G.%20Junkin#reader

http://uncpress.unc.edu/browse/page/205



4. James Gallant Spears

http://www.southernhistory.net/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6575


http://tennessee.civilwarsourcebook.com/collection/1864-02/1864-02-Article-73-Page92.pdf

http://www.footnote.com/page/795_civil_war_courtmartial_case_files/

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cescott/yanks.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=1p94XzYASDAC&pg=PA732&lpg=PA732&dq=slavery+%22james+g.+spears%22&source=web&ots=_jeFzJZPfc&sig=hakvgRYwg5ScO57mwQL_gdWwSXw&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=5&ct=result

http://books.google.com/books?id=2PSgcaLic-AC&pg=PA466&lpg=PA466&dq=%22james+gallant+spears%22&source=bl&ots=M6NDBzHkal&sig=RzcnSz0IXFMvKmbiNf-MktNj6Ac&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result



5. The Diary of a Public Man

http://cwbn.blogspot.com/2005/07/diary-of-public-man-revisited.html

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,799655,00.html

http://hnn.us/articles/12263.html

# HYPERLINK "http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=3441"http://www.lib.rochester.edu/index.cfm?PAGE=3441

http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0913FF3C5B157A93C4A8178AD85F4D8485F9

http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/moa/sgml/moa-idx?notisid=ABQ7578-0129-12

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-diary-of-a-public-man



A tough week, by the looks of it. I hadn't expected it.

Oh, well!



Here are the final scores for game #58:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 17
Rad2duhbone53 - 4
natek1029 - 0
Susan Sweet - 0


SECOND DIVISION


Sockknitter - 16
Larry - 13
Oxkern - 12
EMPOWERS - 11
hurryuphill - 10
Hoosier - 9
jacobdelamater - 4


Looks like Oxkern is the high scorer of those who have not won a prize this cycle. I'll PM you shortly.

Thanks for playing. See you next week!

 

[samgrant]

Tho no one has challenged #2, I think I owe an explanation to the players, and sarladise in particular, about Question #2.

In retrospect, I believe it was more difficult than I had expected.

The question may have been confusing. as I re-read it, I see it says "born on the same day as". This might have been more clear if I had said "same day of the month as" or "same birthday as". Well I assumed that you didn't take "same day as" literally, but it should have been better worded.

The more important fact is that our intrepid player, sarladaise, in her post did find a big flaw in the question.

She said "could find no president who was elected on his birthday". This alarmed me because I was somewhat hesitant about that clue (and that's why I put it in parentheses). I should have said "some say it was because it was the day of the president's election".

The fact is, sarladise was correct, I think. My question originated from something I had read in "Staff Officers in Gray", which said about Polk Johnson, "Born on the same day James K. Polk was elected, hence the name."

Thinking this was ripe for a trivia question, I googled around and found that source that I gave, which said "Polk Grundy Johnson, the youngest son of Cave Johnson, Postmaster General under President Polk, was born November 2,1844, the day that Polk was elected president of the United States."

So I've got 2 sources for the 'born on the day Polk was elected', but couldn't find any more on the web.

This bothered me, but seeing that Polk Johnson and President Polk had the same birthday, I changed the question, but unfortunately left the 'election day' part in.

I left it in because I knew that in 1844 the national presidential election took place not on one single day, but over two weeks, starting November 1. That is why I assumed (yeah, I sould not assume) election day in Tennessee must have been November 2.

I'm still not certain about this, but I have since found one book in Google bok search, which I can't find right now that says there were four specific days in which various states cast ballots, and Nov. 2 was not one of them.

Mea Culpa


samgrant