Trivia Game # 59 - Week 3

[samgrant]

Trivia Game # 59 - Week 3


St. Patrick's Day Edition


Here are the questions for Week 3 of Game # 59


1. What Irish born colonel was appointed brigadier general after, while held as a prisoner of war, he refused an offer to be released in exchange for a promise not to again take up arms against the Confederacy.


2. Name the Trans-Mississippi battle which took place on the second anniversary of the surrender of Fort Sumter.


3. The son of Irish immigrants, he raised at regiment from Chicago. When he was mortally wounded in battle he told his soldiers not to save him, but to save the regimental flag. Name him.


4. You would expect pizzas to come from these, not Confederate generals. Name the general who did.


5. Paddy's Model-T? Name the St. Patrick's Day battle.


6. What native of Ireland was twice awarded the Medal of Honor for his service in during the Civil war? (Extra question - no point)



Answers are due by 6pm (eastern) on Saturday, March 21. Luck of the Irish to ya!

 

[samgrant]

Bumping the thread.

 

[samgrant]

Clarification:

A question has been received about #2, concerning the actual date of the surrender at Fort Sumter.

Some sources say there was a surrender before the evacuation, others say that was a truce and that the formal surrender was on the same day as the evacuation.

So for the purpose of question #2, take it to be the day of the formal surrender/evacuation.


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[sockknitter]

1. Michael Corcoran
2. Battle of Irish Bend, April 14, 1863
3. James A. Mulligan
4. Patrick Ronayne Cleburn, born March 17, 1828, in Oven, County Cork.
5. HAR HAR The Battle of Kelly's Ford
6. All I can find is Thomas Ward Custer but he was born in Ohio INCORRECT

 

[Larry]

1) Michael Corcoran
2) Irish Bend, Louisiana
3) James A. Mulligan
4) Stand Watie INCORRECT
5) Kelly's Ford
6) John Laver Mather Cooper
Larry Gebing

 

[Oxkern]

1. Michael Corcoran

2. Battle of Irish Bend

3. Colonel James A. Mulligan

4. Patrick Cleburne

5. Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia, 17 March 1863

6. Coxswain John Cooper, US Navy

 

[sarladaise]

1. Michael Corcoran
2. Irish Bend, La.
3. James A. Mulligan
4. Ebenezer Magoffin INCORRECT
5. Kelly's Ford
6. John L.M. Cooper

 

[hoosier]

1. Patrick Henry Jones INCORRECT

2. Bayou Teche INCORRECT

3. Timothy O'Meara of the 90th Illinois INCORRECT

4. Stand Watie, born near Rome, Georgia. (Take it from me - if you're in Dillsburg and you want a good pizza, Roma's is the place to go. ) INCORRECT

5. Kelly's Ford

6. No idea. Glad # 5 counted and not # 6.

 

[samgrant]

Answers for Week 3 of Game #59:


1. Michael Corcoran

http://www.irishfreedom.net/Cultural/Articles/Michael%20corcoran.%20%20Kelly.htm

http://virtualology.com/virtualwarmuseum.com/uscivilwarhall/MICHAELCORCORAN.NET/

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

http://www.thewildgeese.com/pages/corcpt4.html

http://www.historycentral.com/Bio/UGENS/USACorcoran.html



2. Irish Bend (aka Nerson's Woods, Franklin)

http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/la007.htm

http://www.americancivilwar.com/statepic/la/la007.html

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

http://ny131st.tripod.com/131hist3.htm



3. James Adelbert Mulligan

http://www.thewildgeese.com/pages/dkiram3.html

http://www.lib.niu.edu/1997/iht429702.html

http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/books/battles/vol1/pageview.cfm?page=313

http://civilwar.ilgenweb.net/history/023.html

http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=2190

http://www.picturehistory.com/product/id/19706

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_A._Mulligan

http://books.google.com/books?id=QhoVAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA497&lpg=RA2-PA497&dq=save+flag+%22james+a.+mulligan%22&source=bl&ots=TQwx7X4Ki5&sig=xSROL-VnahcO_mY5ni0yhDNExdY&hl=en&ei=CPW7SeDrHJuqMqS4-aQI&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=10&ct=result



