Trivia Game # 59 - Week 1

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 59 - Week 1


Time to begin a new game. New players are welcome to join the game at any time, but the first week of any game is always an especially good time to join.


Here are the questions for Week 1 of Game # 59


1. Before the Civil War, this Mexican War veteran killed the brother of a future Confederate general; he was tried for murder and acquitted. He was a colonel of an infantry regiment which fought at First Manassas. He subsequently raised and led a cavalry regiment. A noted author himself, his great-grandson would win a prestigious award for literature. Name the colonel.



2. Attendees at a convention of border states, held in late May of 1861, were from which states?



3. He was captured at Harper's Ferry but paroled in time to see action at Gettysburg. Later he commanded a USCT regiment. Before the war he attended a school which Barack Obama had also attended. Name him.



4. What high Confederate official, who was present at Lee's surrender at Appomattox had been, before the war, a federal district attorney who prosecuted a future Union general?



5. What Confederate officer and one time assistant to Thomas J. Jackson later became the head of a U.S. commission dealing with a certain type of animal?



Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, March 7. Good Luck!

 

[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

 

[sarladaise]

1. William Clark Falkner
2. Kentucky, Missouri, Tennessee
3. Samuel Chapman Armstrong
4. Robert Ould
5. Marshall McDonald

 

[samgrant]

Re-bumping.

 

[Larry]

Trivia Answers

1) William Clark Falkner
2) Kentucky, Missouri and Tennessee
3) I keep getting nothing! INCORRECT
4) Robert Ould
5) Once again - NOTHING! INCORRECT
Larry Gebing

 

[hoosier]

Looks like I'm going to get off to a rough start in this game. I can't even take a guess at # 1, 3, or 5. Yes you are, INCORRECT x 5

2. Missouri and Kentucky. They expected delegates from other states, but they never showed up.

4. Col. Charles Marshall

 

[Oxkern]

1. Col. William Clark Falkner

2. Missouri; Kentucky; Tennessee

3. Samuel C. Armstrong

4. Charles Marshall INCORRECT

5. ? INCORRECT

 

[sockknitter]

1. William Clark Falkner
2. Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia INCORRECT
3. Morris Brown Jr. INCORRECT
4. James Ronald Chalmers INCORRECT
5. unanswered INCORRECT

 

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 1 of Game #59:


1. William Clark Falkner

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mscivilw/history/rangers.htm

http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/falkner_william_clark/index.html

http://www.mississippiscv.org/MS_Units/1st_Regt_MS_Partisan_Rangers.htm

http://www.mswritersandmusicians.com/writers/william-clark-falkner.html

http://myweb.wvnet.edu/~jelkins/lp-2001/falkner.html

http://books.google.com/books?id=02aXWdVpXsIC&pg=PA201&lpg=PA201&dq=falkner+%227th+mississippi+cavalry%22&source=web&ots=LPEu6wONSV&sig=VovY9lfmY-0WxIwtR9uWb3H3RD8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=2&ct=result

http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/faulknersite/faulknersite/family/family.html


2. Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee

http://lincoln.lib.niu.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/getobject.pl?c.2682:14.lincoln

http://www.researchonline.net/kycw/unit165.htm

http://books.google.com/books?id=9IN2AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA87&lpg=PA87&dq=tennessee+missouri+kentucky+%22border+states+convention%22&source=web&ots=iYpRoMvexN&sig=OsdBLKI51KlbFmxylRtAq6wtCmY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result

http://books.google.com/books?id=GNNt4aWpVAQC&pg=PA233&lpg=PA233&dq=frankfort+tennessee+%22border+state+convention%22&source=web&ots=EGPJ5455Zg&sig=Dyy-gIj_u2szBbYrvIzEql3PSZc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result

http://books.google.com/books?id=pTOSA8UjZW0C&pg=PA133&lpg=PA133&dq=frankfort+tennessee+%22border+states+convention%22&source=bl&ots=fc3Cfe1kVC&sig=UGQaIxEum-NhmRwkKer8bjveiBE&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=7&ct=result

http://books.google.com/books?id=opgCzjl6bCcC&pg=RA1-PA87&lpg=RA1-PA87&dq=tennessee+missouri+kentucky+%22border+states+convention%22&source=web&ots=TyrFMV3yqx&sig=OHiEP_P9LusNQX59CB_owQM10_A&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result

http://books.google.com/books?id=B7ITAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA81&lpg=PA81&dq=tennessee+missouri+kentucky+%22border+states+convention%22&source=web&ots=bleAeJ9iUt&sig=DuL8C_xytEI7uFZZoiKeQ52QcF0&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=3&ct=result



3. Samuel Chapman Armstrong

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_C._Armstrong

http://www.answers.com/topic/samuel-turell-armstrong

http://www.bookrags.com/biography/samuel-chapman-armstrong/

http://www.famousamericans.net/samuelchapmanarmstrong/

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Punahou-School

http://books.google.com/books?id=RM...X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPA119,M1

http://books.google.com/books?id=RMxBAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA89&lpg=PA89&dq=gettysburg++%22Samuel+chapman+armstrong%22&source=bl&ots=YyAEKq_WEh&sig=dDHTZCP62VYtuU9u5P1L0cfKZx8&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result


4. Robert Ould

http://law.jrank.org/pages/2555/Daniel-Sickles-Trial-1859.html

http://www.civilwarreference.com/people/index.php?peopleID=310

http://www.mdgorman.com/Prisons/robert_ould_amnesty_file.htm

http://www.artfact.com/auction-lot/large-bold-signature-of-robert-ould-ould,-robert-1-c-7p3cu5ostk



5. Marshall McDonald became U.S. Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries.

http://longstreetscommand.org/McDonald.html

http://www.electricscotland.com/webclans/m/macdonald/glengarry17.htm

http://www.vmi.edu/uploadedFiles/Archives/Civil_War/New_Market/Clark_Photo_Album/ClarkPhotoAlbum.pdf

http://www1.vmi.edu/archives/images/Clark_album/gbcfr048.html



Hey, they weren't that hard!


Here are the scores after Week 1 of game #59:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 5
Rad2duhbone53 - 0
natek1029 - 0
Susan Sweet - 0


SECOND DIVISION

Larry - 3
Oxkern - 3
Sockknitter - 1
Hoosier - 0
EMPOWERS - 0
hurryuphill - 0


Thanks for playing. See you next week!

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