4. Patrick Cleburne (was born in Ovens, County Cork, Ireland)

http://www.patrickcleburne.net/Cleburne-bio.htm

http://www.arkansas-scv.org/cleburne.html

http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=339

http://www.thewildgeese.com/pages/cwpg2hom.html

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



5. Kelly's Ford

http://www.civilwarinteractive.com/This%20Day/thisday0317.htm

http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/pottery/1080/kellys_ford_va_17mar63.htm

http://www.nps.gov/hps/abpp/battles/va029.htm

http://www.brandystationfoundation.com/pages/battle_of_kellys_ford.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kelly's_Ford



6. John Cooper (John Laver Mather)

http://www.medalofhonor.com/IrishBornRecipients.htm

http://www.cmohs.org/recipient-detail/291/cooper-john.php

http://dublin.freebase.com/view/en/john_laver_mather_cooper

http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/citations_1862_cwa/cooper_john.html




If it's any consolation to hoosier, I want tell him that sometimes his answers confound me as much as
my questions may confound him! He often seems to come as close to the correct answer as possible without getting it. (Yes, there was a Bayou Teche Campaign, and Irish Bend was in/about Bayou Teche, but ...)
(and when I looked up Timothy O'Meara, I kept finding Mulligan only a few sentences away)

Now on #4, I can see where Magoffin comes in, wasn't a general, but at least he was Irish, but Stand Watie? (If it's the Italian town angle, the origins of pizza are in Naples, not Rome, just for your trivial information.)

I wanted to use #6 and I do believe John Cooper is correct, but in research I also found a Patrick Mullen who also was a double recipient. But there is a question on them both as to if the 2nd MoH was a war related MoH, and while I did find sources that claimed Mullen was born in Ireland, more sources said he was born in Baltimore. I even found one source which on one side of the page says he was born in Baltimore and on the other side says he was born in Ireland. I didn't want to have to deal with that if someone answered Mullen.

The biggest surprise was that sockknitter, who traditionally is the last to reply, this week was the first!


Here are the scores after Week 3 of game #59:

FIRST DIVISION

Sarladaise - 14
Rad2duhbone53 - 0
natek1029 - 0
Susan Sweet - 0


SECOND DIVISION

Larry - 12
Oxkern - 12
Sockknitter - 11
Hoosier - 5
EMPOWERS - 0
hurryuphill - 0


Thanks for playing. See you next week!

 

[Larry]

On behalf of Hoosier (I'm sure that he needs no help from me) and myself. I feel compelled to state our case.
First. The (infamous, pizza) question states that "You would expect pizzas to come from these, not Confederate generals. ..." Origins of pizzas were not mentioned. (If memory serves me correctly, pizza originated in China, not Naples.)
Second. When I think of pizza I think of Italy which makes me think of Rome.
Third. The patron of Ireland, St. Patrick, was born in Rome as was Stand Watie. (...expect pizzas to come from these [cities named Rome]...)
There, I feel somewhat better, not good, but better.
A point! Now that would make me feel good!
Enjoying the hunt,

 

[samgrant]

Well, I just wanted to somehow put a Patrick Cleburne question in play, after all the theme was his namesake day, without using any of the obvious, well worn Cleburne cliche clues.

While I am delighted with your critique, I find it somewhat of a stretch that both the saint and the Indian general were born in places called 'Rome'. By "these" had you interpreted it as the plural of 'Rome'.

Sarladaise also seemed to interpret 'these' as ovens as her Magofinn did an escape through an oven (or something like that).

I'll admit it was a gimmicky question, but considering the St. Patrick's Day concept, I did expect that considering where the most famous Irish Confederate general came from would make this a fairly easy question.

Admit you had a head-slapping, 'why didn't I think of that' moment when you saw the answer? (OK. maybe not the head-slapping.)